PART II.] 



ALPINE FLOWERS FOR GARDENS 



pectinata, which Mr A. K. Bulley 

 describes as follows : 



"At first sight this plant would be 

 mistaken for a mossy Saxifrage. The 

 tufts of bright green foliage are not 

 more than 3 inches in height; the 

 flowers, borne on numerous short 

 spikes, are of a soft cream colour." 



STATICE (Sea Lavender). 

 of the Leadwort or Plumbago family, 

 all dwarf perennials or annuals, chiefly 

 natives of sea-shores and mountains. 

 Most of them bear twiggy flower-stems, 

 and bear myriads of small flowers, which 

 are, for the most part, membraneous, 

 and long retain their colour after 

 being cut. The larger species require 

 least care when in open places in 

 sandy soil, while some of them are 

 admirable for the rock-garden. The 

 best of the larger kinds are S. 

 Limonium, of which there are several 

 varieties; S. latifolia, with wide- 

 spreading flower-stems with many 

 small purplish-blue flowers; and S. 

 tartarica, a dwarfer species, with 

 distinct red flowers. The smaller 

 species, such as S. minuta, S. 

 minutiflora, S. caspia, S. eximia, are 

 good rock-plants. 



STERNBERGIA (Winter Daffodil). 

 Bulbous plants of distinct beauty 

 especially for the garden in autumn. 



The species, as described and 

 arranged by Mr Baker, are as 

 follows : 



Sternbergia colchiciflora, as possessing 

 delicious fragrance, and perfuming the fields 

 of the Crimea, and about the Bosphorus. 

 The leaves are narrow, and appear with 

 the fruit in spring. The flowers appear 

 in autumn, and are nearly 1| inch long, 

 pale or sulphur-yellow. It is found on dry 

 exposed positions on the Caucasian 

 Mountains, Crimea, and is hardy in this 

 country, treated in the same way as S. 

 lutea. S. dalmatica and S. pulchella are 

 varieties* 



Sternbergia clusiana (Ker, not 

 Boissier). Narcissus persicus (Clusius), 

 Amaryllis citrina, A. colchiciflora, S. 

 cetnensis and S. Schuberti are synonyms. 



S. Fischeriana is nearly allied, and has 

 the habit of S. lutea, from which it differs 

 chiefly in flowering in spring instead of 

 autumn. It is a native of the Caucasus, 

 hardy in this country. 



S. lutea. This is the autumn or winter 

 Daffodil (Narcissus autumnalis major) of 

 Parkinson. A plant that flowers freely in 

 autumn ; where not disturbed often effec- 

 tive in its sheets of yellow bloom. S. lutea 

 has five or six leaves, each about \ inch 

 broad, about a foot long, and produced 

 at the same time as the flowers in autumn 

 and winter, and is supposed by some 

 writers to be the Lily of Scripture, as it 

 grows in Palestine. A colony of it on the 

 warm side of a rock is worth having, and 

 when the plant is at rest in the summer, 

 the ground might be covered with stone- 

 crops. 



S. angustifolia. Appears to be merely 

 a narrow-leaved form of S. lutea. It is 

 very free-flowering, and grows rather more 

 freely than S. lutea. 



S. grseca. From the mountains of 

 Greece ; has very narrow leaves and broad 

 perianth segments. 



S. sicula. Is a form with narrower 

 leaves and segments than the type, while 

 the Cretan variety has considerably larger 

 flowers. 



S. macrantha. This, introduced by 

 Mr Whittall from the mountains of 

 Smyrna, is a handsome species. The 

 leaves are blunt, and slightly glaucous, 

 about an inch broad when fully developed 

 about midsummer, flowers bright yellow, 

 in autumn. A native of Palestine and 

 Asia Minor. 



STYLOPHORUM (Celandine Poppy). 

 S. dipTiyllum is a handsome Poppy- 

 wort, resembling Celandine, but is a 

 finer plant. Its foliage is greyish, and 

 it has large yellow flowers in early 

 summer. A plant of easy culture, 1 to 

 2 feet high. N. America. Syn., 

 japonicwn. 



