HORTUS VEITCHII 



the familiar Dicentra spectabilis, known as the " Bleeding Heart," 

 valuable for forcing in early spring and for the hardy border. 



D. macrantha, a Chinese species rare in its native habitat, was first 

 met with by Dr. Henry, who detected the herb in a wood in Hupeh, and 

 only obtained one plant. 



Bare on Mount Omi, in the extreme West, Wilson obtained a few seed 

 and succeeded in introducing it. The flowers droop, are narrower and 

 longer than those of D. spectabilis, pale yellow in colour. 



DEACOCEPHALUM EUYSCHIANA, Linn., var. JAPONICUM, 



Asa Gray. 

 Masters in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. xii. p. 167, fig. 29. 



This old inhabitant of gardens, Dracocephalum Euyschiana, was intro- 

 duced as long since as 1699, and is now rarely seen. 



In Central Europe and Southern Asia the species widely distributed, 

 was only noticed in 1859 by Professor Asa Gray to be a variety known 

 to be in Japan. A pretty herbaceous perennial introduced through Charles 

 Maries. 



ECHINOCYSTIS LOBATA, Torr. & Gray. 



Gard. Chron. 1897, vol. xxii. pp. 270, 271, fig. ; Rev. Hort. 1896, p. 9, fig. 



A trailing annual of the Cucurbitacese, native of the North-Eastern 

 States of America, with inconspicuous flowers, of elegant habit and green 

 prickly fruit. 



Flowered and fruited at Coombe Wood during the summer of 1897, 

 and from this material the figure in the Gardeners' Chronicle was 

 prepared. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA C^ESPITOSA, Benth. 



Syns. E. tenuifolia, Benth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4812 ; Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 451 (Notice of Exhibit); Bentham in Trans, of the 

 R.H.S. 2nd ser. i. p. 408. 



In figuring this plant, sent from California by William Lobb, in the 

 Botanical Magazine as Eschscholtzia tenuifolia, a doubt is expressed as 

 to the advisability of keeping one so variable apart from E. caespitosa 

 as a distinct species, and modern authorities, with a fuller knowledge, 

 hold it synonymous, or merely a form of that species. 



GENTIANA DETONSA, Fries., var. BAEBATA, Griseb. 



An erect-growing biennial 1| to 2 ft. in height with dark violet-blue 

 flowers 1 in. in diameter. 



The bearded margin of the corolla lobe suggested the varietal name. 



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