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shape effect. From each of th< a springs an invar tally 



glandular redd- - carrying Loose and one- 



- of line-stemmed flowers of pure milk-white, usually ample in 

 the star, and always lovely in their ^how. This beautiful thing is 

 entirely confined to the calcareous districts of the Roja valley, and 

 eastward of the Col de Tenda into the limestones of the Ligurian 



nines, having almost its last station, like so many less happy 

 mortals, high up on the Port-Fino summit. It varies extravagantly ; 

 when it seeks the sh a affected by 8. lantoscana it approaches 



more and more closely to the Lantoscana-form itself, growing larger 

 and laser, alike in leaf and rosette, and of a more ochreous green, 

 instead of the powdered pale-blue and silver-white of its cushions 

 where they are tight* . The typical shade- or gully-form 



may be seen on the limestone cliffs overhead as you drive up the bed 

 of the Roja to San Dalmazzo ; and the more normal sun-cornpr 

 type on the drier rocky slopes of the Rio Secoo behind Briga. In the 

 Val <: gain., it takes the yet minuter shape which is sent out 



oly as 8. cock, minor, a perfectly fair, proper, and prevalent name, 



but also of late years as 8. Prdbynii, a name nearly as unjustifiable 



as the alternative one of S. " valdensis," under which it is so universal 



in gardens as to make the genuin 8. almost unknown. 



'. Dbynn-name is the more provoking in its mere irrelevance ; 



iny tight masses of the plant do bear a definite resemblance to 



the tiny tight masses of 8. t, and, when the latter grows drawn 



router, the two are not i any parable at a glance, until it is 



realised the leaves of 8. cochlears in all its forms arc flat on the upper 



surface, no mutter Low much their tips be swollen, nor how condensed 



they be ; while in this form they tend., as usual., to stand distinct, despite 



their diminished outward curve, instead of lying pressed down tight in 



the hard impenetrable domes of 8. valdensis thai give your hand the 



bag some waited r ptilian hump, instead of the hundred 



little resilient points that you feel on laying it over a mass of S. 



cochlearis minor. Further differences will be noted under 8. add- 



With regard to other forms, the rocks of Briga and San Dalmazzo may 



yield opportunities for more names ; the species is always graceful in 



stem ; and always pure and beautiful in flower, but there are ampler 



forms as well as starrier. That called S. c. major is the larger-leaved, 



resetted plant developed in the gorge of Saorgio, 



and . significant that just ae 8. B i develops into special 



amplitude in i 9 ithern valleys, with forms thence emerging of 



added bean y, so does 8. cochlearis also, in the same conditions, 



majority, and emit a superior form, at present distinguished only with 



