TROLLIUS. 



the species — premising only that the one need of the whole race is deep 

 rich soil, moist and cool and adequately supplied with water. The 

 generic likeness of the race is strong, and small differences, as a rule, 

 separate many of the species, hi the course of the race's extension from 

 the mountain -woods of Europe, across the stretches of Asia to America. 



T. europaeus shall be the type for comparison, as being our own and 

 the best known — a plant of the alpine meadows all the ranges over, 

 often occurring in such abundance in damp places that you may see 

 whole acres shining with the bland and moony citron of its unbroken 

 mass of bloom, with the hot gold of Caltha flaring in a mass no less 

 unbroken below, so that the marsh is a dazzling tumble of shot shades 

 in lemon and orange. It is little less common, though not hi masses so 

 dense, in the Alps of Craven and Teesdale, where its orbed moons of 

 pale yellow float like globes of ghostly light across the riotous carpets of 

 the pastures hi June, thick with Geranium sylvaticum and waving 

 Forget-me-not and Potentilla and Mountain Pansy. Such associa- 

 tions, then, are what would best suit its unearthly luminosity in the 

 garden — to be planted in drifts, and wild stretches, with Paradisea and 

 Campanula rhomboidalis, and Thalictrum aquilegifolium and Gentiana 

 asclepiadea, and many another well-beloved glory of the mountam- 

 meadows, such as even Lilium Martagon and Aquilegia alpina. 



T. acaulis is a tiny treasure from the high Himalaya, with widely 

 open buttercup -flowers of gold, rather than globes (after the fashion of 

 T. laxus and T. patulus), standing lone and erect on unbranched stems 

 of some 5 or 6 inches or less. It should have choice treatment in the 

 gritty and underground-watered moraine -bed. 



T. altaicus again has the yellow blossoms gaping open instead of 

 globular as in the Globe-flowers. Note that it has the Globe-flower's 

 height of some 12 or 15 inches, and much the same foliage. But the 

 styles at the flower's heart are dark purple ; the outstanding sepals, 

 of brilliant yellow, are some five to fifteen in number, and the mean, 

 tiny, barely visible petals inside are more or less shorter than the 

 central fluff of stamens, which accordingly quite obliterates their 

 inconspicuousness. 



T. americanus is often advertised as T. laxus, and has a pale 

 variety sent out as T. laxus albiflorus. This is a weaklier Globe-flower 

 of the typical form, rather frail in growth, about 2 feet high, and with 

 balls of pale-yellow blossom that often verge through diluted shades 

 of lemon-water-ice towards a tone that only the grossest flattery could 

 call white. 



T. asiaticus is like a slightly taller T. europaeus, but the leaves are 

 more finely gashed, and of a deeper bronze-green tone, while the 



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