ANCHUSA. 
stems from the sprays. A. tenella is of easy culture in any congruous 
place in the garden, low and damp ; but labours under strong suspicion 
of being no better than an annual. And the remaining creepers of 
the race are unfortunately natives of Africa and South America ; but 
there ought surely to be hope of success in A. Meyeri-johannis, seeing 
that it grows by the verge of eternal snows on Kilimanjaro, from 
9000 to 13,000 feet—a most beautiful thing, quite prostrate and 
rooting all along, with little leaves so fat and crowded against each 
other on the shoots that they have to stand up in two packed rows, 
upon which, here and there, sits a single pearly cup, staring straight 
into the mists that perpetually wrap the mountain. 
Anaphalis, close relations of Antennaria, and for the same use 
and treatment in hot dry places, though taller and less ornamental 
as a rule. 
Anarrhinum bellidifolium and A. laxiflorum are close cousins 
to Antirrhinum, of which the first species belongs to the Mediterranean 
region, and the second is a glabrous plant from the high Spanish 
mountains, with rosettes of narrow, then widening leaves, and small 
white snapdragons in one-sided bunches. A speciality for rather cool 
corners of the rock-work. 
Anchonium, a small race of Crucifers from the Levant, of which 
A. Billiardieri sounds rather like the sphinx sent out by nurseries as 
Arabis Billiardiert. Much more important, however, is A. Z’ournefortit, 
sometimes found in cultivation under the name of A. helichrysifolium, 
with narrow, hoary-grey foliage, quite smooth-edged, sending up 
6-inch stems, either simple or branching, of big fragrant yellow flowers. 
From the stony alpine region of Armenian Taurus and Cappadocia, 
and excellently fitted for the sunny moraine, or poor-soiled warm 
bank. Like all Crucifers, it should multiply readily from seed. 
Anchusa, though a family of vast and Boragineous weeds, in- 
cluding some truly glorious border-plants, offers us one or two smaller 
species that might be of use in the sunny, dry places of the rock-garden, 
if we could get them. Such are A. caespitosa, from the highest 
summits of Crete, forming a dense bristly tuft, with the leaves pressed 
flat to the ground, and perhaps half a dozen fine flowers almost sitting 
upon the tuft. A. myosotidiflora, from copses of Caucasus and the 
Altai, has lately come into cultivation, and is now proclaimed by 
catalogues with their usual candid air of ecstasy. In point of fact, it is 
rather a coarse thing, with large triangular heart-shaped leaves like 
greenish flannel, on long stalks; and foot-high showers of blossoms 
which, though of a true dazzling blue, are far too small for the lush 
development of the plant. However, it may have its place in cool, 
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