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UPTON GARDENS 
LUPINUS alpestris, Mountain Lupine. Dignified spikes of blue-purple 
above soft green palmate foliage. Seed only. 
LYCHNIS montana, Miniature Jack-o-lantern. Flower and seed pod 
attractively zebra-striped. Alpine, easy to grow. 
MALVASTRUM coccineum, Prairie Mallow. Flowers of brilliant orange- 
red silky sheen, well set off by incised gray felt foliage. Sunny 
dry banks. 6 inches. 
MELAMPODIUM cinereum, Colorado Rock Daisy. Clear white helianthe- 
mum-like flowers. Small neat plants with aspirations toward 
shrubbiness. A really valuable find for the sunny rock garden; 
continuous bloom. 6 inches. 
MENTZELIA, Evening Star. Dry sunny banks. 
multiflora. Bright yellow pointed petals, decorative stamens. 
nuda. Creamy white; also well branched white stems. Both species 
open late afternoon. 1 to 2 ft. 
MERTEN SI A, Chiming Bells. Moist shade. 
ciliata, Languid Lady. Tall, graceful gray-green foliage remains 
attractive after light blue flowers have fallen. 1 to 2 ft. 
coriarea (alpina). Pikes Peak Forget-me-not. One of the bluest blue 
flowers. Much neater than mertensias generally; caespitose, al¬ 
pine. A glorious splash of the blue of Colorado sky in the 
rock garden. 
lanceolata. A small, narrow-leaved M. ciliata from open hillsides; 
early, but shyly hangs its head. 10 inches. 
MIMULUS, Monkey Flower. 
langsdorfli. Two-lipped yellow flowers freakishly spotted with dark 
red; bright green foliage. 1 ft. At home along stream banks. 
Plants only; seed sometimes available. 
MIRABIEIS, Wild Four-o’clock. 
multiflora. Magenta flowers, well-clothed stems, ,widely branched. 
2 ft. Not so mirabilis. 
MONARDA, Horsemint. 
flstulosa (menthaefolia). Cluster of purple gaping mouths; a fra¬ 
grant plant. 1 y -2 ft. Plants only; seed sometimes available. 
MONESES uniflora. Star Flowered Pyrola. A pert white star tipped on 
edge. Demands dense shade and is happy only on a rotted log. 
4 inches. Plants only. 
MONTIA chamissonis. Water Spring Beauty. A halo of white flowers; 
succulent foliage. Good bog plant; stoloniferous. Plants only. 
NYMPHAEA polysephala. Water Lily. Clear lemon yellow flowers, 2 to 
3 inches broad; on alpine lakes. Plants only. 
OENOTHERA, see Pachylophus. 
ONAGRA strigosa, Evening Primrose. Yellow-flowered spikes, 2 to 3 ft. 
Annual, seed only. 
OREOXIS (Cymopteris). 
alpina, Alpine Parsley. Cymes of buttery yellow and burnt orange 
flowers, dwarf. 
OXYRIA digyna, Alpine Sorrel. Ruddy racemes, of sepals and seed 
pods, rising from small round leaves. A good little plant for 
moist shade. 
PACHYLOPHUS (Oenothera). 
eaespitosus, Fragrant Primrose. Large white flowers fading to pink; 
good clean foliage; the flattest of the family. An excellent cover¬ 
ing for sunny gravel slopes. 
