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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GABDEN PLANTS coronilla 



Flowers in July, pale violet, with a white 

 keel tipped with brown. 

 Culture dc. as above. 



A. Tragacantha {Great Goat Thorn). 

 An evergreen spiny shrub 1^-3 ft. high, 

 native of the Levant. Leaves hoary, with 

 7-9 pairs of linear, hairy leaflets ; stalks 

 becoming spiny when old. Flowers in 

 June, pale violet, 2-5 together in the axUs 

 of the leaves. It was at one time erro- 

 neously thought that Gum Tragaoanth 

 was obtained from this plant. 



Culture do. as above. 



A. vaginatus A handsome Siberian 



perennial 1 ft. high, with 7 or 8 pairs of 

 elongated oblong leaflets covered with 

 short sUvery hairs. Flowers in summer, 

 rosy-purple, with white-tipped wings, in 

 dense spikes. Calyx rather inflated, 

 covered with soft white and black hairs. 



Culture do. as above. 



A. vesicarius. — A perennial hoary 

 trailer 6-12 in. high, native of France. 

 Leaflets 5-7 pairs, elliptic. Flowers in 

 July, standard petal purple, wings yellow, 

 keel white tipped with yellow. Calyx 

 covered with black down and long white 

 hairs. 



CiMure dc. as above. 



A. viraineus. — A very handsome 

 Siberian perennial 6-12 in. high, with 

 4-6 pairs of lance-shaped acute leaflets 

 covered with adpressed hairs. Flowers 

 in Jime, standard petal purple-rose, longer 

 than the pure white wings. Calyx covered 

 with black hairs. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. vulpinus. — A pretty smooth- 

 stemmed Caucasian perennial 2-3 ft. high, 

 with obovate blunt, rather velvety leaflets. 

 Flowers in June, pale yeUow, in almost 

 globose spikes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



OXYTROPIS.— A genus with 100 

 species of much-branched herbs or under- 

 shrubs, with the habit and floral char- 

 acters of Astragalus, from which it 

 differs chiefly in the flowers having 

 a mucronate or pointed keel. Leaves 

 oddly pinnate. Stipules adnate to the 

 leaf stalk or free. Flowers in axillary 

 spikes or racemes. 



Culture and Propagation. — These 

 plants prefer a dry, sandy, loamy soil, but 

 are not particular so long as they are not 

 in stagnant, moist spots. They are in- 



creased by seeds sown in the open border 

 or by division of the plants in spring, and 

 may be utilised for the rougher parts of 

 the rock garden. 



O. campestris. — A pretty Scotch alpine 

 3-6 in. high, with many pairs of lance - 

 shaped acute, hoary leaflets. Flowers in 

 July, creamy-white with purple-tinted 

 wings and keel, scapes hairy, crowded. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. foetida. — A clammy, smeUing plant 

 4-6 in. high, native of S. France, with 

 many pairs of smooth lance-shaped linear 

 leaflets, and creamy -white flowers in July. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. Halleri. — An elegant Scotch silky- 

 haired species 6 in. high, with ovate acute 

 leaflets and rich bluish-purple, or rarely 

 white, flowers in July, in round dense 

 heads. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. Lamberti. — A rare and beautiful 

 stemless rock plant 6-12 in. high, native 

 of N. America, with silky and hairy lance- 

 shaped acute leaflets. Flowers in August, 

 rosy-carmine. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. montana. — A hairy European 

 species 6 in. high, with elliptic lance- 

 shaped leaflets and short racemes of bluish- 

 purple flowers in summer. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. pilosa {Astragalus pilosus). — A 

 pretty softly hairy Siberian species about 

 6 in. high, with lance-shaped acute leaflets 

 and pale yeUow flowers in July. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. pyrenaica. — A handsome Pyrenean 

 species 4-6 in. high, with lance-shaped or 

 oblong pointed leaflets covered with long 

 silky hairs. Flowers in summer, sky-blue, 

 erect, 9-15 on a short crowded raceme. 

 Calyx very hairy, with short lance-like 

 teeth. 



Culture dc. as above. 



O. uralensis. — A pretty Scotch and 

 European perennial with 10-15 pairs of 

 ovate acute leaflets, and dense round 

 heads of bright purple flowers in summer. 

 Very similar to 0. campestris. 



Culture dc. as above. 



CORONILLA.— This genus contains 

 about 20 species of smooth rarely silky 

 herbs or shrubs, with oddly pinnate 

 leaves, and flowers on long - stalked 



