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pound, glaucous green. Flowers yellowish. Habit bushy. 

 For borders in moderately good soil. 



Fraxinella or Gas Plant, Dictamnus Fraxinella. This is 

 a very ornamental plant about three feet high. Leaves 

 pinnate. Stems upright with terminal racemes of large 

 rosy purple or white flowers. Fine for borders or on the 

 outskirts of shrubberies ; also for specimen plants on the 

 lawn. Strongly scented. 



THE MILKWORT FAMILY. 



Common Milkwort, Poly gala. A very pretty plant of 

 grassy fields and roadsides, growing six or eight inches high. 

 Stems simple, with small linear-lanceolate leaves and one- 

 sided racemes of blue, lilac, purple, or pure white flowers. 

 An excellent species for mixing in lawns or for naturalizing 

 on grassy banks. Fringed polygala or babes in the wood 

 (P. paucifolici) is a dwarf woodland plant two or three 

 inches high. Flowers large, fringed, rosy red. Fine for 

 naturalizing in light soil in shrubberies. 



THE PEA FAMILY. 



Lupine, Lupinm. The lupines are all showy, annual or 

 perennial plants growing in sandy ground or in open woods. 

 The many-leaved lupine (L. polypliyllus) is the most com- 

 mon species. It grows about three feet high and forms a 

 broad mass of rounded, fingered leaves. The stems are 

 simple and terminate in a very long cylindrical raceme of 

 blue, purple, or white flowers. Very fine border plant. 

 Wild lupine (L. perennis) is a handsome spreading peren- 



