ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 
here and there in the lighter copses and brushwood in the alpine 
elevations of the Cottians and Maritimes. 
A. perelegans is a magnificent biennial like a great wild Stock, from 
the Yellowstone Park, with stems of 2 or 3 feet, and big violet blossoms. 
A. petraea, a very rare native plant of our high mountains, is not 
worth growing except for its interest, being like a much diminished 
and not running or specially procumbent version of A. albida, never 
more than about 6 inches long or high. 
A. procurrens is a useful species in common use for cool banks ; 
it forms mats, emitting leafy runners of shining green foliage, while 
the flowers are large and white on stems of nearly a foot. (South- 
east Europe.) 
A. purpurea, from the Cyprian Olympus, is much like A. aubrie- 
tioeides, but only half the size, a neat small thing. 
A. recondita, from North America, has pretty much the look and 
habit of A. Lemmonii, but here the basal leaves are thin in texture, 
with a toothed edge. 
A. rugocarpa, a compatriot, is purple all over, flowers and leaves 
and all—the leaves being bristly and downy, and the whole growth 
not more than 2 or 4 inches high. 
A. Sturii is a prized rock-plant for sunny places, forming little 
- cushions of neat and glossy dark-green leafage, with copious heads 
of pleasant and rather large white blossoms on stems of 2 or 3 inches. 
A. sulfurea, a minute hoary grey species with oblong leaves, has 
yellow flowers, and may be seen on the high Alps of Persia (Draba 
Aucheri). 
A. verna belongs to great elevations in the mountains of Granada. 
It has rather small purple blooms, and grows to about 8 or 10 inches, 
with the green or hoary leaves almost embracing the stems. 
A. Wilezekiana, a novelty which forms thick clumps of very stiffly 
hairy rosettes. 
Aralia.—tThe only Aralia for which the rock-garden need cry is 
A. polaris from the Campbell and Auckland Islands, which has a 
horrid smell indeed, but forms splendid domed masses (some 2 to 
4 feet high) of bright-green foliage among rocks down there by the 
sea, and then proceeds to hide these balls of verdure with noble flat 
heads, a foot across, of wax-white flowers. 
Arctostaphylos.—The Bearberries form a very large family, 
especially in America, of low-growing, mat-forming or trailing bushes, 
with glossy leaves and flowers like those of a small pink Arbutus, to 
be followed by berries. None so far are of any specially valuable 
conspicuousness or beauty in the garden, though our own A. Uva-ursi, 
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