CHAENORRHINUM GLAREOSUM. 
results, and justify its claim to being a low and densely-branched 
shrubling, with red-edged leaves and flower-heads of a glorious blue. 
C. Polhillii cannot be so praised ; though beautiful, it is best not to 
trust it in ordinary English climates. 
Chaenorrhinum glareosum is the only undisputed member of 
its family to deserve attention ; but this is a most choice and delicate 
little Toadflax of price, for a warm chink between rocks in a sheltered 
well-drained soil, or else in the moraine. It is a Spanish high-alpine, 
suggestive of a Linaria origanifolia that has got smashed down into 
a perfectly tight flat mass, where it has developed fatter, waxier, 
darker, smoother foliage, from which it throws out shoots of pinky- 
lilac small snapdragons from June to August, in a manner most neat 
and delightful. Ch. glareosum has also been held an alpine better- 
flowered form of Ch. crassifolium ; while there is no wonder that it is 
like the Linaria, for Chaenorrhinum origanifolium is actually the 
correct name of its o her Spanish cousin, so much better known in 
gardens under the auguster style of Linaria origanifolia. Ch. origani- 
folium, then, is a variable species of the Pyrenees, generally a neat 
upstanding thing of some 6 inches, with fattish dark marjoram-like 
little leaves, and a profusion of rose-purple Linaria-blossoms all 
through the later summer months. It thrives quite easily, but is not 
always perennial in very damp, low, and stagnant soils. But then, 
what is? The plant, in point of fact, is both perennial and hardy, but 
likes the sun, and light well-drained stony soil and moraine, to which 
it is no less entitled than the much minuter and neater Ch. glareosum, 
which is one of the choicest treasures there. Among the varieties of 
Ch. origanifolium, some of which might be offered as species, or under 
the name of Linaria, are Ch. o. Bourgaei, with a similar cousin 
Ch. macropodum, and Ch. o. glabratum, which should be particularly 
looked out for, as it is particularly beautiful, with larger flowers of 
richer blue-violet. As for Ch. crassifolium, this is intermediate be- 
tween Ch. origanifolium and the tiny Ch. glareosum that seems to 
have developed out of it—dwarfer, more intricate and mounded than 
the first, but not so minute and prostrate and neat as the second. 
Ch. origanifolium should always be guaranteed each year by seed or 
cuttings: and so should the others. 
Chaenostéma floribundum, an untrustworthy little rosy- 
flowered Scrophulariaceous sub-shrub from the Cape. 
Chaerophylium, a race of great Umbellifers to be avoided, unless 
for the wildest wildernesses of the wild garden. 
Chaixia Myconi.—lIf this ever appears as an alluring name in a 
catalogue, depicted as a marvellous novelty, with rosettes of hairy 
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