ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLANTS 231 



lighter eye, freely produced in April. Of fairly easy culture, and 

 increased by seed or division. 



A. latiuginosa. — Half-shady position in good loam. Forms 

 trailing, many branched stems, with leaves nearly an inch long, and 

 covered with white silky hairs. Of fairly rapid growth in a position 

 it likes. Delicate, rose-coloured flowers, with a yellow eye, borne 

 in umbels, and freely produced from May to October. Hardy and 

 easily propagated by seeds or layers. It is advisable, when possible, 

 to protect from rain during the winter. A most attractive plant, 

 which should be so placed that its trailing stems can fall down over 

 some rock. 



A. l. Leichtlini (syn. A. Ocula^a).— Plant to fall over the edge of 

 a rock in a half-shady position. Prefers a light, limestone soil. 

 Foliage not so downy, and flowers larger and of a paler colour 

 than the last, of which it is a variety. Quite hardy, and of easy 

 culture in light soils. 



A.primuloides. — Likes a sheltered, half-shady situation, protected 

 from moisture overhead, in gritty soil. Forms rosettes of bright 

 green leaves and produces rosy-lilac flowers. A rare species, but 

 no better than many of those better known. 



A. pubescens. — Sunny crevice in deep, sandy, gritty peat. 

 Densely packed, rather hoaiy leaves, with large, solitary white 

 flowers scarcely rising above the plant. Flowering freely in July, 

 it is of easy culture, and is a very attractive little plant. 



A. pyre7taica. — Requires fissures in rocks in deep, sandy, and 

 peaty loam. It can also be grown on the level in similar soil and 

 protected from drought by half-buried stones. Forms a compact 

 mass of tiny grey, downy rosettes. The flowers are white, with a 

 yellow eye, and rise about ^ to j of an inch over the plant. It is 

 closely allied to A. helvetica and A. imbricata^ and is not of 

 particularly easy cultivation. 



A. sarmentosa. — Prefers an open, sunny situation in deep, well- 

 drained, sandy loam mixed with limestone. Forms dense rosettes 

 of silvery foliage, from which spring runners bearing rosettes at 

 their extremities, which, if pegged down and covered with sandy 

 soil, will root quickly. Flowers, which are freely produced, are 

 rose-coloured, with a white eye, and borne in trusses, rather resem- 

 bling the Verbena. Blooms in May. Of easy culture. It is very 

 advisable to protect during the winter with a sheet of glass. The 

 surface of the ground under the rosettes should be covered with 

 finely broken sandstone to keep them dry. 



A. s. Chicmbyi. — It requires the same treatment as A. sar?nentosa^ 

 which it much resembles, except that it is a stronger-growing plant 

 and the flower is deeper in colour and borne on shorter stems. 

 It is quite one of the best species of this attractive genus, and 



