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CLIBRANS’ LIST OP HERBACEOUS AND ALPINE PLANTS FOR 1906 . 
SPIR^A — continued. 
475 palmata, 2 ft., bright rose, effective ; 
useful for cutting, vi-viii. 4d. eacli. 
476 alba, 2 ft., lovely white form of the 
above ; a gem for herbaceous borders 
and a good forcing plant. 6d. each. 
478 elegans, 2J ft., white and rose, free, 
and beautiful. 4d. 
481 purpurata, ij ft., purplish flowers 
rvith purplish tinted foliage. 4d. 
484 Thunbergii, 2 ft., white ; distinct and 
pretty. Fine for forcing, vii-viii. 6d. 
486 Ulmaria, fl. pi., 2 ft., sweet-scented 
double white flowers, fine for cutting. 
4d. each. 
489 fol. var., 2 ft., golden variegated 
foliage, creamy-white flowers, fine for 
cutting, vi-viii, i/- 
6 Spirseas, our selection, for 1/9 
STACHYS (Hedge-nettle), flowers in whorls 
in a long, narrow erect spike. 
495 coccinea, i| ft., deep red flowers ; very 
free, vii-viii. 6d. 
0 497 lanata, ft., large, densely woolly 
leaves, flowers reddish purple, useful 
for edging, vi-vii. 3/- doz. ; 4d. each. 
STATICE {Sea Lavender), numerous brandling 
flower stems, the flowers retain their 
colour and form for months ; e.xcellenl 
for cutting. 
500 caspica, ft., a free-flowering species, 
useful and attractive. 6d. 
502 elata, 2 ft., blue flowers margined white, 
vii-ix. 6d. 
504 eximia, i ft., lilac-rose, dense spikes, 
vi-viii. i/- 
509 Gmelini, i ft., robust, flowers blue, vi-viii. 
6d. 
51 1 latifolla, 3 ft., large handsome spreading 
branches crowded with small purplish- 
blue flowers : best lor cutting and 
drying for vases in winter, vii-x. 6d. 
each : per doz., 4/6 ; per too, 30/- 
5I.J Limonium, iJ ft., grandly branching 
blue flower spikes, viii-x. (id. 
510 scoparia, i ft., a dainty blue-flowered 
form, vi-viii. 6d. 
STIPA 
530 pennata (Feather Gross), 2 ft., a beautiful 
hardy Grass, graceful arcliing stems 
carrying in Summer lovely feathery 
plumes of silky hair-covered awns ; 
prefers deep sand. 4d. 
STOB^ (syu- Berkheya). 
533 purpurea, 2 ft., a handsome South African 
Thistle, numerous bluish-purple flower 
hcails, 3 in. across in great loose masses, 
leaves more than i ft. long, rich green ' 
above, cottony below, viii-ix. 6d. 
STOKESIA (Stoke's Aster). 
536 cyanea, ij ft., rich tflue flowers in early 
Winter, over 2 in. across, like a double 
.'Xster ; must be taken indoors to bloom 
ix-x. pd. 
STRATIOTES (IVater Soldier). See .4tjuatic 
Plants, page p. 
STYLOPHORUM 
539 diphyllum (Celandine Poppy), il ft., 
grey foliage and numerous bright 
yellow flowers, over 2 in, across ; v-vii. 
6d. 
SYMPHYTUM (Comfrey), spikes of tubular 
flowers in Summer ; striking b)' edge 
of water. 
SYMPHYTUM— 
0 544 asperrimum aureum varlegatum, 3J ft., 
foliage margined yellow, flowers pur- 
plish-blue ; vi-vii. gd. 
550 caucasicum, 3 ft., a fine blue ; grand for 
the wild garden, v-vii. 6d. 
0 552 ofllcinale sulphureum varlegatum, 2^ ft., 
leaves margined sulphur ; flowers 
lilac and red, vi-vii. 6d. 
SYNTHYRIS 
560 renlformis, 0 in., pale violet flowers pro- 
duced in racemes, a very pretty species, 
iv. 1/6. 
TANACETUM (Tansy). 
2 vulgare elegans, 2 ft., finely-divided, 
crisped emerald-green leaves ; vi-viii. 
3/- doz. ; 4d. each . 
TELEKIA (syn. Bupthalmum), Ox-eye, stately, 
showy com/posites with great hand- 
some leaves and masses of yellow flower 
heads with a dark centre ; grand for 
bold massing. 
7 specioslsslma, 3 ft., a beauty : wonder- 
fully free, vii-viii. 4d. 
TEUCRIUM 
13 betonicum, ft., reddish-purple flowers 
in twos on numerous spikes, v-viii. 6d. 
THALICTRUM (Meadow Rue), elegant fern- 
like foliage and great clusters of 
flowers, in which the silky prettily- 
coloured stamens are most striking. 
16 aquilegitolium (4 ft), feathery heads, 
white flowers. A favourite, vi-vii. 
6d. 
18 rubrum (4 ft), purplish pink, 
useful for cutting. 6d. 
22 lucidum (4 ft), light graceful foliage, 
yellow flowers, vi-vii. gd. 
27 minus (syn. adiantifolia) (i ft.), valu- 
able for its fern-like foliage for cutting, 
vi-vii. gd. 
32 sulphureum, 3 ft., sulphur-coloured 
flowers, produced in fine heads, hand- 
some and free. 6d. 
34 tuberosum ( i J ft. ), white, graceful foliage, 
vi-vii. gd. 
Six Thalictrums, in 6 varieties, our 
selection, 1 / 9 . 
THYMUS (Thyme), excellent for dry banks, 
rockeries, edgings, old walls and 
ruins ; likes full sun. 
CO 40 citriodorous aureus, beautiful golden 
foliage, fine for edging, vi-vii. 2/6 
doz., 3<1. each. 
42 micans,rosy-purple, very pretty, vi-vii. 
2/6 doz., 3d. each. 
c 44 montanus albus, while, fine for carpet 
bedding, vi-vii. 2/6 doz., 3d. each. 
0 46 officinalis variegatus, foliage in dense 
sheets ; lilac flowers, vii-viii. gd. 
51 serpyllum carnosum, rosy flowers, ii\ 
great profusion, v-vii. gd. 
49 coccineum, sheet of brilliant crim- 
son flowers vi-vii. 2/6 doz., 3d. each. 
0 54 thurilerous (lanuginosa), large cushions, 
woolly foliage ; lilac, vi-vii. 2/6 doz., 
3d. each. 
5 distinct varieties of Thymus for 1 /- 
TIARELLA (Foam-flower), beautiful border 
and rock plants, leaves bronze with 
age ; graceful upright spikes of small 
flowers in early summer, clustered in 
delicious profusion ; moisture and par- 
tial shade. 
