CHELIDONIUM. 
moraines of Tibet. Here, in the stones between 12,000 and 16,000 
feet, dwells Ch. albiflorus, a tuft of grey downy foliage with white 
blossoms in rather dense spikes. 
Ch. himalaiensis (see Parrya) is a jewel of cold stone-slopes up to 
17,000 feet in Western Tibet, where it forms many clumps, making 
a neat mass of foliage, from which are sent up 6-inch stems carrying 
rather close heads of deliciously-scented violet-purple flowers. 
Ch. x kewensis is a garden hybrid, often appearing under the false 
name of Ch. mutabilis, but none the less a handsome if not certainly 
permanent acquisition—a wallflower of compact bushy habit and large 
growth (it attains 18 inches), with flowers varying through gold and 
bronze to violet. There is also another beautiful cross raised by 
Miss King, of subtle shades and neat habit and delicious fragrance and 
perpetual-blooming character. This, though no more surely perennial, 
and sterile, can be of course multiplied at will from cuttings. Ch. 
Marshallit is yet another garden-plant, of clear bright colour; and 
without doubt there are many others in existence or yet to come. 
Ch. Menziesii=Parrya Menziesii, q.v. 
Ch. mutabilis should be one of the parents responsible for Ch. 
Kewensis. It is a lower-growing species from the Canaries, not very 
hardy or long-lived as a rule, and hardly exceeding a foot in height, 
with flowers of a curiously sad and subtle violet, faded and wistful as 
the memory of an old maid’s love-story. Distrust the name in lists. 
Ch. parryoeides makes basal rosettes of narrow-rounded leaves, 
dense with a coat of grey wool to guarantee them against the winds 
that are born on the Roof of the World. And then appears a naked 
9-inch scape carrying a spike of deep purple blossom. 
Ch. Stuartit almost precisely repeats the beauty of Ch. himalaiensis 
in the highest screes of Ladak; but here the foliage is toothed at the 
tip, the pods are slender and bald, while the flowers open tawny and 
then develop into violet. Sced will be the only hope of these, and 
should always be collected yearly, for but few wallflowers have a 
long life, even if officially perennial—as may indeed be judged by the 
disproportion between their lush and stalwart development above 
ground, and the weak-looking ephemeral tap that supports their 
existence. 
Chelidonium, the Great Celandine, that pretty weed, stands like 
Meconopsis cambrica, as the lonely outlying representative in Western 
Europe of an Asiatic mountain-clan, now divided up on small but 
significant botanical differences, though here, seeing their strong 
generic resemblances, it may not be amiss to treat them all under 
the heading of Chelidonium, all alike being Poppyworts of the same 
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