180 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
last highest limit of the Alpine pastures, and the first 
stretches of stone that lead upwards to the moraines. 
For the remaining Groundsels, at least those of value for 
our gardens, are genuine Alpines. First of all in order of 
merit, facile princeps in my heart, and certainly the best 
for gardening purposes, is Senecto Doronicum. 'This you 
do not see until Arnica has given up the climb in 
despair, and remains below you on the upper slopes. As 
you go higher and higher, over the fine turf of Alpine 
clover and Azalea procumbens, you come at last upon 
Senecio Doronicum. In growth, shape, and colour of leaf 
this is not unlike pulcher, though rather smaller than 
pulcher at its finest. But the blue-grey leaves, with their 
snowy reverse, the grey stems, the grey calyces are clothed 
with a fine soft tomentum, which gives the whole plant a 
delicate effect of silver. ‘The flower-stalks carry only 
one or two blooms, but these are much larger than those 
of pulcher, and of a fierce, penetrating, deep orange, 
which, for profound intensity of beauty, I can match with 
no other yellow, and which contrasts, too, most gorgeously 
with the moony argent of the leaves. This glowing 
treasure blooms in midsummer, and is far too seldom 
seen in cultivation, being as easy and indestructible as its 
cousin the common Groundsel. Silver tomentum also 
clothes our own very rare native, Senecio spatulaefolius, 
from Mickle Fell, as well as Senecio campestris, of which 
it isa form. But these, with ordinary yellow flowers, are 
so much less lovely than Doronicum that the silver 
tomentum in their case may be called white wool. 
Senecio adonidifolius is a coarse little weed, with ferny 
foliage and wide heads of small golden flowers ; beauti- 
ful little aurantiacus is much smaller, with foliage as fine 
as a Camomile, and fewer, larger flowers of a dark, 
flaming orange. ‘This, however, is a true Alpine, for the 
choicest part of the rock-garden, in granitic soil, and has 
