ACANTHOLEIMON. 
known—has quite acclimatised itself in all our gardens, though its 
native places are the torrid cliffs and slopes of Ararat, and thence 
away into Russian Armenia. 
A. Haussknechiit. See under A. armenum. 
A. Hohenackeri.—This species has also been wronged by inclusion 
under the last. In point of fact, it is a much denser and more tufted, 
smaller plant, with thick overlapping, two-branched spikes that hardly 
rise more than 2 or 3 inches from the tuft, with about an inch of 
blossom. The leaves, too, are glaucous-blue, and stamped with lime- 
pits or even scales. The leaves are short, spiny, keeled so as to be 
triangular in section, and pointed like little awls ; and the trunks are 
clothed densely in the recurving relics of their dead. (Kastern 
Caucasus, &c.) 
A. Karelinit, from the salt plains of South Russia, is a looser thing 
altogether, forming lax, almost shrubby masses of limy, blue-grey 
foliage, which in spring is fat and fleshy, but develops into thorniness 
with the summer as a young life grows spiky with experience. The 
blossom-shower, about 4 inches long, is scattered and delicate. 
A. Kotschyi is a quite blue dense tuft, with little unbranching 
spikes very short indeed, erect, with bracts and flowers closely over- 
lapping. The blossoms are pink and few; the leaves extremely 
short and unusually broad. The whole aspect of the mass suggests 
the charm of Sazifraga diapensioeides ; its native hills are those of 
the Cilician Taurus, and that notable mountain of Berytagh. 
A. latifolium, from Kurdistan, forms a tight blue tuffet of spines, 
from which rise arching graceful spikes of 8 or 10 inches, above the 
3-inch cushion, and shower forth a fine display of handsome rosy 
stars. 
A. laxiflorum forms a 3-inch mass almost like a small shrub, with 
not so many leaves as usual to the rosette, and those fat and frail. 
This species dwells in river-shingles, and the erect 6-inch spike is 
furnished with poor little pallid flowers. 
A. lepturoeides is a very fine species with which our acquaintance 
is but recent. Its habit is rather large-rosetted, the short boughs 
being densely set with recurved dead leaves. The living ones are 
glaucous-blue, pitted with lime and perfectly smooth. The spike of 
whitish blossoms is quite lax, either single, or dividing into two equal 
branches, with many minor branchlings of blossom. 
A. libanéticum makes a little mound of more or less glaucous 
leaves, the boughs being clothed with dead ones. The flower-scape is 
also adorned with leaves, but fewer and shorter, the spike itself being 
single and undivided, with from four to seven spicules of large white 
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