MICHAUXIA. 



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PHYTEUMA 561 



wards. Flowers in July, white tinged 

 with purple outside, drooping on an erect 

 pyramidal spike 12 in. or more long. 

 Segments of the ooroUa narrow oblong, 

 reflexed and recurved at the tips. Style 

 very conspicuous pale green, about 1 in. 

 long, with recurved stigma lobes. 



Speaking of this species in the ' Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle ' Mr. WoUey-Dod says : 

 ' There is a distinguished look about this 

 handsome hardy biennial which makes it 

 worth a little trouble. I raised four plants 

 from a' packet of seed in the spring of last 

 year, which were planted out in autumn, 

 and aU survived the winter; but three 

 went off during the late spring frosts, and 

 the one survivor is worth a description. 

 It is just coming into flower (July) and 

 has 4 main stalks, from each of which 

 about 20 laterals grow, commencing a few 

 inches from the ground. It is now 5 ft. 

 high, arid more than 3 ft. across, and 

 already shows about 2,000 flower-buds ; 

 but tertiary stalks are coming in the axils 

 of the lateral stalks, so that the flowering 

 would be endless but for the winter. In 

 general appearance the plant is like a 

 large plant of the native Succory, of which 

 it has the stiff robust habit. A packet of 

 seed sown this year has produced 200 or 

 300 plants.' 



M. laevigata. — A Persian milky plant, 

 said to reach 11 ft. high in its wild state. 

 Leaves ovate, coarsely net-veined, doubly 

 serrate, with harsh erect hairs on each 

 side. Flowers in August, white, with 10 

 corolla segments. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



M. Tchihchatchewi. — Another remark- 

 able BeU Flower, from Asia Minor, with 

 rosettes of large coarsely toothed leaves 

 1 ft. long, and dense spikes, 5-6 ft. high, 

 of pure white flowers each about X\ in. 

 across, borne in June and July. 



Culture a/nd Propagation. — Sow the 

 seeds in spring in shallow pans or boxes 

 in a cool frame or greenhouse. Prick the 

 seedlings off when large enough to handle, 

 and they wUl be ready for planting out in 

 May ; or they may be sown in September, 

 as above recommended, and the seedlings 

 transferred to the open border in spring. 



PHYTEUMA (Horned Eampion).— 

 A genus containing 50 species (or fewer) 

 of perennial herbs with long-stalked 

 radical leaves, those of the stalk being 

 alternate and smaller. Flowers variously 

 disposed, often sessile in heads or dense 



spikes at the ends of the branches. 

 Calyx-tube adnate, hemispherical or 

 oblong oboonical, limb 5-parted. Corolla 

 5-parted almost to the base ; lobes linear 

 and united for some time. Stamens free. 

 Ovary inferior, 2-3-celled. Stigma with 

 2-3 linear lobes. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 Horned Eampions thrive in a mixture of 

 sandy peat, loam, and leaf mould, and are 

 effective plants in warm parts of the 

 rock garden or flower border. Most of 

 them may be increased by seeds sown in 

 spring, either in gentle heat in March or 

 outside in April. They may also be 

 divided with care in spring, but not 

 until the plants have made some good 

 tufts. 



P. betonicaefolium. — A smooth-stem- 

 med Pyrenean perennial 6-12 in. high, 

 with oblong or linear lance-shaped toothed 

 leaves. Flowers in June, blue, in ovoid 

 spikes. 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. campanuloides. — A Caucasian spe- 

 cies 1-2 feet high, with bluntly ovate- 

 crenate leaves. Flowers from June to 

 August, deep violet-blue, 1-3 in a spike 

 2-3 in. long. 



Culture Ac, as above. 



P. Charmeli. — A native of the Pyre- 

 nees and Apennines 6-12 in. high. Leaves 

 kidney- or heart-shaped acute, long- 

 stalked. Flowers from May to August, 

 blue, in rounded heads. 



Culture do. as above. This species 

 comes very near P. ScheiLchzeri. 



P. comosum. — A beautiful but rather 

 slow-growing rock plant 3-6 in. high, 

 native of Central Europe. Leaves round- 

 ish heart-shaped ovate, coarsely and 

 sharply toothed. Flowers in July, purple 

 or blue, swollen at the base, and disposed 

 in dense umbel-like clusters, the corolla 

 being flask-shaped with 5 slits at the 

 swoUen base. 



Culture dc. as above. One of the re- 

 markable features of this species is the 

 hairy style which projects very much from 

 the narrow mouth of the corolla. 



P. Halleri is closely related to P. 

 spicatum, but has deep violet flowers in 

 heads at first clustered, afterwards cylin- 

 drical. It grows about a foot high, and 

 has long-stalked lower leaves with a heart- 

 shaped base and serrate edges, those on 



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