227, 
Those seeing the Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum, Fig. 24), 
in a city garden with its flannel-like bracts of a dingy gray are 
apt to wonder why so much fuss and furor about so unattractive 
a plant. But they should remember that its bracts are seldom so 
white as when produced under alpine skies and their woolliness 
catches the soot and dust of the city to perfection. 
Fic. 23. Campanula speciosa. (4062) 
The Whitecup (Nierembergia rivularis), a relative of the po- 
tato, not over two inches high, produces its white flowers with a 
yellow throat, which are almost two inches in diameter, from 
June until the fall. 
The dried-up looking Phlox Hoodti, growing in the moraine, 
now surprises us by mantling itself with white flowers, faintly 
tinged with lilac. 
Several varieties of Cranesbill (Geranium) are at their best in 
June. Geranium sanguineum in its larger forms is too rampant 
