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seWom with white flowers; plant of a creeping habit, but of profusion of 
spring flowers. 
37. Phlox reptans {Phlox repens rerna), another creeping American species, 
with very fine flo\Vers of a pink or mauve color. 
38. Plumbago Larpentce, a very dwarf, shrubby-like plant, with slender wiry 
branches, covered with light green leaves, and in September with close trusses 
of fine blue flowers at the ends of the stems. 
39. Primula cortusoides. This species is most fit for Window Gardening in 
regard of its ea.sy culture; it is a native of Siberia, and bears early in spring 
fine pink flowers. 
40. Primula acaulis fl. pi., of very dwarfish habit, and double flowers of 
white pale hlac, red, j'ellow and purple double colors; shape like small roses. 
41. Pi/siclansthcra harhulata, a very interesting American plant, growing in 
the pine barrens of New Jersey and Carolina, of a moss-like habit, with beauti. 
ful white flowers, which are in not opened buds of a fine rosy tint; a yery 
pretty species; requires sandy peat soil. 
42. Bamonclia pi/renaica, also a very distinct and interesting form; very 
dwarf in habit; leaves stand in rosettes and close on the ground; the large 
flowers on stems of five or six inches in length, are of a purj^le violet, with 
orange yellow centre ; native of the Pyrenees. 
43. Sanguinaria canadensis, the Blood Root, an interesting American plant 
of dwarf habit, and with white flowers early in spring. 
44. Saxifraga aizoon, a native of high European and American mountains, 
with leaves standing like silvery rosettes; a very showy little plant. 
45. Saxifraga cotyledon, habit like silvery rosettes, with elegant pyramids 
of white flowers. 
46. Saxifraga hypnoides, the mossy sasifraga forms, mossy tufts of the deep- 
est green, with small white flowers. 
47. Saxifraga umhrosa, a very interesting species, with broad dark green 
leaves and red spotted white flowers. 
48. Saxifraga sarmentosa and Saxifraga Sieboldii fol. variegata, both specie3 
very well known, are suitable for Alpine groups. 
49. Sedum acre and hexangulare, the common stonecrop with yellow flowers. 
50. Sedum dasyphi/llum., one of the most interesting Alpine plants of a 
glaucous color, with creamy white flowers. 
51. Sedum Sieboldii fol. var., an elegant well known plant, with light pink 
flowers in summer and fall. 
52. Sedum carneum variegatum ; species with fine variegated leaves. 
53. Sempervivum arachnoideum, the cobweb houseleek from the Alps and 
Pyrenees, with fleshy leaves in tiny rosettes, covered at the top with a white 
down-like spider web. 
54. Sempervivum montanum; the leaves are very regularly arranged in fine 
lig,nt green rosettes. 
