. 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. igB OnagrariecB—Epilobiiini. ordinary wild one in its larger flowers and shorter seed-vessels. There is also a good white variety. 2. ZAUSCHNERIA. A genus of one herbaceous species having the same quaternary structure of the flowers and plumose seeds as Epilobium, but the calyx is coloured, and the tube prolonged above the ovary. A commemorative name. 1
. 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. igB OnagrariecB—Epilobiiini. ordinary wild one in its larger flowers and shorter seed-vessels. There is also a good white variety. 2. ZAUSCHNERIA. A genus of one herbaceous species having the same quaternary structure of the flowers and plumose seeds as Epilobium, but the calyx is coloured, and the tube prolonged above the ovary. A commemorative name. 1. Z. Calif or nica.—A much-branched dwarf plant bearing sessile linear-lanceolate pubescent leaves and axillary solitary sessile scarlet flowers with a long slender projecting style, resembling those of a Fuchsia. It is a native of California, flowering in June. 3. CLARKIA. Elegant slender branching annual plants with linear or lanceolate leaves and solitary or racemose flowers. Parts of the flower in fours. Petals clawed, often deeply 3-lobed. Capsule linear, many-seeded ; seeds neither plumose nor winged. Only four species are known, all from North-west America. Named after Captain Clark, a traveller. 1. C. pulchella (fig. 105). This ^Tows from 18 inches to 2 feet high, with glabrescent linear leaves and large flowers having deeply trilo- bate petals with a pair of small op- posite teeth on the claws. Under cultivation this has given birth to a double variety, and the flowers vary in colour from lilac-purple to white. There is also a variety with entire petals. 2. C. elegans.—A rather smaller flowered species. Leaves lanceolate, dentate. Petals entire, without teeth on the claw. C. gauroldes, syn. C rhomboldea, is a less attractive species with smaller purplish Fig. 105. Clarkia puluhcUa. (i nat. size.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of thes
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