CHAMAENERION. 
Ch. rosellum runs the risk of being pretty. For the rays of the 
flower, though so short as even to be less than its disk, are pale pink ; 
it forms a tuft at some 3000 feet on Malevo in Laconia, and only emits 
a couple of flower-stems or so from its neck. 
Ch. Szowitsii is yet another species closely allied to Ch. caucasicum. 
Ch. T chihatchewii is the only species in common cultivation—a thing 
of much use and no contemptible degree of beauty, which makes the 
gardener less sceptic about the rest of the family. For Ch. Tchi- 
hatchewii forms, in the first place, never-ending, never-failing mats of 
bright dark-green glossy ferny leafage all over the ground, far and 
wide, no matter how hot and dry and worthless, no matter how cold 
and poor and helpless. It is perhaps one of the finest carpeting 
weeds we have, and is even used for forming lawns in places where 
grass proves impossible. But the blooms that so copiously come up 
from that lovely flooring on sturdy little stems of 6 or 8 inches, are 
hardly worthy of the plant’s mellifluous name—they are little gleaming 
Camomiles of white with a dimmed eye of green and yellow. The 
species comes from the Maritime hills of Anatolia, and may now be 
seen growing on the French Riviera by hundreds of yards. 
Chamaenerion is EHypilobium—so sad a disappointment after 
a name so suggestive of loveliness: a Ground-Oleander would indeed 
be worth ensuing. 
Chamaepeuce diacantha and Ch. nivea are glossy-leaved, 
spiny, white-veined thistles of South Europe, attaining some foot or 
more in height, which can be grown on any hot dry place if so desired. 
Chariolepis Biebersteinii and Ch. Tournefortii are the re- 
spective Centaureas treated under these two names, q.v. 
Cheiranthus.—This race has no certain borders, and many of its 
finest species have now strayed over the line, and will be found in the 
folds of Parrya and Erysimum, in which new species of Cheiranthus 
should always be looked up, lest the novelty prove only an old friend 
under a new family name. 
Ch. Allionii is also Erysimum, q.v. 
Ch. alpinus must certainly be looked for either under Hrysimum 
canescens, HL. ochroleucum, or EH. Cheiranthus. 
Ch. Cheiri, left almost alone in its glory, is enough to bear the 
name with dignity, and the dwarf horticultural forms of the Wall- 
flower serve admirably for sowing on the austerer cliffs of the great 
rock-garden or wild precipice. 
Ch. albiflorus is of another kidney, heading a section of unknown 
wallflowers from the Roof of the World, which should have the 
choicest position in the moraine, if they are to forget their own grisly 
220 
