Part 11. VESICARIA—VICIA—VINCA. 35 S 



with flowers of an intense blue in early summer. The flowers 

 are at first in dense racemes, which afterwards become much 

 longer, the fine blue corolla having oval segments, the three 

 lower ones pointed. It is an excellent plant either for the rock- 

 work or borders, easily increased by seeds or division, and 

 growing freely in ordinary garden soil. 



V. Nummularia, of the Pyrenees, V. aphylla, the neat little 

 bushy V, fruticulosa, V. satureifolia, and V. Candida, with silvery- 

 white leaves, very suitable for bedding out and edgings, are also 

 worthy of a place. 



VESICARIA -U'SVaCXyL&.'SK.—Bladder-j>odded V. 



A PLANT with large yellow flowers, not unlike the alpine Wall- 

 flower in habit and general appearance, but at once distinguished 

 by its bladder-like pods. It usually grows from ten inches to a 

 foot high, and has a vigorous constitution, though I have observed 

 it perish in winter on cold soils. A native of mountains in France, 

 Italy, and Southern Europe generally, usually on calcareous 

 rocks, and most likely to flourish and endure on dry sunny 

 parts of our rockworks in dryish soil. It is very easily increased 

 from seed. 



VICIA AEGENTEA.— i'z/z/^rj' VeicA. 



A SPECIES with silvery and downy leaves, composed of from four 

 to ten pairs of leaflets, and of prostrate habit, but without ten- 

 drils, and rarely more than eight inches high, spreading about, 

 however, pretty freely in light, warm, and well-drained soil ; the 

 rather large whitish flowers are veined with violet in the upper, 

 and spotted with purple in the lower part. It, however, is not a 

 brilliant plant in flower, but the elegant silvery leaves make it 

 worthy of a place in the rock-garden, in dry warm soil. A 

 Pyrenean plant, rare in gardens ; easily increased by division 

 or seed. 



VINCA "SESBKCEA.— Herbaceous Periwinkle. 



A PLANT much less frequent than our common Periwinkles, 

 and more worthy of culture on rocks, as it is not rampant in 

 habit. A native of Hungary, flowering in spring and early sum- 



