MORE OF THE SMALLER BOG-PLANTS 237 
CHAPTER 21! 
Wore of the Smaller Bog-plants 
In this long interval, while we have been pursuing our 
stream without comment, we have mounted past the 
limits of the grass, over a final tract of Ranunculus 
pyrenaeus, and are wandering amid the soaking shingle, 
where the river is born, and lies hidden at his source like 
Iamos, in beds of blossom. And this is Ranunculus 
glacialis, whose snowy, great cups glitter everywhere 
above the wet and glistening stones. Beyond there is 
nothing more, except, perhaps, one golden flare, amid the 
greyness, of Geum reptans. All around are Androsace 
glacialis, Campanula cenisia, Viola cenisia, Gentiana 
brachyphylla, Chysanthemum alpinum, Myosotis rupicola, 
Papaver alpinum, Iberidella, Ranunculus alpestris, the 
ugly little forms of Savifraga varians, Saxifraga Andro- 
sacea, and Saxifraga biflora. But of these only the 
Saxifraga varieties, the Androsace, the Ranunculus and 
the Chrysanthemum, inhabit the wettest places; and in 
cultivation wet is fatal for both the Androsace and the 
Saxifrage. Chrysanthemum alpinum is a pretty little 
creature, though, and very fairly easy to establish in the 
shingle of the bog or the moraine-garden. It has 
camomilish leaves, quite bright and glossy green, with 
impressive snow-white flowers, golden-eyed, and exactly 
like those of its big cousin, Chysanthemum leucanthemum, 
of every English hayfield, though a little smaller than the 
