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most melting China-blue, suggesting a discarnate Anemone blanda. The 

 seed sent out under this number was collected from a plant of precisely similar 

 habit, abounding in the earthier parts of the big limestone screes on Thunder- 

 crown ; I have none but a philosophic doubt that they should prove identical. 

 Seed is very hard to get ; the carpels fall while yet green, and you have to 

 quest around each clump to detect the green nutlings lurking here and there 

 in the chinks of the shingle ; and then the catching them becomes an agitating 

 business, for if not caught at the first pounce, they dive deeper and deeper 

 among the pebbles every moment, and are soon completely buried from view. 

 So hard are these wee nuts, and so evident their purpose in dropping prema- 

 turely, in order that the husk may wilt and rot below ground, and give the 

 nucleus full time to sprout, that in the artificial conditions of the garden it 

 would be well, I think, cautiously to split open the nut, and extract the kernel 

 to be sown. (C. Faneri, Sp. nova.) 



Cimicifuga Sp. (F 445).— This very superb thing lives luxuriant in the alp- 

 meadows about J6-ni, and far up into the Tibetan highlands, extending south- 

 east to the Thundercrown gorges, where it is rare and poorer in the drier cir- 

 cumstances. The basal volume of foliage is ample, sumptuous, glossv, and 

 splendid ; from this arise in August the stately stems of 6 to 7 feet, deploy- 

 ing a great foaming spout of cream-white blossom in a broken panicle, su^estino 1 

 Spiraea Aruncus on a quadrupled scale of glory. This will clearly repay the 

 very richest conditions of culture, in a moist but sunny spot. (Can it be C. 

 racemosa ?) 



Convolvulus Sp. (F 99). — Such a very lovely little mound of silv§r-grey 

 thorns this is, starred in June with inset blossoms of the softest hot, clear pink, 

 perfectly clean and pure. It is a dense hedgehog, usually of about 4 inches 

 high and 8 to 10 inches across ; but, where safe from goats, occasionally 

 doubling its dimensions, and developing quite a woody trunk. No Levantine 

 could be lovelier ; it lives on the hottest, driest slopes of the hot, dry loess 

 hills about the Black Water, and is not hardy. (C. tragacanthoeides.) 



Corydalis Sp. (F 113). — This is one of the much-boomed Chinese Cory- 

 dalids of late years — a lush rank mass of blue adiantoid foliage, with tall spikes 

 of pallid yellow flowers and a noxious stink. I cannot admire it ; it especially 

 affects the slag-dump-like avalanches of filth that here and there descend in 

 cataracts of unpleasant, slimy chaos ftom the hills about Siku. 



Corydalis Sp. (F 37) is general all up the Border, in beck-shingles and 

 alpine turf and scrub-edges. It is a weakly, gracious thing of annual look, 

 about 6 inches high, with scant fine leafage, and flower-spires of the most 

 dazzling pure azure, occasionally varying to straw-colour. Unfortunately, seed 

 of Corydalis is often hard to catch on the hop, and I have not yet succeeded 

 in getting any of this beauty. (C. curvi flora.) 



Corydalis Sp. (F 254) lives only in the topmost screes of the great moun- 

 tains, huddling close with fat and lovely leafage of glaucous-blue, emerging 

 from which unfold large heads of very large flowers of pure white, but lipped 

 and helmed with sky-blue, and with a black eye. It smells most deliciously, 

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