Part II. PELARGONIUM— PENTSTEMON. 271 



tained in its wild habitats, and the seed should be sown, in 

 moist spots, as soon as gathered. 



PELAEGONITJM ENDLICHERIANUM.— £«(//zV/%^r'j- P. 



This is interesting as the only species of Pelargonium that 

 comes so far north as Asia Minor, and from being a hardy 

 plant. But it is also a remarkably showy and handsome 

 one, with deep rose-coloured flowers, boldly upheld on stems 

 about eighteen inches high, the two upper petals being very 

 large. The leaves are roundish, and form rather close tufts on the 

 surface. I first saw it in the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, where 

 it had remained several very severe winters in the open air, 

 thus proving perfectly hardy. A sunny nook on a rockwork 

 would suit it well, or a position on a warm dry bank, sheltered 

 from the north, but it will probably be found to thrive without 

 these attentions. Readily increased by seed or division. 



PENTSTEMON Gr'L.KSE&.—Smooth P. 



Of dwarf habit, mostly quite decumbent, but occasionally more 

 or less erect, with lance-shaped, entire, smooth leaves, and termi- 

 nal racemes of bright-blue flowers, the throat being usually of a 

 pinkish lilac, but the flowers vary in hue. Perfectly hardy, and 

 succeeds in any friable soil. A native of the plains adjacent to 

 the Rocky Mountains. The better known P. speciosus is now 

 regarded as a variety only of this plant, growing taller and erect, 

 but the forms run into each other ; and P. cyananthus is only 

 another form. Flowers in early summer, and may be easily 

 raised from seed, the seedlings blooming the second year. Being 

 of a prostrate habit, it is well suited for warm and well-drained 

 slopes and ledges in the rock-garden. 



PENTSTEMON PROCERUS.— Tk/Z^^/ P. 



Perhaps the most suitable of any easily-obtained Pentstemon 

 for the margins of borders or for planting on rockwork, spreading 

 into wide evergreen tufts not more than a couple of inches high 

 in any kind of soil, and sending up in early summer numerous 

 spikes of flowers, not large or showy individually, but freely 

 produced, and of a veined purple, in little racemes, but standing 

 sp close to the stem that they seem in whorls. The stems. 



