ANTHYLLIS. 
now Anthericum Liliastrum no longer. A. Inliago has shorter stems 
than A. ramosum, and flowers much larger and longer, though barely 
half the size of Liliastrum’s. It does not form into a wide mass, 
but keeps a single crown, like Liliastrum (of which, indeed, it is 
a precise miniature), from which rise dainty foot-high stems, laxly 
set with very shallow wide, six-rayed trumpets. It is quite easy of 
culture, and especially abundant at low elevations in the Southern 
Alps. In cleared open grassy slopes among the chestnut-groves 
above Bobbio, its airy spires rise pure and brilliant against the 
bright green background of the lawn; while on hotter sunnier banks 
it stands profuse in the rough sparse flowering grasses among the 
waving pinks of Dianthus inodorus, the gold-and-violet of Aster 
alpinus, and the stocky ruby-red catherine-wheels of Sempervivum 
arachnoideum. Here, indeed, is a hint for the gardener who has hot 
banks to plant in poorish soil. As for A. yedoense, this is surely 
Allectorurus yedoensis. 
Anthyllis is a family of Southerly and tropical Pea-flowers, all 
essentially rock-plants, one of them being locally abundant on the 
limestones and serpentine rocks of England. Many of the species are 
woolly-haired, and all of them require, or prefer, a hot dry and well- 
drained corner in sunny rocks. (Seed.) 
A. alpestris is a variety, rather finer, of our own A. Vulneraria. 
A. aurea is a lovely thing—a tiny bushling from the mountain- 
tops above Ragusa, with feathered foliage, perfectly smooth but bright 
silver with close-pressed hairs, most beautiful to see. On this mass 
appear the flowers, bright golden yellow, in dense fat heads. 
A. Barba-Jovis comes from the Mediterranean region—a handsome 
woolly shrub of much larger habit, with yellow blossoms. It could not 
be called really trustworthy in England, any more than A. sericea, 
A. rupesiris, or any others of the sun-craving sea-level section. 
A. illyrica should be a beautiful violet Anthyllis akin to Vulneraria, 
and indeed accepted as a mere variety. 
A. montana is not uncommon in gardens, nor in hot rocky places 
in the Southern Alps—as, for instance, on the sunny limestones op- 
posite Saint Martin Vésubie. It makes a prostrate mat of densely 
woolly feathered leaves, ashy-grey in effect, on which lie largish heads 
of flowers, pink indeed, but like so many Pea-flowers—a race most 
strong in yellows, but rather weak in good pinks (with all due reserves 
for Lathyrus odoratus)—lacking just that final touch required to give 
clearness and brilliance: in short, a very useful pretty little cushion 
for sunny dry corners, with flowers of a rather sullen shade of sunlit 
claret in high summer. 
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