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Herbaceous plants. 



THE WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 



Blue Eyes, Nemophila insignia. A very beautiful an- 

 nual with pinnate leaves, deeply cut leaflets, slender stems, 

 and numerous sky-blue flowers in summer. 

 The flowers measure an inch across. When 

 sown in beds it forms dense masses of leaves 

 and flowers about eight inches high. A T . atoma- 

 ria, white with numerous purplish-blue clots. 

 AC maculata, flowers large, white, with a deep 



FIQ. 153. SPOT- TIT TT '7 T 



TED NEMOPHILA violet blotch on each lobe. JN. discoidalis, 



(NEMOPHILA MAC- . 



ULATA). chocolate-brown with white border. All are 

 charming summer flowers of the easiest culture. To be 

 sown in a bed or border early in spring. 



THE POLEMONITJM FAMILY. 



Phlox. Very beautiful annual and perennial herbs of 

 an erect or trailing habit, flowering in spring, summer, and 

 autumn. The best spring- 

 flowering kinds are : P. 

 subulata, the moss pink; 

 leaves awl-shaped; stems 



procumbent, forming FIQ. 154.-MOSS PINK (PHLOX SUBULATA). 

 dense mats of foliage; flowers very numerous, pink or rosy- 

 purple, sometimes white, in small clusters. Fine for dry 

 ground, for naturalizing on barren hillsides. P. amcena, 

 stems ascending, from six inches to a foot high, forming 

 spreading masses ; leaves lanceolate ; flowers corymbose, 

 purple, pink, or white. Rockeries or barren ground. P. 

 reptans, stem less, spreading by runners forming rosettes 

 of obovate leaves ; flowering stems nearly bare, with a large 

 corymb of purple or violet flowers. Common in moist 



