LINVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, U. S. A. 
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DICEHTRA, continued. Each. Doz. 
D. Canadensis (Squirrel Corn). This species, while not showy as the last, has 
beautiful cut foliage and very pretty small flowers with yellowish tinge $o 15 $1 25 
D. spectabilis (Bleeding Heart). Very pretty flowers in graceful racemes ; 
heart-shaped, of beautiful rosy-crimson and white 25 
DIPHYLLEIA cymosa (Umbrella Leaf). Grows best in wet places, bearing two 
very large lobed leaves and a terminal cyme of beautiful white flowers, fol- 
lowed by a cluster of dark purple showy fruit 20 1 50 
DELPHINIUM virescens. This is a new plant, and valuable for the pretty di- 
vided foliage, though the flowers are not especially showy 25 2 00 
*EPIGEA repens (Trailing Arbutus, Mayflower). The most popular, probably, 
of all our native wild flowers ; difficult to transplant, but when established 
spreads rapidly, and well repays all the trouble given it with its deliciously 
fragrant white or pink flowers, produced in long clusters in early May 20 1 25 
EUPATOREUM ageratoides (White Snakeroot). A fine species of easy growth, 
producing corymbs of pure white flowers in late summer 15 1 10 
E. purpureum (Purple Snakeroot). Tall stem 3 to 8 feet high. Large panicles 
of purple flowers 20 1 50 
EUPHORBIA corollata (Flowering Spurge). 2 to 3 feet high, with pure white in- 
volucres around the small greenish flower 15 1 00 
ERYTHRONIUM Americanum (Dog's-tooth Violet). Large bright yellow lily- 
like flowers rising from green mottled leaves 10 75 
*FRAGARIA Virginiana (Wild Strawberry). The common wild Strawberry of 
the United States. Increases very rapidly 10 50 
*GALAX aphylla (Colt s-foot). A smooth plant with heart-shaped crenate- 
toothed and shining evergreen leaves. The small white flowers are borne 
on a scape 1 to 2 feet high, forming a beautiful dense spiked raceme. The 
thick leaves (often turning to crimson in late fall) are extensively used in 
winter decorating 20 1 50 
*GAULTHERIA procumbens ( Wintergreen Checkerberry). A low highly aromatic 
plant, with dark green leaves and clusters of bright red, edible berries, all 
through the winter per 100, $6 15 75 
GENTIANA Andrewsii (Colored Gentian). An upright, smooth, branching stem, 
bearing clusters of closed bright blue flowers an inch or more long, in Sep- 
tember and October 20 1 50 
GERANIUM maculatum (Cranesbill). A beautiful plant, producing freely bright 
purple flowers and afterward peculiar beaked fruit 15 1 00 
GEUM radiatum. 8 to 14 inches. A strong growing perennial, with abundant 
dark green rounded leaves, in thick clumps, from which rises the hairy scape 
of bright yellow flowers, 1 inch wide. Very showy 20 2 00 
GILLENIA stipulacea. This is a very pretty perennial, bearing handsome cut 
foliage, and white or rose-tinted flowers in loose drooping panicles 20 1 50 
*HEPATICA acutiloba (Sharp-lobed Hepatica). This delicate little plant is one 
of the earliest visitors in spring ; the white or purple flowers are borne on 
hairy scapes, appearing as early as February or early March. 15 1 25 
*H. triloba (Kound-lobed Hepatica). Similar to the Acutiloba but with the 
leaf lobes rounded 15 ' 2 5 
-HOUSTONIA purpurea. Forms thick clumps, 6 to 12 inches high, growing in 
rich dry ground. The blue flowers very abundant 15 1 00 
*H. serpyllifolia (Bluets). Blooming nearly all summer, the bright blue or 
white flowers rising from a carpet of minute leaves. Damp soil 15 1 00 
IRIS cristata (Crested Dwarf Iris). A low plant with handsome bright blue flow- 
ers, the outer ones beautifully crested. May 15 1 00 
*I. verna (Dwarf Iris). Another fine iris, its bright blue fragrant flowers ap- 
pearing in early April, filling the woods with a delightful spring-like odor ... 1 00 
I. versicolor (Blue Flag). Strong growing species, 2 to 3 feet high. Violet 
blue flowers. Damp spots 20 1 20 
LILIUM Canadense. 2 to 6 feet high, with yello.v or yellowish-red flowers 15 1 00 
L. Grayi (Gray's Lily). Dr. Asa Gray in 1840 discovered a single specimen of 
this rare lily on Roan mountain, North Carolina, and it was found later, 
though almost as scarce as the first time, on the peaks of Otter, Virginia, and 
again by us in 188S in Mitchell county, this state. The flowers, one to nine 
on a stem, are dark colored, of a deep reddish orange, unifdrmly dotted 
within with rather small purple spots. Blooms in June and July 40 400 
