ROMANZOFFIA 



NEMOPHILA OBDEB 



WIGANDIA 669 



Culture d-c. as above. Increased by 

 seeds or by division in autumn or spring. 

 Suitable for the border or rookery. 



P. tanacetifolia. — A downy Californian 

 annual about 2 ft. high, with leaves 2-6 

 in. long, pinnately cut into irregularly 

 sinuate and toothed lobes 3-7 on each 

 side, the terminal one oblong unequally 

 cut and toothed. Flowers from June to 

 September, bluish-pink or pale lilac, bell- 

 shaped, in dense-flowered crosier-like 

 racemes, with protrudiag stamens. The 

 variety alba differs from the type only in 

 its whitish flowers. 



Culture Sc. as above. As bees have 

 a great fondness for this species it is 

 often grown expressly for them. 



P. viscida (Eutoca viscida). — A com- 

 pact branching Californian annual about 

 1 ft. high, with hairy and somewhat 

 clammy stems, and broadly ovate coarsely 

 toothed leaves 1^3 in. long. Flowers 

 from July to September, blue or purplish, 

 about I in. across, in erect many-flowered 

 racemes 4-8 in. long opposite the leaves. 



Culture dc. as above. 



P. Whitlavia (Whitlamia grandiflora). 

 A showy Californian annual about 2 ft. 

 high, with deltoid or ovate-deltoid coarsely 

 and doubly toothed, somewhat hairy 

 leaves on long stalks. Flowers from June 

 to September, large, rich blue, and beU- 

 shaped, in terminal many - flowered 

 racemes. Calyx deeply cut to the base. 

 There is a white-flowered variety named 

 alba ; and a white and blue variety called 

 gloxinioides. 



Other species occasionally met with 

 are P. Menziesi with purple flowers, 

 P. orcuttiana with white flowers having 

 a yellow centre, and P. PranMini with 

 blue ones. 



Culture dc. as above. 



ROMANZOFFIA.— A genus contain- 

 ing 2 species of low tufted perennial 

 herbs, resembhng Saxifrages in habit. 

 Leaves radical long-stalked, those of 

 the stem very few, roundish, reniform, 

 coarsely toothed. Flowers white, in one- 

 sided racemes on slightly branched stems 

 or ascending scapes. Calyx lobes 5, lance- 

 shaped, bluntiah. Corolla broadly or 

 tubular-bell-shaped, with 5 imbricate 

 spreading lobes. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 ovoid 2-oelled ; style thread-like undivided. 

 Capsule compressed many-seeded. 



R. sitchensis {Sifka Water Leaf). — A 

 pretty tufted perennial about 4 in. high, 



native of Sitcha and recognised by its long- 

 stalked, roundish kidney-shaped leaves, 

 and masses of small white flowers in 

 April. 



Culture and Propagation. — This 

 species is suitable chiefly for open positions 

 in the rook garden, and may be increased 

 by seeds sown in spring or autumn in the 

 open border or in cold frames, or by divi- 

 ding the tufts at the same period. It 

 flourishes in ordinary good garden soil 

 that is well drained. 



EMMENANTHE. — A genus of 

 about 5 species of dwarf downy or hairy 

 annuals, with alternate undivided sinu- 

 ate or pinnately dissected leaves. Calyx 

 segments linear. Corolla beU-shaped, with 

 5 short broad lobes. Stamens 5. Disc 

 hypogynous, rather fleshy or obsolete. 

 Styles thread-like 2-cleft, with capitate 

 stigmas. Capsule oblong 2-valved. 



E. penduliflora. — A Californian annual 

 about 1 ft. high, with loose one-sided 

 racemes of pale primrose-yellow flowers 

 in summer. 



Culture and Propagation. — This is 

 the only species occasionally seen culti- 

 vated. It flourishes as a hardy annual in 

 ordinary garden soU. Seeds may be sown 

 in gentle heat in March, or in the open 

 border in April. 



WIGANDIA. —A genus of 3 or 4 

 species of tall, noble-looking, vigorous 

 hairy plants chiefly valuable for their fine 

 foliage. Leaves alternate, large, wrinkled, 

 more or less toothed or lobed. Flowers 

 borne without stalks on one side of crosier- 

 like branches in large forked cymes, at 

 the ends of the branches. Calyx lobes 

 linear. CoyoUa tube short, broadly beU- 

 shaped, not scaly withm, with 5 large 

 spreading lobes. Stamens 5, often pro- 

 truding, the filaments being clothed vidth 

 reflexed hairs below the middle. Capsule 

 2-valved, many-seeded. 



Culture and Propagation. — Wigandias 

 are now largely used in parks and large 

 gardens for what is known as ' sub-tropical 

 bedding.' They are all natives of the 

 mountainous regions of tropical America, 

 and their cultivation out of doors in the 

 British Islands is consequently limited 

 to the warmest months of the year — from 

 June to the end of September. Grown 

 in sheltered sunny situations and in rich 

 sandy soil they give a noble and luxxu-iant 

 effect to the garden, as they reach a 



