CERASTItJM CHELIDONIUM. 



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species containing many forms, and 

 found in hilly parts of Spain. Use- 

 ful for the same purposes as our now 

 common silvery Cerastiums, but till 

 plentiful it should be grown in the 

 rock-garden, or choice border, in well- 

 drained soil. Division. 



Cerastium grandiflorum (Large- 

 flowered C.) Like C. tomentosum, but 

 less hoary, and with leaves narrower 

 and more acute, and a profusion of 

 flowers ; stems 6 in. high. Flowers, 

 in summer ; white, large, and showy, 

 7 to 15 on erect stalks. Leaves, 

 narrow, acute, hoary, or woolly, with 

 somewhat revolute margins. Hungary 



and Iberia. Rough rockwork, 



borders, naturalization on banks, and 

 among dwarf vegetation in open 

 spaces, in any soil. Division. 



Cerastium tomentosum (Common 

 Woolly C.) A silvery plant, very 

 well known in gardens ; 6 in. high. 

 Flowers, in early summer ; white, in 

 forked cymes, on erect stalks. Leaves, 

 obloug-spathulate, upper ones lance- 

 shaped. Southern Europe. Largely 



used in many places as an edging to 

 the summer flower-beds, and highly 

 useful for borders, running over rough 

 rockwork, bare banks, or naturaliza- 

 tion amongst dwarf vegetation, in any 

 soil. Division. 



Cheiranthus Cheiri (Common Wall- 

 flower). A sweet old plant long cul- 

 tivated in our gardens, and natu- 

 ralized on old ruins, walls, etc., 1 to 

 2 ft. high. Flowers, in spring and 

 early summer ; variable in colour. 

 Leaves, lance-shaped, quite entire. 

 Abundant in many parts of Europe, 



on old walls, and stony places. 



Borders, banks, slopes, etc., par- 

 ticularly the various handsome double 

 kinds, which become shrubby on 

 banks and dry slopes. Seed or cut- 

 tings, the choice double kinds by 

 cuttings. 



Cheiranthus Marshallii (Marshall's 

 C. ) A half -shrubby plant, with erect, 

 angular branches, clothed, like the 

 leaves, with adpressed forked hairs, 

 1 to 1 \ ft. high. Flowers, in spring or 

 early summer; nearly f in. across, 

 deep clear orange at first, becoming 

 rather paler, rather freely produced in 

 a terminal raceme ; petals, with a 

 roundish spreading limb. Leaves, 

 crowded at the lower part of the 

 stems, more distant upwards, and on 

 the flowering stems ; upper ones 

 narrowly lance-shaped, with a few 

 teeth ; lower ones tapering downwards 

 into a narrowly-winged, stalk-like 

 base, becoming more or less spoon- 

 shaped. This is said to be a hybrid 

 between Cheiranthus ochroleucus and 



Erysimum Peroffskianum. Borders 



and the rock-garden, in light, well- 

 drained soil. It is increased by cut- 

 tings, and a young stock should be 

 kept up as it is not perennial, and is 

 apt to peiish in winter. 



Chelidonium japonicum {Japan C.] 

 A poppy-like plant, handsomer than 

 our allied Greater Celandine, 1 to 2 ft. 

 high. Flowers, in early summer ; 

 yellow, large, axillary, stalked ; calyx 

 smooth ; corolla rather larger than the 

 calyx. Leaves, pale underneath, ovate, 

 pinnate ; leaflets ovate-oblong, acute, 



on very short stalks. Japan. 



Borders, margins of shrubberies, or 

 naturalization, in ordinary soil. Divi- 

 sion and seed. 



Chelidonium majus (Greater Celan- 

 dine}. A well-known native plant, 

 1 to 2 ft. high. Flowers, throughout the 

 summer; yellow, 3 to 6 together in 

 a loose umbel ; peduncles hairy with a 

 roundish bract at the base. ^Leaves, 

 thin, pale underneath, pinnate ; 

 leaflets roundish, coarsely toothed. 

 There is a cut-leaved variety very 

 distinct in aspect from the common 

 one. Britain and Europe generally. 

 Only worthy of a place among 



