64 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
hetericoma. 'The other species all bear a very strong 
family resemblance to these, and none of them have any 
radiant loveliness, though I make one exception in favour 
of the rare dicranoeides, who has well-built, solid little 
flowers of a soft, pure yellow. He is thriving in the 
moraine, of which he is well worthy; and as for the 
others, their only need is a sunny crevice. The one 
species that does sound exciting is Draba violacea, a deep 
purple-flowered plant from the Quito Andes. 
There are a few other dwarf Crucifers of moderate 
merit. Hutchinsia alpina is a common, pretty little 
thing, which soon, if you are not careful, eats you out of 
house and home, by seeding itself everywhere. Not to 
mention that the plant itself runs about and ramps in a 
deceptively modest way, which conceals its depredations 
till too late, when you suddenly find a dying sprout of 
Androsace villosa gasping piteously at you out of a dense 
impracticable jungle of Hutchinsia. But the invader is 
such a pleasant-looking, hearty thing that I never have 
the heart to wage internecine war upon him. I have not 
admitted him to the New Garden, though. 
Cochlearia alpina is a dwarf plant, with glossy, heart- 
shaped leaves in a neat rosette, and white flowers, which 
occurs rarely in England, at high elevations, and haunts 
the western face of Ingleborough. It is fairly pretty for 
the garden, but tends to grow rank, and revert to its 
type. Parrya Menziesii, from the Rockies, I have only 
just got. It is a near cousin of Awbrietia, with purple 
lowers, that promises to be charming. M€egacarpaea 
polyandra is a rare, tall plant, of which I have one 
stout seedling who is now reappearing for the second 
season. I don’t know what he will be like, except that 
he is bound to be robustious and big. Heaven send he 
bear no resemblance to my pet dislikes—the Honesties 
and single Rockets ! 
