148 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
Of the Snapdragons, those who wish can naturalise 
Antirrhinum majus in any or all of its forms on sunny 
rocks; I content myself with several less showy yet 
equally pretty southerners—asarinum, sempervirens, and 
glutinosum. Of these asarinum has fleshy, trailing stems, 
with large, soft, rounded leaves and a quantity of big 
creamy Snapdragons nestling among them, while semper- 
virens and glutinosum make stiffish little bushes among 
the rocks, with quantities of smaller blossoms along Shel 
small-leaved, greyish branches. These are all lovers of 
drought and sun; therefore of doubtful hardiness in 
many parts of England. But these half-hardies, as the 
lady says of English women in ‘ Le Monde ov Von s‘ennuie,’ 
‘ont daimables surprises, and I, who had always found 
sempervirens and glutinosum dead after an average 
winter, am now overwhelmed with astonishment to see 
that they have sailed triumphantly through the mon- 
strous inclemencies of 1906-7, and are breaking up into 
vigorous little masses once again. Asarinum I planted 
high and dry; and yet I have known some incalculable 
survivals here and there in the dampest, dankest, most 
unpromising places. 
Linaria anticaria is a pretty dwarf thing, rather like a 
much magnified Linaria alpina, with flowers which vary 
infinitely from seed—some being dowdy and quite un- 
worthy, while others are very fascinating—white and 
velvety brown. Linaria repens is abudaalon on the walls 
of Oxford and elsewhere, a tall plant with very long 
close spikes of tiny purple flowers. ‘This plant is only 
admissible into the roughest wilds, for it ramps most 
grievously and makes itself quite a nuisance. Its variety 
alba has rather larger flowers, set more loosely on shorter 
spikes, and altogether is much slighter in growth and 
more graceful in effect. But even this should be used 
with caution. Linaria dalmatica and Linaria dalmatica 
