HARDY EXOTIC FLOWERING PLANTS. 149 
are easily naturalised and very handsome, with their little spikes of 
flowers of many shades of blue. 
Forget-me-not, Myosotis—There is one exotic species, M. dissi- 
tiflora, not inferior in beauty to any of our handsomest native kinds, 
and which is well worthy of naturalisation everywhere, thriving best 
on moist and sandy soil. 
Molopospermum cicutarium.—Thevre is a deep green and 
fern-like beauty dis- 
played profusely by 
some of the Umbel- 
liferous family, but I 
have rarely met with 
one so remarkably at- 
tractive as this species 
It isa very ornamental 
plant, with large, 
deeply-divided leaves 
of a lively green colour, 
forming a dense irregu- 
lar bush. The flowers, 
which are insignificant 
and of a yellowish- 
white colour, are borne 
in small roundish 
umbels. Many of the 
class, while very ele- 
gant, perish quickly, 
get shabby indeed by 
the end of June, and 
are therefore out of 
place in the flower Type of fine-leaved umbellate plants seldom grown in gardens. 
garden ; but this is firm 
in character, of a fine rich green, stout yet spreading in habit, growing 
more than 3 feet high, and making altogether a most pleasing bush. It 
is perfectly hardy, and easily increased by seed or division, ut rare as 
yet. It loves a deep moist soil, but will thrive in any good garden 
soil. It is a fine subject for isolation or grouping with other hardy 
and graceful-leaved Umbelliferous plants. 
Stock, Matthiola—Showy flowers, mostly fragrant, peculiarly well 
suited for old ruins, chalk pits, stony banks, etc. Some of the annual 
