. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. C niciferic—Cardaiuinc. 47 2. Q. latifolia (fig. 34).—A tall-growing Spanish species with purple flowers, appearing in June. It inhabits swampy places. 3. C. trifolia.—A distinct little plant, about 9 inches high, with glabrous trifoliate leaves and dense corynabs of small pure white flowers. A native of Switzerland, flowering in Spring. 5. LUJSrlRIA. B
. Handbook of hardy trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants ... Based on the French work of Messrs. Decaisne and Naudin ...entitled 'Manuel de l'amateur des jardins,' and including the original woodcuts by Riocreux and Leblanc. Plants, Ornamental. C niciferic—Cardaiuinc. 47 2. Q. latifolia (fig. 34).—A tall-growing Spanish species with purple flowers, appearing in June. It inhabits swampy places. 3. C. trifolia.—A distinct little plant, about 9 inches high, with glabrous trifoliate leaves and dense corynabs of small pure white flowers. A native of Switzerland, flowering in Spring. 5. LUJSrlRIA. Biennial or perennial pilose herbs with erect branching stems and cordate simple dentate petiolate lea\-es and ter- minal racemes of purple flowers. This genus is remarkable for the oval or oblong compressed stipitate siliquas, whose transparent silvery partition is persistent after the valves have fallen away. Only two species are known ; natives of Central Europe and Western Asia. Name from luna, the moon, the shape of the seed-vessel. 1. L. biennis, syn. L. annua (fig. 35).—This is the plant familiarly known as Honesty. A biennial, from 2 to 3 feet high, with large purplish-violet flowers. There is also a white variety. May to July. 2. L. —A perennial species, not so pretty as tlie above, with smaller pale blue flowers and a smaller seed- pouch. 6. AUBRIETIA. A genus of small dwarf trailing hairy herbs with small entire or toothed leaves and rather large purple flowers. In character it is very close to Alfjs- suvi, with the exception of the lateral sepals being saccate at the base. There are about six species known, from the Mediterranean region. Named in honour of a French botanical draughtsman. 1. A. deltoidea (fig. 36).— There are several varieties of this, differing in the size and brilliancyof their flowers from the typical plant. The best one in cultivation is that named Camp- bellii, which is much larger in the a 1 „^^«^^-,4-l,^ ^ A,^^ . Fig. 3
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