PAPA YE R. 



belongs to the Eastern chains, in the high limestones of the Karawan- 



ken and Julia: . where in the austere shingles its orbs of gold 



. the lost moonlit citrons of P. m left behind in 



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P. pyrenaicum is the second branch of the alpine race, inhabiting 



the same stony places, but usually rather higher up and not descending 



so low. It is not always quite so woody in its masses, but very dense 



in their tufts. by its foliage, which is soft to the 



touch, and all covered u ding hair ; while the grey leaves 



themselves are only lobed and cut about ov.ee. with perhaps a tooth here 



and there on the . have a wholly different and 



quite simple e:: f great ] at all fernlike, but suggesting 



a small neat g:- T: amplitude of noble blossom is 



the same. but as i: pe of P. alpinum is white, so 



that of P. pyrt he two specie* thus 



ich other's order : the main form of P. alpinum 



Dow development., while 



yellow is the main type of P. pyrenaicum, which has a corresponding 



divagation into whi t the diagnostic) ; the white 



mites are filled with the lovely blue-grey masses 



and big lemon -pale orbs of P. rhaeticum, the first type-species of 



P. pyrenaieum — a lovely citron-coloured unvarying development 



(thoL. -and specimens you may see one of a more 



orange tone). Its range is :':■ m the Pyrenees to the Terglou. &c. ; 



rare in Central Switzerland, but not uncommon in the Engadine. 



orange-flowered form called 

 P. p. aura ; while £ dtneri is the second 



main Sjexmg in nothing from P. rhaeticum but 



that the hairs are more rusty and the flowers pun white. This is 

 P. Burseri B hi . and occurs on the Northern limestones here and 

 there, from Pfls Id cultivation all these gleaming 



jewels of the highest sere- - a By for the moraine, 



in wi are much safer and happier and long-lived than in the 



damper conditions of full soil ; as well as looking so much more char- 

 me time they will thrive heartily and sow them- 

 selves freely in air: liable place, and in the course of 



varieties of colour, at least in the 

 : r —i he finer thing — is much more 



seldom seen in cult i vat k: o need to specify these forms. 



:. will all be found in catal i t particularly beauti- 



ful probably ow< g in reality to tj • as it has 



blossoms of pure soft pink with a heart of pale gold. For P. suaveolens, 



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