CHAMAEMELON. 
mullein-like leaves, and a profusion of large violet flowers with a golden 
pointil, learn that this indeed is so, and the description true. But. 
Chaixia Myconi has another name. It is Ramondia pyrenaica. 
Chamaecytisus daimaticus is an attractive low and creeping 
shrub from Dalmatia, not more than some 4 inches high, and spread- 
ing far and wide. The pea flowers are large, carried in pairs at the end 
of each little twig, while the leaves are in small trefoils, and the whole 
growth quite hairless. 
Chamaelirion luteum is a small liliaceous species from America, 
‘whose name in lists is always Ch. carolinianum. It should be grown in 
dank cool places, such as suit Alliwm ursinum. Here it sends up in 
summer, to the height of a foot or more, its dense spikes of small white 
blossoms, which have no special charm, though quite admissible, if 
only for the sake of the green and shining foliage, broadly spoon-shaped 
and on stems. 
Chamaemelon is a race almost interchangeable with Pyrethrum 
and Chrysanthemum, and indeed is frequently interchanged. All 
those here mentioned are mountain-plants of more or less value, for 
any light place and open soil, neat-growing Camomiles of ferny foliage 
and summer-flowering habits. 
Ch. caucasicum is weak or prostrate, some 6 or 18 inches high, 
with one big daisy to a stem. And there is a stunted alpine form 
called Ch. c. pumilum, which lives at great altitudes in the Eastern 
Caucasus and only attains to some 3 inches, 
Ch. daghestanicum, from some 11,500 feet in Daghestan, is a 
much more attractive thing altogether, having the large fine mar- 
gu rites of the last, but produced on stems of only 3 inches or so, 
with a few leaves upon the brief stalk and the rest gathered below 
in a sweetly fragrant tuft—the whole growth rather recalling Anthemis 
iberica. 
Ch. grandiflorum, from the grassy hills above Aleppo, has narrower, 
longer foliage than Ch. caucasicum, with longer, finer, and remoter 
strips and slashings. The stem is about 8 or 10 inches high, and the 
flower of enormous size for the plant, almost as big as in Chrysanthemum 
maximum. 
Ch. Oreades, with a variety Ch. O. Kotschyi, and another species 
Ch. monticola, from Berytagh (which is very close to it), comes near to 
Ch. saucasicum, but differs in being downy, tufted, and with more 
stems. The blossoms are of medium size, and the type is found in 
damp stony alpine fields of all Asia Minor. 
Ch. Pichleri is found in the damp woods about Brusa, and is 
closely akin to Ch. T'chihatchewit, q.v. 
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