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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
tree in the Al- 
liance. In the 
warm regions 
they are some- 
times shrubby, 
but the greater 
number of those 
in c u 1 tivation 
are showy-flow- 
ering herbs, 
producing sev- 
eral of the finest 
sea r 1 e t s and 
blues available 
for the hardy 
garden. Many 
of the species 
are bog plants 
or aquatics, and 
such as grow in 
sterile places 
are in company 
with other 
plants which 
partially shade 
and shelter 
them. They do not receive the attention they 
deserve, for hundreds of cottage gardens may be 
CAMPANULA MEDIUM VAR. 
examined that are quite without any of them. 
Candollea is an Australian genus of 87 spe- 
CAMPANULA PERSICI FOLIA. 
LOBAILE ERIN OS VAR. 
cies, two or three of 
which are widely 
diffused. S e veral 
are good-sized 
shrubs with yellow 
flower s — probably 
adaptable to parts 
of California. 
Leschenaultia is 
in 1 8 species, also 
from A u s tralia. 
They are low ever- 
greens, often with handsome flowers, but almost 
unknown to American gardens. Velleia, Goodenia, 
Scmvola, Dampiera and 
Brunonia are other genera 
occasionally met with in 
the Botanic Gardens of the 
sub-tropics, and the better 
class of European gardens. 
S y p h o c a mp y hi s is 
a genus of maybe ioo spe- 
cies found in the West In- 
dies, Central and tropical 
America and the Andes. 
There are many handsome 
some sub-shrubs and herbs 
among them with flowers in 
various shades of red, rose, 
and purple, often more or 
less mixed with yellow. 
The plant known in green- 
houses as S. bicolor is a 
Lobelia, it is said. 
Isotoma, in g species, 
are from the Society 
Islands, Australia and the 
West Indies. They are perennials, with reddish, 
blue, or white flowers. Some, perhaps, are adapt- 
able to Pacific Coast gardens.. 
LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 
deb i 1 1 i s is a 
monotypic Cal- 
ifornian plant 
— an example 
of several 
plants of the 
tribe Lobeleise 
found o n the 
Pacific coast. 
The best of 
these are often 
handsome 
plants, extending southwards through the moun- 
tains of Central .America, and tender at the north 
Lobelia has 200 species (in 8 sections): 24 
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