CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
to the height of some 5 inches, unfolding into a loose radiating head of 
perhaps eight or ten white blossoms, waxy and sweet as in the last, 
but rather smaller, by virtue of being so much more numerous. 
(Woods of all North America.) 
Ch. Menziesii repeats across the Pacific, in the woods of California, 
exactly the loveliness and grace of Ch. japonica, but here the habit 
is much more prostrate. 
Ch. picta—Pyrola picta, q.v. 
Ch. umbellata follows in the line of Ch. maculata, but surpasses it, 
The sturdy tufted habit is the same, but the dark and leathery leaves 
have no markings at all, and are yet more sharply and regularly 
toothed ; while the flowers, carried in the same way, and of the same 
size, are of delicate rose-pink, with purple anthers. 
Chiogenes serpyllifolia and Ch. hispidula are small trailing 
Ericaceous plants from wet boggy places and cool woods, from 
Newfoundland through North America. They send out across the 
face of the earth a number of little stems, set with oval evergreen 
leaves, turning to russet ; and then emit small white bells. There are 
other species also, of which C. japonica differs in having the leaves 
tapering to the stem. All should be grown on the most shady side 
of the cool bog, or in gritty peat in the underground-watered moraine 
(with a specially large proportion of spongy soil). 
Chionodoxa and Chionoscilla. See any catalogue of these 
joyous spring delights, where their names and relationships will be 
found set forth. 
Chionophila Jamesii, a neat small alpine cousin of Pent- 
stemon, from the alpine turf of Colorado, where it forms neat basal 
tufts of foliage, and sends up 6-inch spikes of dense creamy flowers 
in summer. As it calls itself a lover of the snow, it deserves a place 
in moist ground, or perhaps even in the well-watered gritty moraine. 
Chrysanthemum.—aAlthough such huge plants as Ch. macro- 
phyllum (which suggests nothing so much as a gigantic and ugly flat- 
headed Achillea) are scarcely wanted in the garden, yet there is a 
choice alpine section especially suited to the moist moraine, and 
indeed occasionally demanding it. Almost all the following names 
are. sometimes regarded as interchangeable with Pyrethrum and 
Chamaemelon ; which see when in doubt. 
Chr. alpinum is that beautiful little high-alpine which is almost 
inevitable in the topmost moist shingles of certain ranges, with its 
fat fine foliage, and its golden-eyed single Marguerites of brilliant 
white on weak stalks of only afew inches. This should be grown under 
siunilar conditions at home; it is by no means so easy and inde- 
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