SATUREIA. 



summer, however, and need nowhere be hoped for on the Alps west of 

 the Brenner, being entirely a species of the Eastern ranges, locally, 

 but only locally abundant, on the upmost granitic and volcanic ridges 

 from the Xoric Alps to the Southern Dolomites, and again in the 

 Carpathians. In the garden it flowers in June. 



S. x Suendermannii bears the name of the raiser who is responsible 

 for all these attractive crosses. The parents of this are 8. bellidifolia 

 and 8. caespitosa. 



S. x Wiemanniana is the only one of the group in general cultiva- 

 tion, and this usually under the name of " Weinmanniana." It gives 

 a fair notion of how little the dull- yellows of the fiavid species influence 

 the charm of the hybrids in which they have a share. For it is a 

 most neat and pretty matted tiring in growth, with decumbent stems, 

 and heads of flowers as numerous (though more freely spaced) as hi 

 S. lutea, while the other parent contributes their size and their brilliant 

 rose-colour handed down untarnished from S. caespitosa. 



8. x Willkommiana (Siindermann, 1910) is yet another hybrid, 

 making neat mats, and copiously emitting rose-red stars. 



Sarracenia. — The weird charm of the Pitcher-plants is well 

 known, and the hardy one of the largo family, 8. purpurea, so heartily 

 enjoys European conditions that alike in Switzerland and in England 

 it has quite successfully established itself in the Sphagnum-patches 

 of the wild bog, and there catches flies in its deep urn-shaped leaves 

 of marbled red and green, and hangs out its indescribable huge 

 yellowish flowers (like some of the great ivory belt-buttons of old 

 Japan) to such good effect on their 10-inch stalks that young seedlings 

 subsequently arise all over the face of the spongy tract. 



Satureia, a race of quite charming little wiry bushlings from 

 the South, like erect -growing, dainty Thymes of delicate foliage and 

 larger flower. They are all children of the sun, and enjoy light well- 

 drained soil in full warmth, where they will be happy without attention 

 from year to year, delighting the eye with their axillary clusters of 

 blossom in late summer, while all the year through, on a pinch of the 

 finger, their aromatic tiny leaves will delight the nose, and send the 

 mind on a far journey to the warmth and light and colour of the 

 Mediterranean. There are various species, all of charm, and none 

 more than 8 inches high, standing, in their family, between Thymus 

 and Micromeria (nowadays the race is even made to absorb Micro- 

 meria, q.v.). S. pygmaea is a varic ty of the more common 8. montana, 

 and is especially delightful — a very small bush of wiry straight stems, 

 set with dark sweet little leaves, and rather large crowded flowers of soft 

 violet in the upper axils of all the shoots through August and September. 



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