ALSINE. 
pinifolia, but taller, making tight dark cushion-masses, from which 
rise 6-inch stems of white blossom. The leaves are longer and stiffer 
than the closer fur of Pinifolia. 
A. groenlandica makes a minute green scab of moss, bestarred 
with white flowers, the petals being twice the length of the sepals. 
A. imbricata (Caucasus) has much the same habit, but the stems 
lie about and attain to 2 or 3 inches, with white flowers of fine size, 
more than twice as large as in A. macrocarpa. 
A. juniperina belongs to A. Villarsit, ¢.v. 
A. laricifolia is the granitic twin to A. Bauhinorum, and a plant of 
no less beauty and identical habit. The two types are clearly close 
together, and possibly are merely different soil-developments of one 
original. But in A. laricifolia, among other points, the seed-capsule 
should equal the calyx, instead of surpassing it as in Bauhinorum. 
A. laricifolia is common all over the granitic Alps in stony sunny 
places, from the far Western ranges away into the Carpathians ; neither 
this species nor thé equally lovely Bauhinorum has ever quite come 
to its own in the garden, although so choice, easy, and vigorous. 
Carpets of either species would make, before they themselves are 
glorious in bloom, the most perfect cover for choice Crocus in spring 
or autumn, and for the tinier Narcissi. 
A. leucocephala raakes neat little tidy cushions of grey velvet in the 
high-alpine fields of Caria and Pisidia. The flowers are small, carried 
in a little head on stems of 2 or 3 inches. 
A. macrocarpa forms a dense or flopping tuft along the ground. 
The closely clustered blunt leaves, very narrow, are edged with teeth, 
and eyelashed with minute bristles, though the surface of the leaf 
itself is smooth. The blossoms are large and handsome. (Arctic 
Siberia.) 
A. montana must here be mentioned as a dreadful warning. For 
Arenaria montana, with which the name is sometimes confused, is 
one of the rock-garden’s greatest and most universal prides, whereas 
the true Alsine montana is a worthless annual weed. 
A. parnassica is a rare species, with quite short leaves overlapping 
on the stems, and the old ones remaining. It forms into specially 
wide dwarf mats like a stunted form of Arenaria graminifolia, but 
that the leaves are shorter, and the grass of the turf accordingly 
finer. 
A. pinifolia, another dense tuffet, with close rosettes of narrow 
foliage on the barren shoots, and loose stems of 5 inches or more, with 
white flowers. 
A. procumbens is a curious small species from the sea-sands of 
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