BELLIUM ROTUNDIFOLIOM. 
heads of blossom may be seen on their 3-inch stems, high up beside the 
snows of Trdodos and Hermon. 
Bellidiastrum Michelii has hovered for a long time on the edge 
of Aster, and has even been accorded the name of Aster Bellidiastrum. 
Bellidiastrum, however, is by far the better name, for it holds much 
more of Bellis than of Aster. For this is the giant Daisy of moist 
places, rocks, and banks, in all the alpine woods—exactly, to the 
gardener’s eye, like an exaggerated, lax, and tall version of Bellis 
perennis, with slack limp leaves and stems of often a foot high, with 
fine white flowers. It has no especial loveliness, but for memory’s 
sake it may be given a happy place in some cool shady part of the 
rock-work. 
Bellis.—Some rock-gardens entertain a large fat pink double 
Daisy called Alice, but when this and all its kind are gone to their own 
place, there will be room for the graceful B. silvestris of the Riviera— 
an exaggerated version of the common Daisy, with looser leaves, more 
toothed and upstanding, much taller and more gracious stems, often 
-nearly a foot high, and much larger flowers, inclining to nod, and 
tinged and tipped with vivid crimson. Sandy soil and a cool 
place, 
B. rotundifolia comes from Atlas and is a most delicate lovely little 
jewel, of minute tidy leafage, grey and soft and downy; the flowers 
are dainty round daisies on upright stems. More generally cultivated 
is its variety B. r. coerulescens, in which the daisies are of a most 
subtle and diaphanous shade of pale lilac-blue, often almost evanescent 
into white. B. rotundifolia must have a very sheltered, warm, and 
perfectly-drained corner in the rock-garden if it is to prove per- 
manent there; but in any moraine it tends to become as much of a 
self-sowing weed as B. perennis itself. 
Bellium rotundifolium seems also to be B. minutum (Urv.), 
under which name it is most usually offered and cultivated. It is a micro- 
scopic Daisyling with flowers white within and darkish purple without, 
and makes a lovely mass in some choice place. It comes from Greece 
and the Levant, e.g. rocks of Therasia and Euboea. 
B. bellidioeides inhabits sandy sunny places of South France and 
Italy, and a patch of it may perhaps still be seen by one roadside 
mounting out of Cannes. It is exactly a miniature of B. perennis, 
throwing little runners, and spreading into a very pretty patch in open 
poor soil, well-drained and in full sun. (It is also called B. droserae- 
folium, Gou., and B. nivale, Regui.) 
B.crassifolium is a most charming rarity from Corsica, making a wide 
sheet in some sheltered warm and well-drained place, with minute 
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