CALCEOLARIA. 
plant, with a rosette of narrow fleshy leaves hugging the ground, and 
purplish-crimson silky flowers, usually by themselves on a naked stem 
of some 2 inches. This is also the hardier, but unfortunately also 
the rarer. (The family stands close akin to Lewisia.) 
C. umbellata is common in cultivation, growing about 6 inches high, 
with a loose umbel of repulsively aniline crimson blossoms, satiny and 
rich. These both are best raised from seed. 
Calceolaria has hardly yet begun to arrive. This gorgeous family 
belongs to South America, and occupies all the mountainous backbone 
of the Andes, extending into the Antarctic Islands far down in the 
inclement South. And so many are the alpine members of the race, 
too, that it is impossible but that many of them shall prove as hardy 
as they are beautiful. But at present the average garden thinks itself 
rather advanced and adventurous if it admits the two well-known 
species—though these two are both as hearty and vigorous as 
dandelions. (See also Jovellana.) 
C. Darwinit has the habit of C. polyrrhiza—that is, it forms a ram- 
pant spreading mat, from which spring fine stems, branching from a 
pair of leaves near its base, into twin peduncles long and delicate of 
5 inches or so, each carrying one solitary flower, with an enormous 
flattened triangular bag of a yellow lip, spotted with chestnut just by 
the rim. This is an Antarctic plant, almost wholly smooth, which 
should prove a glorious treasure when at last introduced successfully. 
C. Fothergillit is a creeping species with hairy little leaves, rounded, 
spoon-shaped, and opposite each other at the base of the stems, which 
rise to some 3 or 4 inches, each carrying one flat-bagged yellow 
flower spotted with red or violet. This inhabits cold exposed places 
in the cold exposed Falkland Islands, and ought to find an English 
garden a Capua. It is impossible to say more for the treatment of 
these almost untried treasures, than that they will probably enjoy a 
deep, cool, and rather moist soil, preferentially of a peaty complexion, 
perfectly well-drained, and with so ample an allowance of sharp 
stones that the bed will almost take on the aspect of a moraine—which 
precise conditions, indeed, some of the species affect in nature. But 
very likely none of these precautions will prove necessary, any more 
than for C. plantaginea. 
C. falklandica is like a woodier C. uniflora, but has a more diffuse 
habit, longer foliage, and flowers dotted with purple. 
C. glacialis, by its mere name, makes the heart of the gardener 
leap up in anticipation. It is found in exactly the preferred situations 
of Ranunculus glacialis, beside the mountain-lakes of Potosi at snow- 
level of Quebrada in the Bolivian Andes. Here it forms the most 
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