. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 136 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. tube much puffed out, the limb expanding1 regularly lite a miniature gloxinia, the colour pale red. Cup/tea verticillata is a nearly hardy species of moderate growth, the flower tube yellowish-red, the limb expanding irregularly and curiously, the colour violet. The cupheas belong to the family of loosestrifes, of which perhaps the best-known garden flowers are the lysimachias. That any of these will stop strife will of course be understood, or why should they have such a collective and enviable
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 136 FAMILIAR GARDEN FLOWERS. tube much puffed out, the limb expanding1 regularly lite a miniature gloxinia, the colour pale red. Cup/tea verticillata is a nearly hardy species of moderate growth, the flower tube yellowish-red, the limb expanding irregularly and curiously, the colour violet. The cupheas belong to the family of loosestrifes, of which perhaps the best-known garden flowers are the lysimachias. That any of these will stop strife will of course be understood, or why should they have such a collective and enviable name ? Hear what the great Pliny saith : "If a pair of yoked oxen quarrel, a branch of loosestrife laid upon their shoulders will effect an in- stantaneous and perfect ; Dodoens, speak- ing of the yellow lysimachia, says : " The perfume of this herbe dryed, driueth away all Serpentes and venemous beasts, and killeth flies and ' Gerarde makes a variation on the drying of the perfume by saying, " The smoke of the burned herbe driueth away serpents;'' and he quotes Pliny to the effect that " it dieth haire yellow; which is not very vnlike to be done by reason the flowers are yellow.'". Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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