FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 



siNUATA (wavy). Tube-tongue, feteiu 

 species, 8ub.erect, branched, 2 feet high. Leaves varying from 



elliptic with wavy teeth or pinnate lobes, to slender and entire. Flowers 

 dark purple, red, violet, yellow, or various combinations of these tints, 

 often strongly veined with a colour different from that of the ground ; 

 June to September. Introduced from Chili, 1827. 



Salpiglossis is usually grown as an annual, seeds being 

 Cultivation. ^^^^ .^ gentle heat in March, or in the open border in 

 April ; in the former case transferring to pots for greenhouse culture or 

 planting out in the border after hardening. They succeed best in a 

 fairly rich soil, and sunny position. They should be grown in masses, 

 otherwise they look weedy owing to the bareness of the base. 

 Description of Salpiglossis shmata ; upper portion of plants showing 



Plate 202. range of colour; natural size. Fig. 1 shows the seeds, 

 natural size and enlarged ; 2, a seedling. 



BUTTERFLY FLOWERS 



Natural Order Scrophularine/E. Genus Schizanthiis 



ScHiZANTHUS (Greek, schko, to cut, and anthos, flower = slit corolla). 

 A genus of six or seven annual herbs with leaves cut pinnately, and 

 irregular, showy flowers. The calyx is deeply cleft into five lobes, and 

 the corolla deeply cut into numerous segments. Only two of the stamens 

 are perfect ; the style ends in a blunt stigmatic tip, and the seed-capsule 

 is membranous. Like Sal^nglossis, the natural range of the genus is 

 limited to Chili. 



Schizanthus is among the genera of beautiful flowers 



with which the American continent has enriched our 



gardens during the nineteenth century. ^S'. pinnatus was introduced 



in 1822, ,Sf. Hooker i in 1828, S. Grahami in 1831, and S. ccmdidus in 



1843. 



Principal species. ScHIZANTHUS CANDIDUS (white). Stem branched, 2 

 feet high. Leaves deeply and pinnately cut into few- 

 toothed segments. Flowers white ; segments of the front lip with side 

 lobes; Julj^ 



S. Grahami (Graham's). Stem 2 feet high. Leaves minutely cut, 

 pinnately. Flowers lilac or rosy, the upper lip yellow tipped with lilac ; 

 June to September. 



; (pinnate). Stem 2 feet high. Leaves cut into pinnate 



