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and the Ivy-leaved Linaria, but quite different in aspect, forming 

 dense, dwarf, smooth and silvery tufts, covered with bluish-violet 

 flowers, with two bosses of intense orange in the centre of the 

 lower division of each. Its habit is spreading, but neat and 

 very dwarf, rarely rising more than a few inches high. On the 

 Alps I have seen it flowering profusely at one inch high, the 

 leaves, which attain a length of three quarters of an inch in our 

 gardens, being almost rudimentary and scarcely perceptible 

 beneath the flowers, which quite obscure stem and leaves, 

 being larger proportionately than on the cultivated plant. It 

 is usually a biennial ; but in favourable spots, both in a wild 

 and cultivated state, becomes perennial. Its duration, how- 

 ever, is not of so much consequence, as it sows itself freely, and 

 is one of the most charming subjects that we can allow to " go 

 wild" in sandy, gritty, and rather moist earth, or in chinks 

 of rockwork. In moist districts it will sometimes even establish 

 itself in the gravel walks. It is readily increased from seed, 

 which should be sown in cold frames, in early spring, or in 

 the places it is destined to embellish out of doors. 



No other cultivated Linaria approaches the preceding in 

 beauty or character, but L. origanifofia is pretty and worthy 

 of a place in large collections ; and our common wild Ivy-leaved 

 Linaria, L. Cymbalaria, that drapes over so many walls so grace- 

 fully, has a white and a pretty variegated variety. The old plant 

 itself would be • fully described here were it not that it usually 

 takes possession of old walls and other places suitable for its 

 growth. The singular and handsome Peloria variety of our 

 common L. vulgaris, with five spurs and a regular five-lobed 

 mouth, is also well worthy of a place, being remarkably curious 

 as well as ornamental. 



LINN.S1A 'E.O'BS.KUiB.—Twinflower. 



An interesting traiUng evergreen, with opposite, round-oval 

 leaves, slightly toothed at the top, and bearing delicate, fragrant, 

 and gracefully drooping pale pink flowers, which are produced in 

 pairs. This plant is named after the great Linnaeus, with whom 

 it was an especial favourite, as it generally is with cultivators of 

 alpine or rock plants. A native of moist mossy woods, in 



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