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5. L. fulgens. A Siberian species from 1 to 2 feet high, 

 with hairy stems and foliage, and relatively large bright scar- 

 let flowers. This is a superb plant, and the varieties known 

 under the name of L. Haageana are supposed to have sprung 

 from a cross between this and the next. There are salmon, 

 orange, red, scarlet, and white varieties. 



6. L. Sieboldi. A Japanese species with immense creamy- 

 white flowers. 



7. L. grandiflora. A large red-flowered -species. A native 

 of China. A handsome plant, rarely seen in gardens now. 



8. L. Flos-cuculi. Ragged Robin. This common wild 

 flower, with deeply 4-lobed deep rose-coloured petals, has pro- 

 duced a double variety which makes a handsome border plant. 

 The flowers are occasionally seen white. 



9. L. Viscaria. A dwarf species, and one of the older in- 

 habitants of gardens. Stems clammy at the nodes, generally 

 less than a foot high. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, on short 

 petioles. Cymes few-flowered ; flowers purple or red, nearly 

 sessile. There is a handsome double variety. A native of 

 Europe, including North Britain, and Siberia. 



10. L. alplna. Another indigenous species. It is a moun- 

 tain plant, growing in tufts about 6 inches high, and quite 

 glabrous. Leaves crowded, linear-lanceolate. Flowers in 

 dense heads, rose-coloured, six lines in diameter, on short 

 peduncles with reddish bracts. 



L. diurna, Red Campion, and L. vespertlna, White Cam- 

 pion, are showy hedgerow plants, 



TRIBE ll.ALSINE^E. 



Sepals free to the base. 



7. CERASTIUM. 



Decumbent densely hairy annual or perennial herbs with 

 small white flowers and bifid petals. Forty species, natives of 

 the temperate and cold parts of the whole world. Name from 

 icfyas, a horn, from the horn-like capsule. 



1. (7. tomentosum. This is the species in general use for 

 edging. Its small leaves are densely clothed with a greyish 

 or nearly white tomentum. South of Europe. 



2. C. Biebersteini. A similar but larger plant with less silvery 

 leaves. A native of the Crimea. 



