314 Iberbaceous plants. 



stems slender, creeping; leaves scale-like, fleshy ; flowers 

 numerous, yellow, in forked cymes throughout the summer. 

 S. Aizoon, leaves alternate scattered, oblong-lanceolate, 

 toothed ; stems erect, a foot high, bearing loose panicled 

 cymes of bright yellow flowers. S. album, leaves linear- 

 oblong; stems reddish, erect, bearing loose cymes of nu- 

 merous white flowers in summer. S. Anglicum, leaves 

 small, crowded ; flowers white or pale rose; plant forming 

 dense mats of green foliage. 8. cceruleum, annual or bien- 

 nial ; leaves oblong, small glaucous green ; flowers pale 

 blue in many-flowered cymes, in summer. 8. glaucnm, 

 leaves evergreen, glaucous, linear, and much crowded ; 

 flowers white or reddish in umbellate cymes, on stems 

 three or four inches high. 8. pulchellum, leaves terate, 

 evergreen ; flowers rosy-purple in loose cymes, on scapes 

 five or six inches high. Summer. 



The following are field- or meadow-plants : 8. Telepkium, 

 stem erect, a foot high or more ; leaves oblong-ovate, alter- 

 nate, somewhat fleshy ; flowers white or pink in flat terminal 

 cymes. S. spectabile, as tall as the preceding species ; leaves 

 ovate or spathulate ; flowers pink in large and broad cymes. 

 S. Maximowiczii, leaves oblong-lanceolate ; stems erect, as 

 tall as in spectabile ; flowers yellow, forming flat, spreading 

 cymes, in July ; foliage reddish-green. These may be 

 naturalized on high, grassy banks or grown in moist places 

 in rockeries. 



THE EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



Willow Herb, EpiloMum angustifolium. A tall, erect 

 herb with willow-like leaves and Ions: racemes of crimson 



