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Campanula glomerata, (Headed Bell- 
flower.) — The root leaves are cordate ovate ; 
the flowers a good deal like the last, violet- 
coloured ; height, two feet. Flowers in May 
and June. 
Campanula Trachelium, (Throatwort 
Bell-flower.) — The root leaves cordate ovate; 
the plant generally a good deal like the last. 
There is a double- flowered variety. 
*Campanula pulla, (Russet Bell-flower.) 
A dwarf plant, with roundish ovate leaves; 
and little stems, bearing (comparatively) large 
bluish purple flowers ; height, four inches. 
Flowers in June. 
*Campanula alpina, (Alpine Bell-flower.) 
— A dwarf plant, with small roundish leaves, 
and (comparatively) large blue, bell-shaped 
flowers ; height, three inches. Flowers in 
June. There is a white flowered variety. 
Cardamine pratensis, (Meadow Cuckoo 
Pint.) The leaves pinnated; the flowers, on an 
erect stem, cruciform, light purple ; height, 
one foot or more. Flowers in April. There 
is a variety called plena, with double flowers. 
*Centranthus ruber, (Red-flowered Cen- 
tranthus, or Red Valerian.) — This plant has an 
upright branching habit, with ovate lanceolate 
leaves, and dense corymbose heads of crimson 
red flowers, which are narrow, and tubular, 
with a spur at the base, and a regular five-lobed 
limb ; height, two feet. Flowers in June. 
There is a variety with white flowers. 
*Chelone barbata, (Bearded Chelone.) 
— The root leaves are spathulate ; upper ones 
linear-lanceolate ; the flowers tubular, pendu- 
lous, scarlet outside, white within, numerous, 
forming an erect lengthened branching panicle, 
height, three to four feet. Flowers in July 
and August. 
*fCHELONE centranthifolia, (Centran- 
thus-leaved Chelone.) — The root leaves are 
ovate-lanceolate; the flowers tubular, drooping, 
in an erect, elongated, branching panicle ; 
scarlet ; height four feet. Flowers in August. 
Chelone Lyoni, (Lyon's Chelone.)— This 
is erect, branched ; the leaves cordate ovate ; 
the flowers clustered in terminal spikes, 
purple, inflated ; height three feet. Flowers 
in August. 
Chrysostemma tripteris, (Three-leaved 
Chrysostemma.) — The stem erect, branching; 
the leaves opposite, three-lobed ; the flowers 
composite, large, yellow, with a purple disk, 
on three forked panicles ; height, five to six 
feet. Flowers in August. 
Circ^ea lutetiana, (Enchanter's Night- 
shade.) — This has a branching stem, forming 
a dense little bush, with nearly oval leaves. 
and racemose spikes of pretty little pink 
flowers ; height, one foot. Flowers in July. 
Colchicum AUTUMNALE,(Common Meadow 
Saffron.) — Much like a Crocus ; the flowers 
are light purple, and come up in the autumn, 
without the leaves, which grow up in the 
spring ; height, three inches. Flowers in 
September. 
Colchicum variegatum, (Chequered 
Meadow Saffron.) — In the way of the last, 
but with chequered, light purple flowers. 
Coreopsis lanceolata, (Lance-leaved Co- 
reopsis.) — The leaves are cuneate, or oblong 
lanceolate ; the stem erect, branching ; the 
flowers large, composite, yellow; height, three 
feet. Flowers in August. 
*Coreopsis tenuifolia, (Slender-leaved 
Coreopsis.) — Dwarfer than the last, with 
narrow, three-parted leaves, the lobes linear ; 
the stem is branched; the flowers yellow, com- 
posite; height, one foot and a half to two feet. 
Flowers in July. 
^Coreopsis grandiflora, (Large-flowered 
Coreopsis.) — The stem is erect, branched; the 
leaves are variously parted, with long linear 
lobes ; the flowers are large, yellow, compo- 
site ; height, three feet. Flow T ers in August. 
Coreopsis senifolia, (Six-leaved Core- 
opsis.) — The stem erect, branched at top; the 
leaves opposite, sessile, each three parted, thus 
forming six lanceolate segments ; the flowers 
composite, large, yellow, with a yellow disk ; 
height, four feet. Flowers in August. 
Coronilla minima, (Least Coronilla.) — 
The stems are decumbent and suffruticose ; the 
leaves pinnated, with obtuse leaflets; the flowers 
yellow, pea-shaped, in little umbels, or close 
flat heads, from the axils of the leaves; height, 
six to nine inches. Flowers in July. A trail- 
ing plant ; scarcely hardy. 
*Corydalis tuberosa, (Tuberous Cory- 
dalis.) — The roots tuberous ; the leaves twice 
three cleft ; the flowers, with a long spur be- 
hind, something like those of the larkspur, 
purple; they are borne on a stem distinct from 
the leaves ; height, six inches. Flowers in 
March. There is a white variety, called albi- 
flora. 
Corydalis BULBOSA,(Bulbous Corydalis.) — 
The roots are tuberous ; the leaves nearly as 
in the last; the flowers pink, borne as in the last; 
height, six inches. Flowers in March. 
Corydalis sibiricus, (Siberian Coryda- 
lis.) — The leaves of this are twice pinnate, that 
is, the lobes are themselves pinnated; the flowers 
yellow, borne as in the last; height, six inches. 
Flowers in July. 
Crocus. — Of this well-known family there 
are numerous species and varieties of almost 
every shade of yellow, purple, blue, lilac, and 
white ; the greater part flower in the spring, 
but some in the autumn. 
*Crucianella stylosa, (Long-styled Cru- 
cianella.) — A procumbent plant, with long 
trailing stems, beset with whorls of eight or 
nine lanceolate leaves ; and bearing terminal 
