Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . figure. The pleasing half-trailingmanner in which it sends forth its numerous stems, so as to compose a broad and 198 PENTSTEMON CRASSIFOLIUS. yet dense bush, adapt it for planting by itself in borders, and also fit it for growingin masses. We saw a bed of it in blossom last spring, and the effect was trulysplendid. When propagated, which it can be by cuttings, or by pulling off the shootswhich happen to have lain on the earth and rooted, it demands no subsequentculture. A loamy soil, such as exists in most good gardens, will be pe
Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants . figure. The pleasing half-trailingmanner in which it sends forth its numerous stems, so as to compose a broad and 198 PENTSTEMON CRASSIFOLIUS. yet dense bush, adapt it for planting by itself in borders, and also fit it for growingin masses. We saw a bed of it in blossom last spring, and the effect was trulysplendid. When propagated, which it can be by cuttings, or by pulling off the shootswhich happen to have lain on the earth and rooted, it demands no subsequentculture. A loamy soil, such as exists in most good gardens, will be perfectlysuitable, and when the plant is four or five years old, as it is apt to get ragged andshabby in the centre, it should be separated, and the divisions transferred to anydesired position. In dividing it, the older portions may be thrown away, andonly the younger and more vigorous pieces be transplanted. A light open situation should always be chosen for it, and it will not thrive ina low wet locality. At all times it loves to have plenty of sun and / :S.;;\ ^-^, ^c ScAc^ cdloj^MA^i^clca^/ ECHITES ATROPURPUREA. classPENTANDRIA. (Dark purple-flowered Echites.) Natural Order. APOCYNACEJi;. Order. MONOGYNIA. Generic Character. — Calyx small, salver-shaped, with a naked throat and tube ;segments of the limb unequal-sided. Stamens enclosed ;anthers sagittate, cohering by their middle to thestigma, having the hind lobes without pollen. Ovariatwo. Style one, filiform. Hypogynoiis scales of two slender follicles. Specific Character.—Plant an evergreen twiner. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptical, acuminate, entire,smooth, and shining. Peduncles axillary, two or moreflowered. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx of five equalsubulate segments. Corolla with a tube two incheslong, slender at bottom, becoming inflated towards thetop ; segments broadly ovate, rather unequal, acumi-nate, deep brownish purple. Stamens affixed to thetube of th
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