The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Anagallis (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about a dozen species, inhabiting Europe, North and South Africa, West Asia, and extra-tropical South Africa, one being scattered over nearly all warm and temperate regions. To those described on pp. 68-9, Vol. I., the following variety is the only plant calling for addition:

A. collina alba (hill-loving, white). fl. white, yellow in the centre, abundantly produced. April to June. l. small, lanceolate. Stems short, erect, crowded, densely set with leaves. 1883. A charming little hardy perennial. (R.G.1125.)

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