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PETASITES PHLOMIS. 



and January, unless the weather be 

 very severe ; pale dingy lilac, in 

 a rather short racemose panicle, 

 deliciously fragrant. Leaves, round, 

 with a deeply heart-shaped base, 4 to 

 8 in. across, usually appearing early 

 in January. Rootstock creeping. N. 



Europe and Great Britain. Unfit 



for garden culture, as it runs very 

 much at the root, and becomes a per- 

 fect weed, but may be planted in 

 semi-wild places, lanes, and hedges, 

 as it is very useful for bouquets in 

 winter. Division, 



Petasites vulgaris (Common Butter- 

 lur). Tussilago Petasites. A native 

 herb, closely allied to the common 

 Coltsfoot, but with great Rhubarb- 

 like foliage, 2 to 24 ft. high. Flowers, 

 in spring ; appearing before the leaves, 

 dull pinkish- purple, in a compound 

 raceme, on stems 6 to 12 in. high ; 

 flower-heads tubular. Leaves, very 

 large, heart-shaped, pointed, irregu- 

 larly toothed, downy beneath, on long 

 fleshy footstalks. Rather common in 

 England and other parts of Europe. 



Exotic plants with less effective 



leaves than this have been lately much 

 used with us ; it however should not 

 be allowed to come nearer to the gar- 

 den than the margins of some adjacent 

 stream, or in a moist bottom among 

 other large-leaved herbaceous plants. 

 Division. 



Petrocallis pyrenaica (Rock Beauty). 

 A small and beautiful alpine plant, 

 when not in flower resembling a mossy 

 Saxifrage ; 2 or 3 in. high. Flowers, 

 in April ; pale lilac faintly veined, 

 sweet-scented, in short few-flowered 

 racemes. Leaves, small, wedge-shaped 

 at the base, cut into three short nar- 

 row lobes at the apex ; the lower ones 

 often cut into 5 lobes ; stems shrubby 

 at the base, dividing into many small 

 branches. Native of Northern Italy, 

 the Tyrol, and other parts of Southern 

 Europe The rock-garden, in light 



moist sandy soil, and among the 

 choicest alpine plants. Careful divi- 

 sion and seed. 



Phlomis ferruginea (Rusty P.) A 

 half -shrubby plant, with branches 

 clothed with rusty purple loose wool ; 

 1 to 3 ft. high. Flowers, early in 

 summer; yellow, downy on the out- 

 side, in partial whorls of 12 to 20 

 blossoms, with rough lance-shaped 

 bracts ; calyx tubular, velvety, with 

 long hairs at the throat, and short, 

 stiff, awl-shaped teeth. Leaves, 2 or 

 3 in. in length, oblong-lance-shaped, 

 obtuse, very much wrinkled, heart- 

 shaped at the base, green and velvety 

 on the upper side, covered with woolly 

 down underneath. Naples. Bor- 

 ders, and fringes of shrubberies, in 

 sandy loam. Cuttings and seed. 



Phlomis fruticosa (Jerusalem, Sage). 

 A distinct-looking shrubby plant, 

 with branches clothed with a yel- 

 lowish down, 2 to 4 ft. high. Flowers, 

 in summer ; yellow, rather showy, in 

 whorls of 15 to 30, either solitary or 

 in pairs, at the tops of the branches ; 

 bracts broad. Leaves, lance-shaped, 

 acute, greenish, ciliated, oval or ob- 

 long, entire or more or less crenated. 

 Found in dry exposed places on moun- 

 tains on the Mediterranean coast. 



Borders, fringes of shrubberies, or 

 banks, in ordinary soil. Cuttings and 

 seed. 



Phlomis Herba-venti (Wind-herb P.) 

 A handsome, neatly - spreading, 

 large perennial, with erect green or 

 purplish stems, clothed with long 

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

 summer ; purplish- violet, in whorls of 

 from 10 to 20 ; corolla downy outside ; 

 calyx hairy, with awl-shaped, stiff, 

 spreading teeth; bracts awl- shaped, 

 ciliated, prickly, longer than the 

 calyx. Leaves, often 6 or 8 in. long, ob- 

 long-lance-shaped, crenated, rounded 

 at the base, leathery, green on both 

 eides, or greyish beneath, the upper 



