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and well-drained loam, or in sandy 

 peat, the bulbs to be planted with 

 their crowns 3 or 4 in. beneath the 

 surface of the soil. Separation of the 

 small bulbs. 



Verbascum phceniceum (Blue- 

 flowered Mullein). A handsome South 

 European Mullein, 3 ft. or more high. 

 Flowers, all the summer; large, some- 

 what variable in colour, but usually 

 of a violet blue overlying a yellow 

 ground striped with violet, and with 

 purple stamens, arranged in a very 

 long spike. Leaves,ot the root, stalked, 

 oval-lance-shaped, slightly toothed, 

 somewhat hairy above, and forming a 

 wide-spreading rosette; stem-leaves 



alternate, sessile. South Europe. 



Borders, in well-drained sandy loam. 

 Does not live through the winter on 

 very cold and wet soils. Seed. 



Vicia sylvatica (Wood Vetch}. A. 

 handsome native free- trailing Vetch, 

 with a climbing stem, 2 to 4 ft. long. 

 Flowers, in summer ; numerous, cream- 

 coloured, streaked with blue or purple. 

 Leaves, of 6 to 10 pairs of oval or 



broadly-elliptical leaflets, rounded or 

 truncate and mucronate at the apex, 

 and of a bright pea-green colour. 

 Stipules very broad, lunate, deeply 

 toothed at the base. Britain, in woods 



and thickets. In hedgerows, 



fringes of shrubberies, etc., allowed 

 to trail over low bushes, etc. Seed. 



Vieusseuxia glancopis (Blue-eyed Pea- 

 cock Iris). Iris Pavonia, Linn. An 

 exquisitely beautiful bulbous plant, 9 

 to 15 in. high. Flowers, in the end of 

 May or beginning of June ; about 2 in. 

 across, pure white, with a beautiful 

 porcelain- blue stain nearly J in. broad 

 at the base of each of the three larger 

 divisions ; the spot is margined with 

 dark purple teeth, and is of a fine 

 deep violet at the base; the throat 

 hirsute. Leaves, slender and grass- 

 like, glaucous, 15 to 18 in. long. Bulb 

 small, about in. in diameter. Cape 



of Good Hope. On warm sheltered 



borders, in sandy peat, or sandy loam 

 and leaf-mould; the bulbs to be 

 planted rather deep, say with four 

 inches of firm soil above the crest. 

 Separation of the bulbs in autumn. 



ADDENDA (SUPPLEMENT). 



Anagallis tenella (Bog Pimpernel). 

 A beautiful, delicate, creeping native 

 bog-plant. Flowers, in summer ; very 

 pretty, delicate pink with deeper 

 veins, on slender stalks ; corolla bell- 

 shaped, deeply 5- or 6-cleft. Leaves, 

 roundish, very small, opposite ; stems 

 very slender, a few inches long. Wet 

 mossy banks and bogs throughout 



Western Europe and in Britain. 



In wet parts of the artificial bog, or 

 in any position where sphagnum moss 

 thrives. The leaves of the plant 

 are scarcely discernible, woven here 

 at/d there through the moss, and the 

 delicate rose flowers, large for the size 



of the plant, just rise above the moss 

 in profusion. 



Goodyera pubescens (Silvery Rattle- 

 snake Plantain). An interesting and 

 pretty hardy Orchid, with silvery- 

 veined leaves ; 6 to 12 in. high, when 

 in bloom. Flowers, in summer; green- 

 ish-white, small, numerous, in a 

 crowded spike. Leaves, in a tuft, 

 ovate, with thickish stalks, and 

 silvery veins, which give the plant an 

 attractive appearance at all times. 



North America. Shady moist parts 



of the rock-garden or hardy fernery. 

 Also in the bog bed, and naturalized 

 in shady ditches and in narrow moist 

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