ARONICUM. 
peat that sometimes fails to inspire heart into A. montana. Of these 
probably the best will prove A. chionopappa, about 12 inches high, 
with graceful stems, and about three large flowers; its basal leaves 
are on fine long stalks, and it comes from cold limy cliffs in East 
Quebec ; A. mollis, often called A. Chamissonis (Man.), or A. lanceolata 
(Nutt.), twice as tall, crisply hairy with soft hairs, with many flowers, 
each perhaps 3 inches across ; A. cordifolia, a 2-foot plant with coarsely- 
toothed leaves, and 2- or 3-inch blossom-heads on fine foot-stalks; A. 
acaulis, very handsome, and suggesting A. montana, forming a basal 
rosette of thick leaves, from which comes up a scape carrying one 
large and brilliantly showy golden-orange flower ; A. fulgens has sharp 
oblong leaves and golden blooms on long stalks, attaining in all a 
foot or so; while A. Louisiana is the gem of the lot—a rare little beauty 
from the neighbourhood of Lake Louise, only about 8 inches high, 
with elliptic glandular foliage, and a number of beautiful nodding 
flowers of a very pale yellow and with rays so few and broad and 
pointed as to give the effect of a citron-coloured star. 
Aronicum; a race so closely akin to Doronicum that there is no 
real telling them finally apart. There are, however, three species 
(or more or less species) that bear this name in the main chains of the 
Alps, and it may therefore be useful to precisify them a little. These 
are all native to considerable elevations, found often in damp water- 
courses, in stony places and in the highest shingles, where their lush 
and leafy habit always seems out of place, and as if they must certainly 
be half-hardy things planted there by some faddist who perhaps 
had taken a dislike to them. 
A. Clusii has its hairy leaves narrow-oblong on a foot-stalk. They 
are widened, indeed, so as to be broadly oval, but not to the point of 
making lobes like a heart—or, rather, more obviously triangular. 
The stem-leaves sit straight to the stalk, and almost clasp it, but 
without flowing out into rounded lobes on the other side. The hollow 
hairy stem is never branched, about 6 or 9 inches high, with rather 
smaller flowers than in the others, only some inch and a half across. 
A. glaciale (if the species be recognised) is shorter still, hardly more 
than half a foot high, from a spreading scaly dark root-stock; the 
basal leaves are blunt and oblong, diminishing to their petiole and 
widened at the base; the lower stem-leaves are narrow, embracing 
the stem and overflowing on the other side in short broad wings ; the 
upper ones have leaf-stalks, and all widely coarsely toothed with 
open teeth. The pale suns are about an inch or an inch and a half 
across. Not everyone, however, admits the existence of A. glaciale. 
A. scorpioeides has a fat pale horizontal root-stock, from which come 
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