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purple, the two upper petals having a dark blotch 
at the base. An elegant plant for the rockery. E. 
Manescavi is a good border plant, 1 to 2 feet high, 
with numbers of purple-red flowers well above its 
deeply cut leaves. 
ERYNGIUM (Sea Holly ).— Ornamental plants of the 
Carrot family, remarkable for their spiny leaves, and 
the still more spiny and conspicuous bracts which sur- 
round the dense roundish heads of flowers. The 
perennial kinds flourish in a well-drained, dryish 
garden soil, and may be increased by careful division 
of the rootstocks in spring, from seed, or by means 
of root cuttings inserted in sandy soil in a cold 
frame in October. The finest species is amethystinum, 
which grows about 2 feet high, having spiny- 
lobed leaves and bright steel-blue or amethyst- 
purple flowers and bracts. (See Plate 28, fig. 75.) 
E. Oliverianum is often confused with this species, 
but is a taller growing plant with steel-blue flowers 
and bracts. Other species are aljpinum, Bourgati, 
coeruleum, giganteum, maritimum (the common British 
Sea Holly), and planum. In addition to these there 
are a few kinds with large, strap-shaped, spiny-toothed 
leaves that attract attention, such as agavxfolium, 
bromelisefolium, eburneum , and pandansefolium, all easily 
raised from seed, and suitable for lake margins, &c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA californica. — This free-flower- 
ing plant, sometimes called the “ Californian Poppy,” 
flourishes in any garden soil, but delights in abun- 
dance of sunlight to display to full advantage its 
brilliant orange-yellow blossoms above the finely- 
divided glaucous green leaves. Numerous forms 
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