CALLIANTHEMUM. 
rutaefolius, by far the commonest, but also the least attractive of its 
race, having a wide but very scattered distribution from the Pyrenees 
(where it is extremely rare) away, at intervals through all the alpine 
chains, as far as Transylvania and Bosnia, having three special bunches 
of abundance—on the Graians and Swiss-Italian borders about the 
lower Engadine; then, all along the Hohe Tauern and Ziller-thaler 
ranges and down into the Dolomites; and now a big bare space is 
left on the map, until the plant reappears at last in a long caterpillar- 
curve of distribution, from the Hungarian Carpathians through 
Roumania and Transylvania down to Bosnia. It is a species of the 
alpine turf, and may be seen very abundant in places on the Mont 
Cenis, on the Pasterze moor above Heiligenblut, on the Schlern, and 
on many other beautiful and trodden slopes—a tuft of rather rank 
development, with most ample coriandrous foliage, handsome, fat — 
and ferny, and flower-stems unfolded at the same time, rather low, 
and branching into one or two foot-stalks, each carrying a typical 
daisy of the family (rather inadequate to the lush foliage), though 
here the resemblance is rather to Camomile than to Chrysanthemum, 
the rays being fewer, broader, and shorter, of a cold dead white, still 
further chilled by the eye of the blossom, which has a greenish-yellow 
note. To keep it starved, however, so that at home this dispro- 
portion of leaf to blossom should not be felt, it is better to grow C. 
coriandrifolium not in the fat kitchen-garden soil that it loves, but in 
a poor stony mixture akin to moraine. 
C. Kernerianum, Freyn, is the strangest and loneliest of the race—a 
remote thrown-off colony from C. anemonoeides, which in the whole 
world is only to be seen in the grassy turf along the summit ridges of 
Monte Baldo (with here and there a rare occurrence in Judicaria), where, 
however, it makes a lavish carpet in company with Geranium argenteum, 
Gentiana vulgaris, Ranunculus alpester, Edelweiss, and the Primulas 
spectabilis and Auricula. It was long held a mere variety of C. ane- 
monoeides, which it greatly resembles, but is a much finer, frailer, 
smaller thing altogether, not forming into a clump, and hugging the 
ground closely not only with the very beautiful, fringier, blue-grey 
fern-fronds of its foliage, but also with the large single flowers of 
lilac-white. In cultivation it is as easy as the rest, though far more 
select and exquisite, even if no more beautiful ; and for a select place 
accordingly in the underground-watered bed or well-soiled moraine 
mixture, among the choicest treasures. A particularly fine photo- 
graph from Edinburgh, figured in 1913, and claiming to represent C. 
anemonocides, was clearly in reality a remarkable specimen of this 
much rarer species. (See also Appendix.) 
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