POTENTTLLA. 



However, it is justified of its opinion, and suits especially well with 

 the moraine, stiffly weeping in a dome, and looking like some ancient 

 pride of Japan some 8 or 10 inches high at the most, and never seeming 

 to grow any more. 



P. frigida is minute and valueless and yellow ; and universal in the 

 high Alps. 



P. fruticosa may be seen in rich glory filling the sandy banks of 

 Tees with deep boskets and coppices of its neat shrubs, bespattered 

 all the summer through with royal golden flowers. Plants of this are 

 best bought and put in their places and there left alone to grow into 

 masses 3 or 4 feet high and as much across, glittering with stars of 

 gold, and now and then cut back into shape in whiter should the bush 

 grow bare and leggy with age. P. fruticosa is the type of a very large 

 number of similar beautiful bushes, and has itself an enormous range 

 over Europe, Asia, and America, while of late days many fresh de- 

 velopments in the way of it have come to us out of the mountains 

 of Central China. Such are P. Veitchii, which seems a small and low- 

 growing neat bush of straight branches, with profusion of large lovely 

 white blossoms and silvered foliage ; silvered, too, and white in the 

 blossom, but erect in its growth is P. Vilmoriniana; and there are white- 

 starred forms officially allowed to P. fruticosa itself, as well as a thing 

 called P. floribunda, which is much the same, but more procumbent 

 in habit, with special abundance of rather paler yellow flowers. And 

 every season, without doubt, will now bring us more names and more, 

 out of prize-packets from China. Every form hi the group is of the 

 easiest culture in any good open loam. And see Appendix. 



P. fulgens is a high Indian alpine, tall in the stem and lush in the 

 leaf, with blossoms of golden yellow. 



P. gelida stands near P. alpestris, and can only be separated by 

 minute differences from P. grandiflora, but that its stems aro shorter 

 and slenderer, carrying a loose shower of large bright-golden flowers 

 from a central tuft of rather long-stalked basal leaves, trefoiled and 

 hairyish and soft and green, with the lobes deeply and coarsely toothed. 

 It is almost universal across the Northern hemisphere. 



P. geoeides has the basal leaves, which are softly sticky-hairy, made 

 up of some four to eight pairs of leaflets, in the way of P. anserina ; the 

 stems are hardly longer than they, about 6 inches in length, and the 

 blossoms are yellow with persisting petals in erect, branching, forking 

 sprays. 



P. geranioeides from the East is very small and early and yellow. 



P. glandulosa from the Mediterranean region is very large and 

 lush and yellow. 



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