ACANTHOLEIMON. 
flowers, whose enveloping cup is nerved outside with purple. (Heights 
of Lebanon, Hermon, &c.) 
A. lycopédioeides carries us far from the Levant, into the high 
mountains of Kashmir, where, at some 11,000 to 14,000 feet, it forms 
very minute tight masses like a Lycopodium, hardly an inch in height, 
of narrow tiny foliage. The scapes rise up to 2 inches or so, divide into 
two sprays, and carry large rosy flowers in a white cup. This should 
indeed be a specially lovely thing—like a thorny pink Eritrichium, 
but with larger flowers, and every promise of a temper more affable, 
and a habit more resistent. One derives yet further hope from learn- 
ing that on its own high places this beauty is common. 
A. melananthum, from the Kuh Daena range above Shiraz in Persia, 
has short broad leaves, densely overlapping, forming blue-grey 
cushions whose invitingness is lessened by their being horrid with 
short dense thorny twigs similar to its cousin A. genistoeides. The 
flowers appear almost to sit upon the tuft; they are worthy of the 
clump, pink or white, set off by a starry cup of dark purple, which 
gives tue plant its ill-fitting name— ill-fitting, seeing that here it is 
the calyx, not the flower, that is dark in colour. 
A. Perronini is a Cilician species, improving on the beauty of 
even A. Hchinus in having larger flowers, coupled with the same 
hillocky habit and glaucous-blue colouring. (Cilician Alps.) 
A. petraeum bears a promising name that always inspires the 
gardener with hope. Nor does it disgrace the epithet—a little tight 
dense grey tuffet from the rocks of Kurdistan, producing a short scape 
ending in a loose spike of soft pink blooms. 
A. Pinardi. See under A. acerosum. 
A. sahendicum, when it exchanges for our gardens the hot moun- 
tains of Sahend in Persia, will prove a twin to A. glumaceum, but is 
much more closely tufty, glabrous and grey, with rusty-coloured 
flower-spikes. : 
A, ulicinum occupies the same rocks as A. libanoticum, from 
which it differs in being dark green, and not glaucous, with shorter 
foliage and a very brief congested spike, with three, four, or five 
spicules of blossom. In fact, by its piny habit and green colouring 
it seems to earn its epithet of “ gorse-like.”’ 
A. venustum is by now a name well known to catalogues. Its 
true owner should form masses of rather loose tufts, the leaves being 
rather broad, blue-grey, scaled with lime, and the lowest on the shoot 
less prickly than the rest (though not the more, on that account, to 
be by any means recommended as bedding). The spike is loose and 
usually undivided, though sometimes branching into twin sprays ; 
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