ARENARIA. 
of the ordinary garden soil, rather than kept slim in the Spartan diet 
of the moraine. 
A. gracilis is in the same style of charm as A. grandiflora—a 
diffuse prostrate tuffet, but with elliptic-narrow leaves, which are 
almost finely saw-edged, and meeting each other at their bases. The 
gracious flower-stems stand erect with two handsome snowy stars. 
A. graminifolia is also Alsine Rosanii of gardens. It is not at all 
important, but for its turfy masses of grass-like foliage, shaggy with 
glandular hair, green and glossy. The dowdy blooms are of little 
attraction, carried in clusters and comparatively inconspicuous. 
A. grandiflora.—If flowers so splendid only earn the name of A. 
montana, what will one not expect from an Arenaria called Grandi- 
flora? In point of fact one only gets something like a conspicuously 
glorified A. verna. It is a pity, however, that the name should lead to 
such disappointment as to discredit its bearer, for A. grandiflora is 
really very beautiful, forming a loose and small mass of prostrate 
dense shoots, scattered about over the ground, and clothed in fine- 
pointed little narrow green leaves of the brightest and glossiest green, 
like those of a Sagina grown out of knowledge, not stiff or prickly, but 
often recurving, and with a fine faint fringe of hairs just at their base. 
From these come rather frail stems of a few inches, carrying a few 
large and handsome blossoms of purest white. A. grandiflora— 
which is also A. triflora (L.) and A. juniperifolia (Vill.) [nothing to do 
with Alsine juniperina]—dwells in high rocky places from Spain to 
Moravia, and gives the rule for all the choice alpine Arenarias of the 
garden, enjoying a sunny well-drained place in light loose soil or in 
the moraine. 
A. Huteri is much in the same style as A. Saxifraga, but distinctly 
finer, with leaves and tufts recalling those of Lychnis pyrenaica, but 
fringed with hairs. This is peculiar to the Alps of Venetia, as A. 
Saxifraga to the Maritimes and Corsica. 
A. incrassata is a very much looser, prostrate, fatter-textured A. 
grandiflora from the mountains of North-Central Spain. 
A. kashmirica resembles Alsine juniperina, but here the leaves 
are stiffer, and clothed in glandular down. 
A. Ledebouriana is a most charming tiny gem, forming clumps of 
neat rosettes, microscopic and dainty, like those of Armeria caespitosa, 
but only a quarter of the size, wholly smooth and of a blue-grey tone. 
The flowers, on delicate branching sprays, are worthy of the plant, 
though quite outclassed by those of the kindred A. acerosa. A. 
Ledebouriana is common in the Levantine Alps, and in our gardens, 
though so wee and choice, is quite satisfactory to deal with. 
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