HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



Closely allied to Saxifraga sarmentosa, the old Strawberry Saxifrage 

 of gardens, and still closer to S. Fortunei, of which, in the view of some 

 authorities, it is but a form. 



SCABIOSA BBETSCHNEIDEEI, Natal. 



A species first discovered by the Russian traveller Kaskarov in Tibet 

 in 1893, and named in compliment to Dr. Bretschneider, formerly 

 Physician to the Eussian Legation at Pekin, and author of " A History 

 of European Botanical Discoveries in China." 



It was introduced to cultivation through Wilson, who sent seed 

 collected in Western China in 1903, at elevations of 4,500 ft. 



The plant is a hardy herbaceous perennial with deeply pinnatisect 

 radical leaves and scapigerous flower-stems about 1 ft. in height bearing 

 deep rose-coloured flower-heads during September. 



SCOPOLIA SINENSIS, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 176. 



A Solanaceous herbaceous plant 4 to 5 ft. high with obovate leaves aud 

 solitary axillary greenish-purple flowers, having a large green foliaceous 

 involucre. 



A native of Central China, much valued for the sake of a drug extracted, 

 used as a cardiac. 



Plants raised from seed flowered at Coombe in 1902. 



SENECIO CLIVOEUM, Max. 



Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxii. p. 217, suppl. illus. ; Bot. Mag. t. 7902. 



This, the largest flowered of all the hardy herbaceous species of the 

 genus at present in cultivation, was introduced from the Province of 

 Hupeh, through Wilson, and first flowered at Coombe Wood in July 

 1901. 



The bold striking foliage and handsome orange-yellow flowers at once 

 won a permanent and quite unassailable position in the wild garden and 

 the herbaceous border. 



SENECIO MOSOYNENSIS, Franch. 



One of the numerous species of Senecio from Central China, with 

 elongated cordate obtuse leaves and erect flower-stems, on the apices 

 racemose inflorescences of yellow flowers ; it is of little horticultural 

 merit. 



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