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LITHOSPERMUM LOISELEURIA. 



straight tube and a shortly 5-lobed 

 limb. Leaves, small lance-shaped, or 

 linear, stalkless and hispid ; stems 

 pilose, branched. Spain and South of 



France. The rock-garden, borders, 



fringes of shrubberies, and among 

 dwarf shrubs; best in a deep and 

 sandy loam. Cuttings. 



Lithospermum pttrpureo-caeruleum 

 (Creeping Gromwell). A pretty British 

 perennial, with barren stems creeping, 

 flowering ones erect; 1 tol ft. high. 

 Flowers, in early summer ; reddish at 

 first, afterwards blue, in short, twin, 

 terminal racemes. Leaves, dark green, 

 rough, lance -shaped-acute, gradually 

 tapering at the base, with the mar- 

 gins rolled back, 1 to 2 in. long, 

 stalkless, or nearly so. "Woods and 

 bushy places on chalk and limestone, 

 from Southern England to Sicily, 

 Phrygia, and the Caucasus. Bor- 

 ders, and rougher parts of rockwork, 

 ferneries, etc., or in a semi-wild state 

 in shrubberies, copses, and half- 

 shady positions. I have not found 

 this plant to thrive on clay soil ; in- 

 deed it seems to quite die out on the 

 London clay. Division and seed. 



lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal-flower 

 L.) A brilliant perennial, long culti- 

 vated in our gardens ; 1 to 3 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; fine scarlet, in 

 one-sided terminal racemes ; corolla 

 tubular, divided on the upper side ; 

 limb 5 -parted ; segments of the lower 

 lip obtuse. Leaves, smooth, oblong- 

 lance-shaped, toothed, about 3 in. long 

 and 1 1 broad, purplish beneath ; stems 

 erect, smooth. Native of N. America. 

 Borders, in rich moist soil. Gene- 

 rally this plant will require to be taken 

 up and stored during the winter, 

 though in some districts it survives it. 

 Division. 



Lobelia fulgens (Glowing Z.) 

 Closely resembling the previous one, 

 but differing chiefly by being more 

 downy ; 1 to 2 ft. high. Flowers, in 



summer ; splendid scarlet, iu a ter- 

 minal raceme ; corolla about 1 in. 

 long, downy outside ; segments of the 

 lower lip lance shaped. Leaves, 3 to 

 6 in. long, lance-shaped, toothed, 

 downy, the margin turned back ; 



stems downy, reddish. Mexico.-: 



The same treatment, etc., as for the 

 preceding kind. 



Lobelia syphilitica (Tail-Hue L.} 

 A large species, 1 to 2 ft. high. 

 Flowers, in summer ; blue, forming a 

 long leafy raceme ; corolla angular, 

 with almost equal segments ; stalks 

 hairy. Leaves, stalkless, rather rough, 

 ovate or oblong, tapering at both ends, 

 unequally serrated ; stems erect, sim- 

 ple, hairy. There is a white-flowered 



variety. North America. In tufts 



round the margins of shrubberies, in 

 moist soil, or naturalized near the 

 margins of rivulets or in wet soil. 

 In America it seemed to me much 

 more ornamental and vigorous when 

 in wet places. Division. 



Lobelia Tupa (Tupa L.} Tupa Feu- 

 illei. A noble kind, very rarely 

 seen ; 4 to 5 ft. high. Flowers, late in 

 summer ; reddish, in a terminal spiked 

 raceme ; corolla large, and with the 

 stalks and calyces downy. Leaves, 

 ovate-lance-shaped, stalkless, covered 

 with soft white down ; stems erect, 

 simple, thick, somewhat shrubby at 

 the base, leafy. Native of Chili and 



Peru. A magnificent plant in rich 



light soil in mild districts, and fine 

 for association with the Tritomas and 

 finer herbaceous plants, but not hardy 

 in cold inland districts or on heavy 

 cold soils. Division. 



Loiseleuria procumbens (Trailing L.) 

 Azalea procumbens. A very smaP 

 trailing evergreen shrub, from I to 

 6 in. high. Flowers, in spring ; red- 

 dish, small, in short terminal clus- 

 ters ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 5- 

 lobed. Leaves, about % in. long, oppo- 

 site, numerous, smooth, oblong, the 



