238 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
Ox-eye, and carried on stems about three or four inches 
from the ground. Lapponicum and nipponicum are very 
close cousins, even if not actually brother-forms of the 
same Alpine and high-Arctic species. Chrysanthemum 
Zawadskyi is another bog-plant of easy culture—rather 
taller than alpinum, rising to five or six inches, with 
ferny foliage and stocky, stolid flowers, whose white 
is tinged with soft pink. As for Chrysanthemum 
Tchihatchewi, this must go far, far from the bog, a 
ramping, ferny carpeter, making wide mats over the 
driest, rubbliest places. Its beauty is its foliage, its 
recommendation its violently robust habit, and its love 
of hopeless, worthless, dry places where nothing else will 
grow; its flowers, on five-inch stems, are rather small 
dull daisies, white, with greenish-yellow eyes. Most 
august of the family, of course, is Chrysanthemum 
indicum, the parent of a priceless garden race; but 
Chrysanthemum indicum has no other claim to a place, 
for it is a tall, leafy, gawky weed, with heads of minute, 
uninteresting flowers. 
For the very choicest corners of the bog, in fine, damp 
shingle, very rough and fiercely drained, should go some 
of the marsh Saxifrages—our own rare Hirculus, in its 
variety major; its Arctic cousin flagellaris—if you can 
get hold of it; androsacea, if you think its small flowers 
of dullish milk-white are worth the trouble. Stedlaris is 
so easy that you can put it in any very wet place; so is 
rotundifolia from the woods below ; biflora, on the other 
hand, lovely frail trailer with its great crimson-purple 
flowers, this, although luxuriating in the wet grey 
glacier-mud when at home, is more difficult to please 
when out on a visit—alas! as a rule, not sojourning long 
in one stay despite the best attention. It requires very 
careful treatment in the cool, well-drained rock-work. As 
for aeizocides, this is quite a rampant grower, and may 
