AMERICAN COWSLIP 



the garden. The flowers are yellow, five- 

 pointed, with a dark eye, borne in the axils 

 of the upper leaves. 



Money, Creeping Charlie, Lysimachia 

 nummularia, the well-known trailing plant, 

 has now run wild. The stem creeps, the 

 small round leaves are opposite, and the 

 pretty yellow flowers are solitary on short 

 peduncles. Where vigor is especially desired 

 in a cover-plant. Money is extremely useful, 

 for it is a rampant grower and will romp all 

 over the place. It crowds out the grass 

 when it gets an opportunity, is, however, 

 always green, carpets the earth amply, and 

 possesses many virtues of its own. 



A Japanese Lysimachia, Lysimachia cle- 

 throides, with white flowers, has lately been 

 introduced and is highly recommended both 

 for a border plant and also as producing flowers for cutting. 



Money. Lysimachia 

 nummuldria 



AMERICAN COWSLIP. SHOOTING STAR 



Dodecatheon Meadia. 



Dodecatheon, Greek, the twelve gods; name given by Pliny to the 

 primrose, which was believed to be under the care of the superior 

 deities. 



A beautiful wild flower extremely variable, developed into garden 

 forms by the French florists. Tolerant of many locations, moist hill- 

 sides, cliffs, open woods, and prairies; ranges from Pennsylvania to the 

 Dakotas and south to the Gulf. Perennial. Summer. 



Leaves. — Radical, oblong or spatulate, rising in a cluster from the 

 root. 



Flowers. — Rose or white, borne in an umbel at the summit of a simple 

 naked scape. 



Calyx. — Deeply five-cleft, the divisions lanceolate. 



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