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inches in height, with pale green leaves, deeply 
cut, and hairy. The flowers, upon long slender 
stems, are red, copper-coloured, or orange, with 
a deep maroon blotch in tlie centre, and a scent 
of Lily of the Valley. They are more lasting 
than in other kinds, and useful for cutting, 
coming in June from seed sown in heat early 
in the year or in the open a little later. Syn. 
M. crassifo/ia. 
M. horridula. — A little plant found at a great 
height in the Himalayas, growing as almost 
stemless tufts of lanceolate leaves,covered dense- 
ly with prickles ; the short unbranched stems 
bear solitary bluish-purple flowers about an inch 
and a half wide. 
M. intcgrifolia. — A new kind flowered in 
this country for the first time this year, its 
large pale yellow flowers (shown in our plate) 
being much admired. The plant grows at a 
height of 11,000 feet to 15,500 feet in the 
mountains of Thibet and S.W. China, where 
myriads of plants are to be seen bearing flowers 
which sometimes measure i o inches across. In 
the size and number of their flowers, however, 
the plants vary, some being only 3 inches wide, 
while from 3 to as many as 1 5 perfect blooms 
may be open at once. Nor is there any regu- 
larity in the size and number of petals, for 
though mostly 5 in number, there are often 
more. The plant is a biennial, hardy, and with 
oval uncut leaves of pale green, about a foot 
long when fully grown, and more or lesscovered 
with soft, silky hairs. The stems vary in height, 
but the plants flowered in this country were 
from 1 2 to 18 inches high, flowering until the 
first keen frosts. Like all the Meconopsids, 
integrtfolia is a moisture loving plant, thriving 
in peat or leafy soil in a half shady place. 
M. nepalensis. — At onetime the best-known 
of these Indian Poppyworts, this kind is now 
less often seen, spite of its hardiness and fine 
leaves, which are themselves enough to make 
it worth growing. These come in tufts a foot 
or more across and containing as many as 50 
to 80 leaves of pale yellow-green colour and 
soft woolly texture, from the long yellowish 
hairs with which they are thickly covered. 
The lower leaves lie on the ground as a dense 
rosette, with the younger ones erect or nearly 
so, and as they remain in a good state through- 
out the winter, a group in the rock-garden is 
welcome, especially when the long hairs arc 
set with silvery drops after rain. The flowers 
come in June of the second year, upon thinly 
branched stems of 2 to 5 feet. The flowers 
open in succession beginning from the top of 
the spike, and are of pale sulphur yellow, 2 
to 3 inches across, and of thin texture ; our 
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sun seems too weak to develop the bright co- 
lour of which travellers tell us in its own country. 
Though the plants die after flowering, seeds 
generally ripen from the early flowers, and 
should be sown at once in a moist, shaded 
border of light loam or peat, even small seed- 
lings being quite hardy in most winters ; when 
happily placed, the plant will sometimes sow 
itself. Planted in deep sandy peat, and a moist 
and well-drained spot in partial shade, the 
young plants grow freely. Nepaul. There is 
