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chalk-pits or 011 warm rocky banks in 

 the southern and milder parts of the 

 country. Seed and cuttings. 



Wahlenbergia hederacea (Ivy Hare- 

 bell). Campanulob hederacea. A 

 small, graceful, creeping perennial, far 

 from showy in aspect, with very 

 slender branches. Flowers, in sum- 

 mer and autumn ; pale blue, on long 

 thread-like stalks, drooping in the 

 bud, almost erect when fully expanded ; 

 corolla narrow-bell-shaped, less than 

 4 in. long, 5-lobed at the mouth. 

 Leaves, small, on long stalks, heart- 

 shaped or roundish, bluntly angled. 

 Moist places in Western Europe, North 

 America, and various parts of Britain. 



The artificial bog, margins of 



rivulets, and moist spots in the rock- 

 garden. Division. 



Waldsteinia geoides (Geum W.} 

 A dwarf tufted perennial, 4 to 6 

 in. high. Flowers, in spring and early 

 in summer; small, yellow, nume- 

 rous, usually in terminal pairs. Leaves, 

 numerous, long - stalked, palmate- 

 lobed ; lobes 3 to 5, sharply toothed ; 

 leaf-stalks hairy, especially at the 

 base, where they are dilated, sheath- 

 ing the short erect root-stock. Hun- 

 gary, in shady woods in moist peaty 



soil. Scarcely ornamental enough 



for the mixed border but pretty as 

 an edging-plant to beds of herbaceous 

 plants, or in the spring garden, in 

 ordinary soil ; also good for naturali- 

 zation on sunny banks among dwarf 

 plants. Division and seed. 



Waldsteinia fragarioides (Strawberry 

 W.) A showy perennial, with creep- 

 ing, bright-red, hairy stems ; about 

 6 in. high. Flowers, in early summer ; 

 numerous, bright yellow, about ^ in. 

 across ; petals oblong- ovate ; sepals 

 acute, hairy and spreading, with here 

 and there a little segment between 

 the others, showing a disposition to 

 become 10-cleft. Leaves, ternate, on 

 long channelled stalks, dilated and 



ciliated at the base ; leaflets obovate, 

 irregularly serrated and cut into lobes 

 with ciliated edges, smooth and green, 

 fading to a lurid colour. N. America, 



on wooded hill - sides. Borders, 



fringes of shrubberies, or naturaliza- 

 tion, in any soil. Division, 



Waldsteinia trifolia (Running W.} 

 A dwarf but vigorous plant, spreading 

 about with stout but stubby running 

 stems ; 3 to 5 in. high. Flowers, late 

 in spring ; rich golden-yellow, with a 

 dense brush of golden filaments and 

 stamens in the centre ; petals rounded 

 at the base. Leaves, trifoliate, very 

 deeply cut, rounded at the base. 



Transylvania. A thoroughly hardy 



kind, good for any kind of rockwork, 

 or the margin of the mixed border, in 

 any soil, or for running about in a 

 half- wild state in shrubberies. Divi- 

 sion. 



Wulfenia carinthiaca (Carinthian 

 W.) A dwarf, almost stemless, 

 evergreen herb ; 12 to 18 in. high. 

 flowers, in summer; blue, drooping, 

 solitary on short stalks, in the axils 

 of the bracts; stem many-flowered, 

 erect; corolla tubular, limb 4- or 5- 

 cleft ; segments roundish, upper one 

 notched, lower one crenated ; tube 

 with a swelling above the base. Leaves, 

 oblong, narrowed at the base, doubly 



crenated, stalked. Carinthia. 



Borders, and the rock-garden, in light 

 moist sandy loam. Division and seed. 



Xerophyllum asphodeloides (Aspho- 

 del-like X.)"A tuberous-rooted plant 

 with the aspect of an Asphodel, and a 

 simple stem 1 to 4 ft. high, with a 

 bulbous base. Flowers, in summer; 

 white, showy, in a compact simple 

 raceme. Leaves, of the stem needle- 

 shaped, very numerous, thickly cover- 

 ing the stem, the upper ones reduced 

 to mere bristle-like bracts; radical 

 leaves 1 ft. or more long, and 1 in. wide 

 below, rough on the margin, remark- 

 ably dry and rigid, very numerous, in 



