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place in any but a botanical or a very full collection. Flowers 

 in early summer, and, when not drawn and weakened from 

 shade, or by being placed in frames, is in perfect condition at 

 about three inches high, and is most readily increased by seeds. 

 = Petrocoptis Lagasca. 



LYCHNIS ■m&GKSCLK.— German Catchfly. 



A British plant, found chiefly in Wales and about Edinburgh, 

 but widely distributed in Europe and Asia in dryish places. It 

 has long grass-like leaves, and very showy panicles of rosy-red 

 flowers, on stems from ten to nearly eighteen inches high, and 

 abundantly produced in June. The variety called splendens is 

 the most worthy of garden cultivation, being of a brighter colour. 

 L. V. alba is a charming white variety, also worthy of a place, 

 and L. v. /lore plena, the double Catchfly, is a fine variety, with 

 more rocket-like blooms. They are excellent plants for the 

 rougher parts of rockwork, and as border-plants on dry soils. 

 I have seen the double variety used with good effect as an 

 edging-plant about Paris. Any of the kinds are worthy of being 

 naturalised on dryish slopes or rather open banks, on which they 

 seem to form the largest, healthiest, and most enduring tufts. 

 Easily propagated by seed or division. 



Lychnis Haageana, with shaggy stems and bracts, and flowers 

 of a splendid scarlet, two inches across ; L. flos-Jovis, a downy 

 plant, with rich purplish flowers ; L. Coronaria, the popular and 

 handsome Rose Campion ; Z. yi^/f^/zj, with vermilion-coloured 

 flowers, from Siberia ; and the double varieties of L. diurna and 

 vespertina, although for the most part handsome plants, are too 

 large for association with any but the coarsest rock-plants. 



LYCOPODIUM DENDEOIDEUM.— Gr(?K»(/ Pi7U. 



A CLUB-MOSS, in habit like a Lilliputian Pine-tree, and of all 

 its family by far the most worthy of a place in the rock-garden. 

 The little stems, ascending to a height of six to nine inches, from 

 a creeping root, are much branched, and clothed with small, 

 bright, shining green leaves ; fruit-cones yellow, long, cylindrical 

 and, like the stems, erect. A native of moist woods in North 

 America and high mountains of the Southern United States. 



