ANTHERICUM. 
developments, varieties, or kindred species (some with no rays to the 
flowers) have been differentiated ; among these are A. Linnaeana, 
cronia (dwarf), tenuiloba, pentelica (sometimes rayless), incana and 
anatolica (not to be confused with A. anatolica the species). Blancheana 
is a sub-species from Lebanon, but the jags of the leaves are here 
shorter, and start away from each other. More important than these, 
and often offered as species, are: Anthemis montana var. aetnensis, a 
beautiful closer tuffet, with Marguerites that break the family tradition 
by diverging from white to pink ; A. m. Columnae, all silvery-silky ; A. 
m. petraea, quite smooth and green and silkless, but sweetly scented ; 
and A. m. saxatilis, all white with silky wool. A very kindred thing 
is A. leucanthemifolia, from hills above Smyrna, differing in its long, 
fine sharply-pointed segments and strips to its leaves; not very dis- 
tinct, again, are A. sterilis and A. candicans. 
A. ptarmicaefolia, from the mountains of the Levant, is a quite 
different species, forming minute running carpets, rooting as they go. 
The little leaves are more or less slit on either side into a few huddled 
blunt jags, and the rays of the flower are unfortunately not usually 
as long as the disk—though in this there is variation. 
A. rigescens is like a pale smooth version of the common Camomile. 
A. tricolor, though really beautiful, offers scant hope of being hardy, 
but is well worth the trial—a silky flopping plant, of no more than some 
3 to 5 inches, from the sea-rocks of Cyprus ; the small leaves are oblong, 
feathered into lobes which are again feathered into a few short oblong 
narrow little jags ; and the flowers are larger than those of A. montana, 
white, but going rose-red at the base. 
Anthericum is a family of delicate alpine Asphodels with fine 
loose sprays of lovely white stars. Unfortunately the best of the species 
has now been banished into a race to itself, and Anthericum Liliastrum 
is Anthericum no longer, while A. baeticum, from the damp alpine 
fields of Spain (with quite dwarf forms, one- or two-flowered, from still 
higher up), is so far unknown in our gardens. There yet remain, 
however, A. Inliago and A. ramosum (sometimes A. graminifolium). 
This last is very familiar and grateful in the garden—a haunter of sub- 
alpine rocks, forming an ever-widening tuft of long and frail grassy 
leaves, from which in later summer spring increasing multitudes of 
light graceful stems, gracefully branching, and set with small white 
stars. Any reasonable conditions of cool soil suit A. ramosum perfectly, 
and it may be fancied that its one objection would be to being parched 
and grilled. Much more uncommon in cultivation is A. Liliago, 
because it holds the middle position between the fine starriness of 
A. ramosum and the sumptuous ecclesiastical splendour of what is 
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