2 26 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



HELIANTHEMUM TUBER ARIA.— rrK#« Sunrose, 



A DISTINCT and beautiful rock-plant, from the shores of the 

 Mediterranean, bearing flowers like those of a single yellow rose, 

 two inches across, and with dark centres, drooping when in bud, 

 and on stems about nine inches^ high. It is quite removed from 

 all the other cultivated Sunroses iii riot producing woody stems, 

 but sending up large hairy leaves, somewhat like plantain-leaves, 

 from the root, and scarcely looking like a Sunrose at all, It 

 flowers in summer, and continuously if in gpod, health and in 

 good soil. It. is said to grow abundantly where truffles abound, 

 and is well worthy of a position in a well-drained spot, or dry 

 fissure on the sunny side of rockwork. 



HELIANTHEMUM VULGAEE.— Ctf»zw2(7« Sunrose. 



A WELL-KNOWN British under-shrub, growing in dry pastures 

 and heaths, and producing an abundance of bright yellow flowers 

 on stems from a few inches to nearly a foot long. In a culti- 

 vated state this plant varies a good deal in colour, and nume- 

 rous plants passing under different names in our gardens are 

 really forms of this species. Some of the most attractively 

 coloured are well worthy of cultivation. While thriving in 

 almost any soil, they attain ripest health, and flower most 

 profusely, on chalky and warm ones, and on soils of this de- 

 scription they may be used with good effect on the margins of 

 shrubberies, especially the copper-coloured and red varieties. 

 They are only suited for the rougher parts of rockwork, except 

 where less common and more beautiful plants cannot be obtained. 

 The best way to obtain varieties of different colours is by seed, 

 which is offered in most of the catalogues. Many beautiful 

 members of this family are lost to cultivation, or have not yet 

 been introduced, and not a few passing as species in some 

 of our botanical collections are mere varieties, but often very 

 showy, and useful in gardens. 



The pretty annual spotted Sunrose {H. guttatum), found in 

 the Channel Islands, on the Holyhead Mountain, in Anglesea, 

 and widely distributed on the Continent, deserves a place in the 

 curious collection, and indeed has beauty enough to recommend 

 it to the general cultivator. It is quite easily grown, but is 



