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macedonica are magnificent herbaceous plants, broad and 

 narrow-leaved forms of one type, probably, like enormous 

 common sulphur and orange Toadflaxes, with glaucous 

 leaves and a sturdy upstanding habit, that make bushes 

 four feet high or so, and flower all through the summer, and 

 thrive in any decent position as heartily as any one could 

 desire. Linaria Cymbalaria is our own dear little creep- 

 ing Toadflax of the walls, which is charming for any 

 neglected corner, as well as its bigger, more brilliant 

 pallida form. As for Linaria hepaticaefolia, I have an 

 uncertain plant which came to me as Linaria ovata, but 

 which is declared to be the true hepaticaefolia — a creeper, 

 with round, white-veined leaves, and large whitish lilac 

 flowers, admirable for a rough, shady coi-ner, like every 

 creeping Toadflax. But one must be very careful with 

 all of them ; for, if you give them an inch, and they like 

 it, they will certainly go on to take an ell ; only the 

 most valueless wastes should be allotted them ; and 

 I already foresee that I shall have trouble with my 

 hepaticaefolia, which is beginning to run up a choice cliff' 

 at whose dank base it was planted in certainty that it 

 would be out of all harm's way. Linaria Cymbalaria 

 maxima, and Linaria Pancici — this last a novelty and well- 

 spoken of — are yet but seedlings that will flower this 

 season. As for Mazus rugosus, that also is a seedling, but 

 looks so flourishing and flowered so prettily last year, with 

 little Toadflaxy blossoms, that I am in high hope he may 

 prove more satisfactorily winter-hard than the older and 

 better-known Mazus Pumilio. And another pretty little 

 plant of the Fig-worts, Coris monspeliensis, a Provenc^al, 

 with six-inch spikes or so of small purple and gold flowers; 

 this, like the southerly Antirrhinums, blooms long and 

 late, loves dry heat, and is not safely hardy here, except 

 on a high-drained corner of the rocks in light soil. 



Foxgloves and Mulleins are hardly rock-plants, except 



