ARMERIA. 
rounded-ovate. It forms a neat tuft, but produces no very startling 
effect. 
A. tetrasticha has the same curious leaf-arrangement—a dwarf 
prostrate mat of weak shoots about 2 or 3 inches long, from the Alps 
of Persia, sending up its flowers on little erect delicate stems. The 
whole plant is smooth and glaucous blue-grey. 
A. tmolea.—A dwarf cushion, with the one-to-three-flowered sprays 
hardly rising above it, the shoots being packed with stiff minute leaves, 
ovate-oblong. (This species also includes A. Kotschyana.) (Anatolian 
Alps, &c.) 
A. valentina makes almost a small dense bush, sub-shrubby, of 
stiff foliage rather sharp, from which emerge the flowers, on long 
foot-stalks, either lonely or in sprays. (Limestone crags of Valentia..) 
Arisaema, a race of picturesque Aroids from Japan and North 
America, best fitted for moist deep soil by the bog-garden, where their 
large handsome foliage waves impressively, and among them are seen 
the dingy great Arum-flowers, often hooded over and ending in a long 
rat-tail wisp. Among the best are A. triphyllum, A. ringens, A. 
amurense, and A. japonicum. 
Arisarum offers yet more Aroids, of which A. ewropaeum is the 
universal little dark-striped Arum of the South, while A. proboscideum 
may often be seen running in and out of walls on the Ligurian Riviera— 
a thing of most eccentric charm, forming in the garden masses of small 
arrow-shaped leaves, very green and dark and lucent, among which 
you will see the wild brown tails and hind-quarters of many mice 
disappearing and diving in June. But these mice are the tips of the 
flowers—sombre wee Arums with the tip of the hood prolonged into 
that agitated tail, quite unlike the more ordinary flower of A. euro- 
paeum. Not only is A. proboscideum of the easiest culture in the 
garden, forming neat thick tufts, but, in defiance of its Ligurian 
memories, it even revels in the deep and soaking bog no less. 
Armeria.—The Thrifts are a confusing family of the seashores 
in Southern Europe, some of them abounding in England. Not only, 
however, do they abound on the seashore, but those same species, 
besides others, are often found at alpine elevations. In the garden 
the race is not of conspicuous importance, the species not all being very 
markedly distinct, and many of them rather sickly or impure in the 
tone of their pink, especially furious, indeed, in the intensified versions 
that gardeners call splendens and coccinea. ‘The cultivation of almost 
all, however, is quite easy in light well-drained soil in full sun, where 
the commoner species will even swell into edgings. In the following 
list only the more valuable will be found, without compiling a com- 
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