COMPOSITAE 131 
the Old Garden—above whose glossy leaves its little 
purplish clouds come hovering indomitably each July. 
Adenostyles marks a doubt in my mind. I believe that 
the plant I got with great effort from shady rocks near 
Rosenlaui is not, as I had always thought, an Adenostyles, 
but really the true Mulgedium alpinum, a beautiful tall 
plant, with blue Dandelion flowers, of which Plumieri is 
an exaggerated variety. As for the genuine Adenostyles 
—the stout pink thing, with triangular leaves, white 
underneath, that you find in the high pastures of Switzer- 
land, is Adenostyles alpina—not a very interesting species, 
and one that I have never bothered to collect—while the 
only plant of the Dandelion group I have ever liked is the 
white form of the common Dandelion itself, which grows 
all over Tokio to the exclusion of the yellow type. Now 
I have seed of this, and hope it may prove true. 
Of the Centaureas very few are really beautiful, I 
think, though several are interesting for sterile banks. 
Montana is quite useful thus, in all its varieties, and I 
grow also rutaefoka—a stragegler, with whitish leaves 
and pretty, red flowers; and also another white plant, 
ragusina compacta. 'Vhe Golden Rods, to me, are all 
coarse and quite unworthy of culture, without exception ; 
and the Hawkweeds, even, though pretty, are too dangerous 
to admit. But valdepilosum is attractive, and so is auran- 
tiacum, but a dreadful irrepressible weed. 
