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240 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
where in Italy, is a thrifty, vigorous little plant, tufted, 
spiny, silvery as Boydi, but evidently more vigorous and 
solid. The flowers, too, are larger than those of Boydi, 
freely borne, and of a pure, exquisite, lemon yellow. So 
far Paulinae is very rare and very wee; when it has 
grown larger I can foresee it will claim high royal rank 
among its kin. Another novelty is pretty Petrarchae, 
also an Italian—like rochelliana in flower, and like Boydi 
in growth. Obristit has not flowered yet, nor has the 
hybrid jaeggeana, but Obristii is clearly a cousin of 
coriophylla. Corymbosa is simply luteo-viridis, dalmatica 
is a twin to aretioeides, and beautiful Burnati is worthy 
of his parents—aeizéon and cochlearis. 
The sad tale of Gentiana bavarica has been told already ; 
and the same sad tale lies against pyrenaica, imbricata, 
and rare little pumila, with four cleft flowers of sombre 
sapphire; and there are but few Gentians that will help 
to glorify the ordinary bog. Pnewmonanthe will lift its 
deep blue trumpets on stiff wiry stems in the heathier, . 
drier corners; arvernensis, being the same plant, but 
magnified, will do likewise in the same conditions; 
septemfida cordifolia, prostrate, with its clusters of 
immense blue blossoms, will flop happily about on a 
damp, well-drained ledge, in any light, rich soil; verna 
and acaulis, in really dry and torrid districts, find their 
only chance of life in the bog, though in nature, and with 
me, in my Alpine air, they would both abhor it and refuse 
to grow; and the glory of asclepiadea has received its 
due place in the larger bog-garden. 
Nor have the Gentians many relatives adapted for the 
marsh; the one noticeable branch of cousins are the 
Swertias. And these are poor relations indeed. The 
essential splendour of the Gentians, of course, is their 
blue; and the Swertias, on leafy stems about a foot 
high, carry loose spikes of starry flowers which are of 
