27o ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



nating. If it were an English flower, it would be called the 

 Lady of the Meadows. It is easy of culture on light deep 

 warm soil, and should be in every collection. Slight shelter 

 would prove beneficial, and that may readily be afforded by 

 planting it among dwarf shrubs and the rather tall subjects on 

 the flanks and lower parts of rockwork. It is also a beautiful 

 ornament for the mixed border, and would prove worthy of 

 naturalisation in open spots in semi-wild places and in unmown 

 parts of the large pleasure-ground. It will be found to flourish 

 in British as well as in alpine grass, and is easily propagated by 

 division or by seeds. = Czackia Liliastrum. 



PABNASSIA CAROLINIANA.— Caro/zVza P. 



A NATIVE of North America, chiefly in mountainous places, on 

 wet banks, and in damp soil. Much larger than the British 

 Parnassia, the stem reaching from one to nearly two feet high, 

 the flowers from an inch to an inch and a half across, the leaves 

 thick, leathery, and roundish-heart-shaped, one usually occurring 

 on the atalk low down, and clasping the stem ; the sterile stamens 

 three in each set, instead of nine to fifteen, as in P.falustris. It 

 is a very desirable plant for artificial bogs, succeeding in deep 

 moist soil, and flowering in autumn. Increased by seed or divi- 

 sion ; at present rare in gardens. 



P. asarifolia, a native of high mountains in Virginia and North 

 Carolina, does not differ much from the preceding, but has the 

 leaves rounded and kidney-shaped, with larger flowers, and re- 

 quires much the same treatment. 



PAENASSIA PALTJSTRIS.— G^rfljj of Parnassus. 



A WELL-KNOWN and admired native mountain plant, with hand,- 

 some white flowers an inch or more in diameter, and with very 

 distinctly marked veins, smooth, rather pale-green leaves, heart- 

 shaped at the base, from less than an inch to an inch and 

 a h&lf long, the flower-stems wiry, angular, and from four inches 

 to about a foot high. An interesting hative as well as orna- 

 mental plant, growing naturally in bogs, moist heaths, and high 

 wet pastures. A very desirable addition to the artificial bog, or 

 to very moist spots in or near the rock-garden, and may also be 

 ^rown in pots placed halfway in any fountain or other basin 

 'devoted to aquatic plants. Plants or seeds may be easily ob- 



