Archive image from page 232 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 SILENE SILPHIUM 1GC9 8. petrJea, Walldst. & Kit. Tufted subshrub, 4 in. higli: Ivs. linear: fls. small, solitary; calyx club-shaped ; petals bitid, with a bifid appendage, and eiliate on the claw. Caucasus. —F
Archive image from page 232 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches cyclopediaofamer04bail4 Year: 1900 SILENE SILPHIUM 1GC9 8. petrJea, Walldst. & Kit. Tufted subshrub, 4 in. higli: Ivs. linear: fls. small, solitary; calyx club-shaped ; petals bitid, with a bifid appendage, and eiliate on the claw. Caucasus. —Fls. white, according to J. Woodward Manning. 9. Caucfisica, Boiss. This and S. ValUsia are peren- nial, alpine, white-fid. plants i-'i in. high, with the flowering stems laterally ascending from a terminal rosette of Ivs.: the stems are usually 1-tid., sometimes 2-3- fld.: Ivs. oblong or lanceolate: calyx 10-nerved, not inflated after anthesis. Caucasus. For distinctions from 5. VaUesia, see that species. 10. vallesia, Linn. Swiss Catchfly. a very rare plant found in the highest and most sterile parts of the Alps, differing from ,S. Caucaslca in being glandular, rather than velvety, the stem-lvs. long, the fls. long-peduncled and the calyx more widely inflated. 11. alpstris, Jacq. Alpine Catchfly. Perennial white- fld. plant ti in. high, the fls. borne in panicles : stems tufted, dichotomous : fls. in corymbose panicles; calyx short, top-shaped to bell- shaped, 10-nerved. not enlarged after anthesis; petals 4-Iobed at apex and provided with 2 teeth at the base of each petal in the throat; seed cristate-cili- ate on the margin. Eastern Eu. — It forms a dense mass of un- derground stems and is easily prop, by division or seeds. One of the best. 12. ScMfta, G. Gmel. Au- tumn Catchfly. Woody- rooted perennial G in. high, with rosy fls. borne on stems which arise laterally from the rosettes of Ivs.: Ivs. obovate: fls erect; calyx 10-nerved, not inflated after anthesis; petals we
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