.-AXIFRAGA. 



terrible little annual, impossible to collect or keep. In the damp 

 silty grottoes under the Daphne's cliff on the Cima Tombea this 



to that district) may ... making 



masses so filmy and evanescent that you expect them to be blown 

 away on a breath like the yellow-starred films of cobweb that they 

 It is as frail in root and stem a. then 



is into a lax flopping jungle of weak fine bra. with 



broadly oval and minute toothed leaves as flimsy and frail as lovers' 

 vows ; and the whole mass is interwoven with a long soft twining fluff 



he frosted and dew-dropped iridescence 

 of a dream. The little s re and there on fine 



stems at the ends of the branches, and are of a pale diaphanous yellow 

 iii keeping with the ghostly unreality of the whole apparition. In 

 cultivation it should have damp sand and mud in shade, among 

 stones ; and n< water should ev to fall upei 



plant itself. 



is a typical and attractive Kabschia from the 



• here it lives in the 

 limestone rock- and lower-alp It makes 



mats of ehara iddled and hard little gi 



all the narrow \. tending to stand erect. The 



stems are dense with glands, i rely 2 i . high, carrying tl 



or four bright-; each on a foot-stalk , and each 



emerging from a baggy and densely glandular calyx. The central 

 flower does its work first, while the seconds. _ little on 



that effect is loose 

 and widely branched. Finally. S. a rtain 



strawberry mark, for the gola A at 



the i '•■•■low each notch the end of each petal-vein cai 



led. There 

 difficult makes a tighter tuft. - with 



flowers of a darkei But the form called 



belongs in r . In nature it f 



the d aid lower rocks with 8. media, and from this 



association, accord:: sprung a vast and by now urn. 



sarily coi number of them bearing quite 



lotto- pur- 

 purea, Lap.. IT " 



if wi men seeming to use the name as a sort of 



.. to Bell-) 

 ■ence of . intermediate 



calyces, and the { h stems, stem- 



