174 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
AMERICAN ORPINE. LIVE-FOR-EVER. (Plate XCT.) 
Sedum telephioides, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE 
TIME OF BLOOM 
Orpine. . Flesh colour. Scexutless. Georgia northward. 
June. 
Flowers : growing in many-flowered, compact cymes. Ca/yx: of four or five 
sepals. Corolla: of four or five lanceolate, or linear petals. Stamens: ten. 
Pistils : five. Leaves : alternate ; obovate ; entire ; the lower ones tapering into 
a petiole; the upper ones sessile. Svem : erect ; leafy ; branching. 
In common with its relative of the garden, which was so 
cherished by our grandmothers and so disliked by the farmers, 
the wild orpine is almost indestructable. The price of land en- 
ters very little into the calculations of the garden variety and 
ithas imbibed, perhaps from the farmer, the love of owning all 
adjoining territory. It is very difficult of extermination, as it 
lives more by its leaves and stalksthan by its roots. The wild 
variety, however, chooses mostly to cover rocks on high hills, 
which property we do not begrudge it, as the bloom is ex- 
tremely fresh and pretty, and so it saves itself from the reputa- 
tion of being a troublesome weed. 
DUTCHMAN’S BREECHES. WHITE HEARTS. 
SOLDIERS’ CAPS. 
Bicuctlla Cucullaria. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Fumitory. White and yeclow. Scentless. Mostly north. April, May. 
Flowers : growing in a one-sided raceme on a naked scape. Calyx : of two 
scale-like sepals. Corolla: somewhat heart-shaped, of four closed, cohering 
petals ; the inner ones enclosing the anthers and stigma; the two outer, larger 
ones extending into widely spreading spurs that suggest its name. Stamens : 
six. Pistil: one. Leaves: from the base; growing on slender petioles ; thrice 
compound and irregularly cut. Scafe: slender; smooth. eotsteck : a scaly 
bulb; slightly tuberous. 
When the soft, warm days of spring load the air with a subtle 
fragrance, those among us that are so fortunately placed as to 
make it possible, wander to the woods in search of its early 
bloom. And there we find the Dutchman’s breeches. Staid 
old soul as the Dutchman is, he must really have been surprised 
at the naming of this etherial plant after his trousers. It is 
true that under mitigating circumstances they have gained-an 

