ANTHEMIS. 
jags, these again being slit into featherings. The stems are a foot 
high, all the upper part being bare, as usual, and the white flowers 
are particularly fine. 
A. Cupaniana is a treasure from Italy, perfectly hardy and of the 
greatest value, though not by any means small or dainty. It forms 
a vast decumbent mass often a yard or more across, and perhaps 
6 inches deep, of fat shoots embedded in masses of neat ferny foliage, 
rather plump and grey, and pleasantly aromatic. From these all the 
summer through, and far on into December if allowed, springs an un- 
ceasing profusion of large and brilliant snowy Marguerites carried well 
aloft, some 6 inches or more above the mass. This beauty seems 
indifferent to sun or shade, heavy soil or light ; it came under a sus- 
picion of tenderness, which has by now been utterly dispelled. Nor 
is A. Cupaniana anything but soundly perennial ; though, for increase 
rather than for any guarantee, it may be remembered that every 
shoot will make a goodly specimen if struck in sand. 
A. fruticulosa belongs to the lower alpine region of Caucasus. It 
makes almost a little dwarf bush, with big flowers and leaves all closely 
white-silked, cut into strips of varying length, breadth, and sharpness. 
A. graveolens is a larger version of A. anatolica, not at all silky, 
but green, odorous, and with longer rays to the flower. 
A. Grisebachit has especial charm in its fine accumulations of grey 
foliage, but should be starved in the moraine lest full soil corrupt its 
vigour and cause it to die back. 
A. iberica, from Levantine mountains, is near to A. carpatica, but 
here the leaf-slits are so short that the whole leaf looks narrow-oblong 
instead of amply egg-shaped in general outline. The stems are from 
6 to 12 inches high, and the blossoms very large and fine. And there 
is a still better variety, A. 7. minor, being a quite neat, specially dwarf 
tuffet with stems of not more than 3 or 4 inches, from the high-alpine 
stony places of Kasbek at about 8000 feet. 
A. Kotschyi, not unknown in gardens, differs from all forms of 
A. montana in having short, yellow rays to the flower. The silky 
leaves each have a little foot-stalk, and are shortly oval in outline, 
cut into a few lobes, which again are gashed into three to five short, 
blunt, and narrow strips. (Alps of Taurus.) 
A. montana, that recurrent name, has innumerable synonyms 
and varieties. It is also A. macedonica Griseb., and as such sometimes 
appears in the same list as A. montana. A typical cushion-forming, 
fine-leaved mountain Camomile, often with branching shoots and 
several daisies, it occupies rocky places all along the Northern borders 
of the Mediterranean from Spain to the Levant. Countless local 
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