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THE CULTURE OF HARDY PERENNIALS. 
'•'l\UDBECiciAFULGiDA,(FulgentRudbcckia.) 
— The leaves oblong lanceolate, hairy ; the 
stem branching, bearing several flowers, which 
are deep yellow, with a dark purple centre ; 
height, three feet. Flowers in July. 
Salvia verticillata, (Whorled Sage.) — 
This is erect, branched ; the leaves are lyrate ; 
the flowers in whorled racemes, bluish violet ; 
height, three feet. Flowers in August. 
Salvia glutixosa, (Clammy Sage.) — An 
erect, branching plant, with large ovate-ob- 
long leaves, and whorled racemes of gaping, 
labiate, pale yellow flowers ; height, three feet. 
Flowers in July. 
*f Salvia hiaxs, (Gaping Sage.) — An erect 
branching plant, with broad ovate leaves, with 
a broad arrow-shaped base ; it has whorled 
racemes of showy blue and white, labiate, 
gaping flowers ; height, two feet. Flowers in 
June and July. 
Salvia bicoloe, (Two-coloured Sage.) — 
This is erect, branching ; the leaves are large, 
ovate ; the flowers in whorled racemes, one to 
two feet long ; the upper lip bluish violet 
spotted with white, the lower lip yellow ; 
height, three feet. Flowers in July. 
f Salvia canesceks, (Hoary Sage.) — The 
stems are erect ; the leaves lanceolate oblong ; 
the flowers labiate, in a whorled spike or raceme 
fit the top of the stem, lilac ; height, two feet. 
Flowers in July. 
*f Salvia coxfeetifloea, (Close-flowered 
Sage.) — This is a showy plant, with erect 
stems ; large ovate oblong root leaves ; and a 
long narrow raceme, or spike, of small tubular, 
gaping orange flowers, collected in whorls a 
little distance apart ; height, three feet. 
Flowers in August. 
Saxifeaga ceassifolia, (Thick-leaved 
Saxifrage.) — This has large, thick, obtusely- 
ovate leaves ; and the flowers are produced in 
sub-cymose, dense heads, and are of a pretty 
purple colour ; height, six inches. Flowers 
in April. S. cordifolia a good deal resembles 
this, but has rounder leaves. 
*Saxifeaga umbeosa, (London Pride.) — 
This will grow well even under the drip of 
trees. The leaves are obovate, and crenated ; 
the flower, flesh-coloured, prettily spotted, 
small, star-shaped, numerously produced on 
a branching and spreading stem ; height, 
one foot and a half to two feet. Flowers in 
May, 
*Saxifeaga oppositifolia (Opposite- 
leaved Saxifrage,) — This is a dwarf trailing 
plant, with spreading branches, covered with 
small imbricated leaves, and (comparatively) 
large round purple flowers, studded along 
the branches ; height, three inches, or less. 
Flowers in March. A beautiful plant for 
rock work, and for pot culture. 
Saxifeaga hypnoides, (Hypnum-like 
Saxifraga.) — A dwarf rock plant, with nar- 
row three to seven lobed leaves, growing in a 
dense tuft; the stem bears a few white flowers, 
composed of five ovate petals, forming a star- 
like figure ; height, six inches. Flowers in 
May. There are many varieties of this 
species, so closely resembling each other, as 
to be scarcely distinguishable. 
Saxifeaga teidactylitis, (Three-fingered 
leaved Saxifrage.) — A plant often found on 
old walls, and interesting, as being one of the 
very first British plants to be met with in 
bloom, flowering in March and April, and 
bearing two or three small white flowers i the 
leaves are three-fingered, and, from the 
situation in which they grow (old walls, &c), 
are often quite red ; height, three inches. 
* Saxifeaga geanulata, (Granulated 
Saxifrage.) — This is a showy species, with 
kidney-shaped, lobed leaves, and panicles of 
large white flowers, on an erect stem ; height, 
one foot. Flowers in May and June. There 
is a double variety of this, which is a very 
showy plant. 
*fSciLLA Cupaniaxa, (Cupani's Squill.) — 
Bulbous ; the leaves are lanceolate ; the 
flowers purple, with a bright blue pistil, in 
loose corymbs ; height, one foot. Flowers in 
June. 
*Scilla eifolia, (Two-leaved Squill.) — 
Bulbous ; the leaves linear lanceolate ; the 
flowers small, star-like, blue, in short racemes ; 
height, three inches. Flowers in March and 
April. There are varieties with pink and 
with white flowers. 
*Scilla sibieica, (Siberian Squill.) — Bul- 
bous ; the leaves linear lanceolate ; the flowers 
blue, in a short raceme ; height, three inches. 
Flowers in March. 
Scilla hyacinthoides, (Hyacinth-like 
Squill.) — Bulbous ; the leaves larger than the 
last ; the flowers, in an erect loose spike, blue ; 
height, six inches. Flowers in August. 
Scilla peeuviana, (Corymbose-flowered 
Squill.) — Bulbous ; the leaves are like the 
last ; the flowers in a conical clustered corjonb, 
dark blue ; height, one foot. Flowers in May. 
There are many other species of Scilla, all of 
which are pretty, and worth growing ; blue is 
the prevailing colour, but there are some 
pink, and some white. 
Sedum acee, (Acrid Stone-crop.) — A 
creeping, succulent leaved plant ; the leaves 
ovate, closely pressed to the stem ; the flowers 
in little three-forked heads, small star-like, 
bright golden yellow ; height, three inches. 
Flowers in June. A handsome plant to plant 
on rockwork, on the tops of walls, or in any 
similar situation. 
Sedoti Telephium, (Common Orpine.) — 
This has an erect stem, with large oval, notched 
leaves ; and terminal corymbs of showy rosy 
