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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Eritrichium (This genus comprises about)

Erythrina
Erythrina

This genus comprises about seventy species. Flowers blue or white, in simple or branched racemes, or rarely nearly all axillary; calyx deeply five-cleft or five-partite; corolla tube short or rarely longer than the calyx, the lobes five, imbricated, obtuse, spreading; stamens five, affixed to the tube, included. Nutlets four, or fewer by abortion. Leaves alternate or (in very few species) opposite, usually narrow. To the species described on p. 529, Vol. 1., the following should now be added: E. barbigerum (beard-bearing). fl. white, small, much resembling those of a Myosotis, disposed in branching, scorpioid cymes; calyx lobes linear, about 1/4in. long. Summer and autumn. l. lanceolate. California, 1886. A pretty annual; the whole plant clothed with long, spreading hairs. (R. G. 1886, pp. 358-9, f. 42; R.H. 1885, p. 552, f. 99.)

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