The Garden of British Wild Flowers. 175 



All the British Helianthemums or rock roses are 

 worthy of a position on the rockwork, and the 

 annual kind H. guttatum, is a singularly pretty 

 thing, with black spots at the base of its clear yellow 

 petals. Of the Violets, in addition to the sweet 

 violet, which should be grown on a north aspect, 

 V. lutea and V. tricolor will be found the most distinct 

 and worthy of culture. The Droseras, or sun-dews, 

 are very pretty, but cannot be long preserved in a 

 garden ; nor have I ever seen the pretty Polygalas 

 cultivated with success. The very dwarf trailing 

 Frankenia Isevis (Sea Heath) runs over stones, and 

 looks neat and mossy on a rockwork. 



In the Pink tribe, the scarce, single, wild Car- 

 nation (D. Caryophyllus), D. plumarius, by some 

 supposed to be the parent of the garden pinks, and 

 D. caesius, the Cheddar Pink, which does so nicely 

 on an old wall or on rockwork, D. deltoides, the 

 maiden pink, the common soapwort (Saponaria 

 officinalis), the sea bladder-campion (Silene mari- 

 tima), Silene acaulis, the beautiful little alpine that 

 clothes our higher mountains, the corn cockle 

 (Lychnis Githago), the Ragged Robin, and the 

 alpine lychnis ; the vernal sandwort (Arenaria 

 verna), Arenaria ciliata, found on Ben Bulben, in 

 Ireland, and Cerastium alpinum are the best, and 



