OXYTROPIS. 



0. dissitiflora is like a more elegant and charming version of 

 0. grandiflora, with looser heads and rather paler blooms. (East 

 Siberia.) 



0. frigida is probably a mere variety of 0. uralensis. 



0. grandiflora is a hairy thing from the Jenisei, with blossoms of 

 intense pink. 



0. Halleri is a part of De Candolle's O. uralensis, and the part that 

 is found in the Alps of Scotland. It is a beautiful dwarf shaggy tuffet 

 of leaves, with long purple-blue blossoms in fluffy calyces, gathered 

 in four or five, loosely, on stems of an inch or so, often barely above 

 the condensed mass of the shining leaflets, and standing erect in their 

 cluster. It is nowhere really common (though of general distribution), 

 and is especially rare in the Swiss alps. 



0. Lagopus is quite dwarf and dense, silken and silvered, with 

 flowers of bright violet, gathered in half-dozens on stems that surmount 

 the foliage. (From the mountains of Wyoming.) 



0. Lamberti stands not far away from 0. campestris, but is a splendid 

 beauty, adding to the habit of 0. campestris larger bjossoms of violet - 

 purple. 



O. lapponica is said to be unworthy, having a more straggly 

 ascendent habit than these last, with rather thick and long stalks, 

 carrying heads of rather small bluish-lilac flowers, well above the long 

 bright-green, grey-haired leaves. 



0. lazica stands quite close to 0. uralensis, as also do two closely 

 allied plants, species or forms, 0. Szovitsii and the smaller 0. Aucheri. 

 It may be best known from 0. Halleri by its seed-pod folded in on one 

 side only, but on that side so deeply as almost to be divided in two. 



0. montana is perhaps the most generally known and loved in 

 the mountains, where, in the upper, though not the upmost, stone 

 patches and bare spaces at some 7000 feet, or lower, on the limestone 

 Alps, you are sure to find its dark fine bluish leaves (made up of many 

 leaflets) lying out in broad tuffets, while from the crowns spring 

 stems of 3 or 4 inches or so, carrying well-furnished heads of splendid 

 flowers, rich red-purple at first, but soon passing to a soft violet-blue, 

 and declining upon the ground in the end, in the form of aldermanic 

 swollen seed-pods of bright and shining scarlet. It is always a delight 

 to meet with, if not to collect, and may at once be known from 0. lap- 

 ponica, among its many other points of difference, by the shorter 

 segments of the calyx. 



0. midticeps is a silky hoary mat from the granites of the Central 

 Rockies, with weak little stems carrying each one or two purple 

 sweet-peas. 



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