242 ALPINE FLOWERS AND ROCK GARDENS. 



MECONOPSIS.— This genus is closely allied to 

 the Poppies, and M. Cambrica is the well-known pale 

 yellow Welsh Poppy, a hardy perennial growing about 

 a foot high, and blooming in summer. The florists 

 offer a double variety of it called /lore pleno. This 

 cheerful plant is not particular as to soil and situation. 

 It will thrive in poor, chalky ground, and will grow 

 on old walls. Integrifolia is a fine newer species with 

 yellow flowers. A culeata has purple flowers in summer. 

 Like most others of the genus it is a biennial, needing 

 to be raised afresh each year. Nepalensis and Wallichii^ 

 the former yellow, the latter blue, are magnificent 

 kinds, but they are somewhat too large for the 

 rockery 



MEGASEA. — See Saxifraga. 



MENYANTHES.—Reievence has already been 

 made to the Buckbean, Menyanthes trifoliata, as suitable 

 for cultivation in a collection of aquatic or bog plants. 

 It has charming white fringed flowers on procumbent 

 stems in May. It does well in moist soil at the water- 

 side, and may be propagated by cuttings. 



MENZIESIA. — One species often included with 

 the MenziesiaSy namely, polifolia, has been referred to 

 in this work under the names of DahoScia and Erica 

 polifolia. Of the others the best known is perhaps 

 empetriformis, now called by botanists Bryanthus em- 

 formispetri. It is a charming little Alpine shrub, with 

 purplish rose flowers in summer, and is quite suitable for 

 the rockery. It likes peat, with plenty of moisture. It 

 may be propagated by cuttings struck in spring under 

 glass. 



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