230 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
except to say that pretty, scentless, white neapolitanum 
is hardy, that blue kansuense, rosy, big-flowered ostrow- 
skyanum, pretty, pink pulchellum, wee hierochunticum are 
all attractive and often inoffensive ; common yellow Moly 
is good for a rough, dryish bank, unworthy of choicer 
stuff. Erdelit is a large, hideous novelty, with globes 
of dullest grey-white; Schwberti is an immense, weird 
creature, with huge, round, bomb-like heads of pink, pro- 
jecting more flowers on longer stems all over the ball, in 
the wildest and most Struewel-Peter manner. T'rique- 
trum, again, is pretty, of a dead, dull white, looking like 
the ghost of a dead white bluebell, sodden in water. 
This fills every vineyard in Liguria, and is a great rarity 
in the neighbourhood of Bristol. 
And so we shake off the malodorous memory of the 
Garlics and go forward, topping the slope, and finding 
ourselves at last in the upmost levels. Now the stream 
flows gently, between banks that are clothed with the 
rosy snow of S%lene acaulis, so dense with flower that each 
yard-wide plant seems a mere mat of colour.  S%lene 
acaulis has a vast woody taproot, impossible of collection, 
but comes well from seed, and grows well, too, in any 
open, well-drained place on the rock-work. But in culti- 
vation it never flowers with anything approaching its 
proper generosity. Perhaps the moraine-garden may 
cause it to wake up. Ewscapa is a form differing only in 
the fact that the flowers have minute stems instead of 
sitting flat on the cushion, and sazatilis, as far as I can see, 
is indistinguishable. Silene rupestris is a pretty white- 
flowered biennial for dryish places; S%lene alpestris, de- 
spite its name, is a bog-plant of the very highest rank, 
loving any fairly moist corner, and running riot in a mass 
of narrow, glossy leaves, sending up, on stems of about a 
foot, abundant loose showers of white flowers, circular, 
and delicately notched all round. It seeds, too, in pro- 
