138 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
fleshy root-stock immediately. Nor, to console myself, do 
I imagine that many people in England are so favoured 
as to find Lewisia T'weedyi a really sound, trustworthy, 
outdoor plant. For pots, perhaps; but for the rock- 
garden it is useless to cope with plants who fly beyond 
any mere soil-requirement, and want you to alter the 
entire climate of the country before they’ll condescend to 
thrive. 
Primula, Gentiana, and Androsace are races far too 
great to be huddled together without distinct and definite 
treatment, but they each have a number of smaller clans 
dependent on them, which give us a few good and one or 
two brilliant plants. The Cyclamens come first, of course, 
and what uninitiated person is there who would believe 
that these are reckoned cousins-german to Primula? 
‘They don’t need detailed discussion, although so charm- 
ing, so I will only say that autumn-blooming Cyclamen 
europaeum is the most delightful of plants for naturalising 
in light, loose woodland, while Cyclamen repandum is very 
bright among the toughest grasses, with its fine flowers 
of a rather fierce magenta-crimson. The most beautiful 
of all, to my mind, is the new and very rare Cyclamen 
libanoticum—a dear little plant of the large-flowered, 
spring-blooming section, with beautiful fleshy leaves, and 
abundance of big, fragrant, peachy-pink blossoms—a trea- 
sure from high glens of Libanos, which prospers with me 
in sheltered places under Cistus Laurifolius and big 
Daphnes. Cyclamen coum, the wee winter-bloomer, I have 
never cared for—the flowers are so preposterously small 
and dull; nor have I collected Cyclamens long enough 
for any discussion of the many confusing names that fog 
the race; europaeum, neapolitanum, and hederaefolium 
being all very close together, if not mere varieties or 
synonyms; while vernwm does duty for repandum, and 
ibericum with its form Atkinst are twins to coum. 
