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RUELLIA strepens. One to 4 feet high, with blue or purple flowers in axillary Each Doz. Each Doz. 
clusters. Summer. $0 20 $0 25 
SALVIA lyrata. Ten to 20 inches high ; flowers bluish purple, in a spiked raceme . 
SANGUINARIA canadensis (Bloodroot). Has very pretty white flowers, in 
early spring, an inch or two wide, followed by large heart-shaped leaves, which 
remain until nearly autumn. It will do well in shade, and on this account is 
one of the most valuable for the shady corner. 
SAPONARIA ocymoides (Rock Soapwort). A very pretty trailing perennial, 
with an abundance of rose-purple flowers. Very useful in rockwork, or to 
mass in the border, where a good bed will show a solid mass of color in 
its season. Switzerland and Italy. June.Seeds, 8 cts. per pkt. . 
SCUTELLARIA alpina. 
SEDUM. A very large genus, comprising more than a hundred species of plants, 
mostly hardy and natives of temperate or frigid regions. Their flowers are 
mostly white or yellow, sometimes pink or blue, usually in cymes, but occasion¬ 
ally axillary. The following are hardy, and of easy culture on any good 
ground. 
S. acre (Mossy Stonecrop). A pretty species for rockwork; well-known and 
considerably used.....• . . . 
S. Aizoon (S. Maximozviczii ). Flowers yellow, opening in a dense, flat, 
spreading cyme in late summer. Stems erect, about a foot high. Japan . . . 
. .. Seeds, 5 cts. per pkt. . 
S. hybridum. A low-spreading species, with yellow flowers. Fine for rock¬ 
work. June. 
S. maximum. Flowers white, with red spots. Stems 
1 to 2 feet high ; erect. Europe and Asia. 
S. Nevii. A fine species from the south. Flowers white, 
forming dense tufts or mats. Fine for edging or the 
rock-garden. 
S. ternatum. Stems spreading; 3 to 6 inches high; 
flowers white. An interesting form. 
SIDALCEA Candida. A malvaceous plant from Colo¬ 
rado, with white flowers . . . Seeds, 5 cts. per pkt. . 
SILENE orientalis . .....* . 
S. Pumilio. Low tufted plant, with good-sized rose- 
purple flowers coming out around the base. June . . 
S. virginica (Fire Pink). Flowers deep crimson, few, 
and loosely cymose. About a foot high. June . . . 
SISYRINCHIUM grandiflorum. A pretty rose-flowered 
species from the Pacific coast; 10 or 12 inches high. 
Spring. 
SMILACINA stellata. A foot high, with dark green 
silene - leaves ; white flowers in a raceme ; fruit striped with 
red. May. 
SPICELIA marilandica (Maryland Pink Root). Six to 18 inches high ; flowers 
a little more than an inch long, cardinal-red outside, yellow within. 
SPIR/EA Filipendula (Dropwort). Flowers white or rose outside; stem 2 to 
3 feet high, grooved, erect, with a few small leaves. Tuberous-rooted herba¬ 
ceous perennial. June and July. A native of Europe. 
S. palmata, var. elegans. 
S. Ulmaria, var aurea ... . 
STACHYS Betonica (Belonica officinalis , Bishop’s-wort, or Wood Betony). 
Stem 6 inches to 2 feet high ; reddish purple flowers. June to August. Europe. 
S. lanata. Flowers striped, in many flowered whorls; leaves thick, soft and 
woolly. A fine border plant. June and July.Seeds, 5 cts. per pkt. . 
3 TATICE latifolia. A native of southern Russia, about a foot high ; flowers blue, 
in slightly recurved spikes. Hardy. June. 
STYLOPHORUM diphyllum (Celandine. Poppy). This is rather an interesting 
plant, a foot or so high, and bearing, in early spring, numerous light yellow 
flowers... 
f'HALICTRUM corynellum ( T. polygamuni, Tall Meadow Rue). A stately 
plant when growing in rich, moist soil. Flowers white; foliage good . . . 
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