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to th< It has a numbei oi varieties, however, of which two 



are P. h. sparsipil sum and P. h. pit mil in a — this last being a dwarf 

 alpine form from Anemas in Lycaonia, which might have special 

 charm. Both P. pilosum and P. Hddreichii complicate mailers still 

 further by the way they hybridise, alike in nature and in the garden. 

 P. x Cayeuxii is a fine-flowered child of P. pilosum and P. braeteatum ; 

 P.xPichleri of P. pilosum and P. Hddreichii ; P . x pinardianum and 

 P.xBourgeauanum of P. striatum and P. pilosum ; P.xsieheanum of 

 P. strictum and another form of P. pilosum. But few of these are 

 likely to attain eminence in the garden. 



P. strictum differs from all the last in having less ample leaves that 

 make no effort to embrace the stem ; its inflorescence aims at copying 

 P. spicatum, but carries the flowers on evident foot -stalks, so that the 

 effect is of a much looser and more graceful spire, which is almost 

 wholly smooth, though the rest of the growth is invested in the usual 

 hairiness, clothing its stiffly upstanding stems of some 2 feet and more. 

 P. pseudostrictum differs from this chiefly in the broader and more 

 pointed leaves, and their rougher and more irregular scalloping. 

 P. lateritium may be known by very long and narrow leaves, deeply 

 lobed all along into irregular pointed featherings ; the crown sends up 

 many stems of 2 feet or so, scantily branching about the middle, and 

 carrying one or two brick-red flowers, each on a long stalk of its own. 

 This habit of wearing its flowers singly (instead of forming a long 

 raceme of them more or less close) distinguishes it from all the fore- 

 going, no less than does the much narrower foliage ; but its three suc- 

 cessors come very close under its shadow, and may be mere local 

 developments. P. ramosissimum is merely of specially branching 

 habit, much more diffuse, and with much shorter flower-stems ; P. 

 oreophilum is smaller than P. lateritium, and forms dense perennial 

 mats at the base of the stems ; P. monanthum has the distinction of 

 not making a proper stem at all, but of sending up its large flowers 

 each lonely on a naked stalk of a foot or 18 inches ; these are followed 

 by capsules much rounder than in the rest (that have them of a squeezed 

 and narrow outline). P. rupifragum also has the drawn-out narrow- 

 ness of leaf, but here the feathered lobes are deeper and more ample 

 than in the last, with more of a space between them, and set with rare 

 hairs. The stems are 18 inches high, with a few leaves near the base, but 

 bare all the way up, and but seldom breaking into two equal branches, 

 one solitary brick-pale flower being the more usual rule. This has 

 yielded a useful sterile garden hybrid with P. orientale in P.xBupo- 

 rient, with profusion of handsome graceful scarlet blossoms through 

 late summer. P. allanticum is the last of this tangled group, and may 



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