352 Herbaceous plants. 



pinnate leaves ; flowers large, nodding, corymbose. A 

 desirable woodland plant for shady rockeries and shrub- 

 beries. 



THE CONVOLVULUS FAMILY. 



Tricolored Bindweed, C. tricolor. An annual trailing 

 plant useful for beds or rockeries. Leaves obovate, almost 

 sessile, hairy; stem branching, ascending; flowers large, 

 axillary, sky-blue, with white centre and yellow throat. 

 Raised from seeds sown on the place in spring. Field 

 bindweed (C. arvensis) is a perennial vine growing in bar- 

 ren and sandy soil, and therefore useful in dry situations. 

 Leaves ovate or slightly hastate. Flowers axillary, delicate 

 rose with white centre, very numerous all summer. May 

 be used in vases and window-boxes or to trail among 

 rocks. 



THE POTATO FAMILY. 



Solanum. Many of the annual species have very orna- 

 mental foliage, usually broad, sinuate, prickly leaves, form- 

 ing handsome masses. They are used in foliage-groups and 

 may easily be raised from seeds. Some of our own weeds 

 like the horse nettle (8. Carolinense) may be used for this 

 purpose with good effect. A few others are S. lacinia- 

 tum, S. robustum, S. marginatum, and S. Warsewiczii. 



Ground Cherry, Physalis Alkekengi. A straggling weed 

 from Southern Europe, one or two feet high, with trian- 

 gular leaves and greenish flowers of which the calix devel- 

 ops to inclose the fruit, and assumes a bright red color in 

 late summer. Propagated by means of seeds. 



Petunia, Petunia nyctaginiflora. Annual, or cultivated 

 as such, with ascending stems and oblong or spatulate, 



