AMPHICOME. 
Karawanken, that gaunt peak looking out over Klagenfurt and its 
lake ; for there in the topmost screes and silt-pans of the summit- 
ridge may A. Wulfenianum be found gleaming pale through the mists 
that wrap the mountain, their lemony gleam well served by the silvery 
foliage on which they lie. (In the garden it turns greener.) 
Most of the remaining members of this family, as often reckoned, 
will be found restored to their convenient places, under the names 
Koeniga, Schivereckia, Ptilotrichum, Berteroa, and Vesicaria. 
Amphic6émé is a small Indian race, nearly allied to Incarvillea. 
A. arguta forms a very little bush, throwing up branching stems of a 
foot or two from a creeping root-stock. The fine ferny leaves, quite 
smooth, make an attractive feathery mass, and at the end of the sprays 
hang dainty rosy trumpets. In the same range is A. Hmodi, but with 
hairy foliage and flowers rather larger, about 2 inchesinlength. Both 
these plants ought to be trustworthy, for the first is found at 7000 
feet in Kumaon, and the second has a range between 2000 to 9000 feet 
in the mountains of India to Afghanistan. None the less they are 
far too rarely seen in gardens, a sufficient symptom that they require 
a warm and sheltered position in good light soil, with protection against 
excessive damp in winter. See Appendix for a problem. 
Amphoricarpus Neumeyeri, which sometimes appears in cata- 
logues, is a Dalmatian Composite of some attraction, like a dwarf 
6-inch Centaurea, forming a tuit of lanceolate-leaved rosettes, with 
flowers of a purplish red. It thrives in any sunny place in poor soil 
on the rock-work, perhaps among grasses, but has no special charm. 
Amsonia is a race of North-American plants, tall and leafy, with 
blue flowers, allied to Vincetoxicum. They are, however, coarse and 
rank, most fitted for wild places, open and dampish, in the wood 
garden. A. salicifolia sometimes flaunts in catalogues. 
Anacyclus, a race of Composites, most closely allied to Pyre- 
thrum, often confused with it and often merged into it. There are 
several species in cultivation, but none of value; but see Pyrethrum 
and Leucocyclus, as all genuine species of Anacyclus are worthless 
annuals. 
Anagallis.— Besides many splendid annuals of upright or flopping 
habit, such as A. linifolia (A. grandiflora), this genus might offer the rock- 
and bog-garden several delightful trailing treasures, of which not one 
could be more precious than our own native A. tenella, from heaths and 
marshes all over England, covering the earth with its freely-rooting flat 
branches, set with roundish pairs of shining leaves as in some of the New 
Zealand Epilobiums, and powdered over, all the summer through, with 
countless little wide cups of a delicate pale pink, rising on delicate fine 
