SENECIO. 



be both rich and cool, yet light and perfectly ay ell-drained and deep. 

 , ou red but most variable species of the higher Alps, 

 of which the most often cultivated form is a rather lush and spreading 

 plant, with oval green leaves rather soft and hairy in texture, and 

 abundant larg>. i no better a yellow than the clear gold of 



Arnica. This form I have never Been on the Alps, where its habit 

 is usually to make a clump of two or three crowns at the most — 

 more refined and much less leafy in appearance. However, in the high 

 granites of the Maritimes it tends this way, alike in greenness of looser 

 leaf and yellowness of blossom ; on the Mont Cenis the flower is still 

 golden and great, but the leafage is perceptibly harder, more fleshy 

 and leathery, and of a greyer waxy green, leading on to the Oberland 

 form, which is the finest of all, and truly well-bred, with a single crown 

 (two or three at the most), of ribbed and cobwebbed stiff stems, carry - 



vo or three very large flowers of a very rich deep orange, above 

 a tuft of long-staiked basal leaves, white beneath and of hard leathern 

 -:ency, in a beautiful tempered tone of dark iron-grey with a hint 

 of fleshy gloss. In all forms it is eas}- to grow in any light soil and 

 any open place, and is the best of the larger alpine Groundsels (together 

 with its kindred 8. Gerardi. 8. Lagascanus, 8. renifolius, S. persieus, 

 and splendid leathern -rosetted glossy S. eriopus). S. campestris, 

 S. o.. 8. sjxithulaefolius are not plants of any 



ing worth or beauty, although this last, and S. campestris, of 



which it is a variety, have at least the romantic interest of straying 



onto Micklefell, where may be seen the basal tufts of entire woolly 



ms of a foot or more, carrying heads of large 



clear-yellow flowers, broad in the ray. And in the same style is 



'cmtiacus [Cineraria), with the same entire leaves, greyish or grass- 

 . but heads of brilliant orange blossom (as has also, in the same 



Of the more alpine Senecios oi Cinerarias a marked group is formed 



bite-leaved species that belong typically to the hot South, 



ve developed the snowiness that is so fine and clear in 



8. Candidas and in 8 ■ ommonly in use once as a bedding 



plant on account of its white** Senecios of this group all have 



the lobed and feathered or fern-like foliage of grey or white ; they all 



require dryness and lightness of soil and perfect drainage, and all 



n get (the}' answer to the call of the moraine) ; and 



are all comparatively insignificant in the flower, though their 



hoary and often aromatic foliage is quite enough to secure them 



admittance. S. leueophyUus, from non-calcareous rocks of the Spanish 



white leaves of rounded oval outline, beautifully frilled into 



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