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of 8. marginata. Ii mafe id rather tumbled wide tuftets and 



'if much broader, looser, longer, bluer leaves, not spiked, and 

 with four nr fi\ I lime-pits; a 8. marginata) along 



their edge. The stems ai .carrying 



mp of fine white blooms with oval-petals smooth 

 andnotchless at their edge. It is qi grow, but 



a liking for i; hat it 



!i underbid d until ing Look. 1 also bl 



that, what with rains and sluj he snowy displays rarely 



a chance of doing the cushion 

 8. brachypoda Bhotan and Kumaon, 



making \, overlapping little needle- 



narrow lea ulcus at the edge, but usually smooth ; 



the e .,- seming to ellow 



stars ovi r the brilliantly i ing tufts. 



8. brevifolia, a form of *S r . aeizoon, q.v. 

 8. bronchialis adequately replaces 8. aspera in Nbrthei 

 America. The habit and the culture are the same, but the foliage is of 

 much darker green, making a sombre carpet ; American botanists 

 now patriotically try to divide off their own national form from the 

 Yellow Peril over in Asia by saying that this always has Lanceolate 

 sepals and orange frecklings; while their own true-born American 

 plant is to be called 8. cognata, i v.ij sepals and the petals 



freckled with purple as befits an imperial republic, instead of with 

 the beggarly orange of the A ver. the type in all 



countries varies as widely as do saints and republics too, and alpine 

 forms may be segregated, as 8. bryoeides from the European 8. aspera. 

 In particular tin re is one, often q1 oul afl 8. 8t Ueriana (Merck.) and 

 sometimes as 8. cuspidata. This stands to 8. bronchi* bly as 



does 8. bryoeides to 8. aspera, being neater, tighter, dwarfer, dea 

 shorter in the stem and larger in the single bloom. Ii value 



in the garden, however, lies in the fact that it bronzes to a rich metallic 

 tone in autumn, and keeps its new splendour undiminished through 

 the winter. 



8. Brunoniana belongs also to the Trachyphyllum group, and grows 

 readily in any open and not too torrid place of sandy peat, but should 



ample space to itself, for it forms remarkable spiny roe 

 of pale-green Leaves, long and stiff and narrow and pointed, with 

 I up their edges and a longer I their tip ; and these 



row oui fine thread-like pink runners this way and 

 ii inches Long and more, arching gracefully in their search for a com- 

 fortable jped on which to develop the bud that lurks by a leaf- 



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