SEMPER VIVUM. 



most specially woolly development from the Eastern ranges is called 

 S. Pilosella ; and yet another, from the Southern granites, has flowers 

 of particularly flaming red thai have earned it the name of 8. san- 

 ■ um. The species too has hybridised all over the mountains, 

 and all the following crosses must bo understood as having something 

 of bright colour, white webbing and neat-massed small habit, derived 

 from 8. arachnoideum — S. Pomellii, see above ; 8. piliferum (montanum 

 X arachnoideum), S.xThomayeri (S. hirtumxS. arachnoideum), S.x 

 laiUareticum (S. rupestrexS. arachnoideum), 8 '. x Morellianum (S. cal- 

 ''// nmxS. arachnoid* u/m — inheriting a double allowance of beauty) ; 

 8. Heerianwn, 8. rubettum (8. BoutignyanumxS. arachnoideum — the 

 same cross) ; S. roseum (8. arachnoideum X 8. Wulfeni) ; 8. xFontanae, 

 see above. (8. pseudo-arachnoideum is a kindred development of the 



li! Alps.) 



8. Doettianum stands so close to 8. arachnoideum as sometimes to 

 have been held a mere variety. Its differences, however, are for the 

 worse, the flowers being of a duller pink, the rosettes looser, and more 

 splayed out, and distinctly less cobwebbed — in fact with only quite a 

 few threads from tip to tip, and a small beard on the point of each 

 leaf. (Tyrol.) 



S. oligotrichum, Baker, is another species in the same group. 



Group V. ChrysantJia. — Flowers yellow or yellowish. 



8. Wulfeni. — Very handsome large sea-green rosettes, very heavily 

 fringed at the edge, but otherwise wholly smooth — not unlike those of 

 the Houseleek, except in the peculiarities of colour, &c. The stout 

 stem of 10 inches unfolds a glandular-stemmed sprayed head of large 

 pale-yellow purple-eyed flowers liko whirling angry Sea-anemones. 

 This species is scattered about in tho high turf of the granitic Alps, 

 often forming wide masses. There is a sad-flowered hybrid between 

 this and 8. montanum, called 8. X Widderi ; and another version of 

 the same unpromising cross is 8. xHuteri. 



S. Gaudini has specially handsome rather largo rosettes of narrow 

 leaves, handsomely incurved at first, and then opening wide, but not 

 violently pointed, all fluffy with glandular hairs and of brilliant green 

 sometimes reddened at tho tips ; the stout stems are 10 inches high, 

 unfurling great steady stars of clear pale-yellow. It is a remarkably 

 defl of th ■ [taliart Alps in the high slopes, and demands 

 op n-ground I n a1 menl with us in h< 



S. Brauni from this last in being much smaller, with the 



pointed-leaved, littler rosettes always kept open, quite noat and well- 



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