8. Pratia angulata Hook. f., and Lobelia linnaeoides Petrie.

By J. B[ayley] B[alfour]. (The Gardener's Chronicle, vol. 47, p. 98. February, 1910.)

Both the above plants are hardy in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. Pratia angulata, although growing in damp situations in New Zealand, and noted by Cockayne as a bog-plant in Stewart Island, when grown in dry sandy soil in the full sun in Edinburgh forms a close carpet on the soil, and every leaf-axil sends up a short-stemmed flower, making during the summer a perfect sheet of white blossom. If the plant be grown in the shade, or where the soil is heavier and moister, the stems arch from the soil, forming more or less of a cushion, grow freely, and the flowers, which are produced in fair abundance, are concealed amongst the greenery and make little show.

L. C.