CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
structible as it looks, but should have well-watered gritty moraine- 
mixture, and be carefully top-dressed in spring. 
Chr. anomalum is almost a neat bush of 6 inches or a foot, in the 
high rocky places and muddy channels of the mountains of Northern 
and Eastern Spain ; it is clothed in close silk, and yet is bright green, 
with finely-divided foliage, and big white flowers whose eye fades 
from gold to red. 
Chr. arundanum comes from about 6000 feet up in the Sierra de 
Ronda, where it forms a very dense mass indeed of closely hairy 
leafage, cut into threes and then again into threes. From this thrust 
up the naked stems of an inch or two, each carrying a Marguerite of 
pink or white. 
Chr. atratum (C. coronopifolium) grows some 7 inches high, and 
its leaves are only toothed, not feathered. 
Chr. flaveolum is a silky tuft from Leon, with smaller yellow daisies 
on 6-inch stems. 
Chr. hispanicum is downy or silky, with jagged feathered foliage that 
does not follow far up the 2- to 10-inch stems. Each of these carries 
a single large flower varying from white through yellow and sulphur 
to purple, with the tips of each ray jagged into three teeth. A widely 
variable species from the high Alps of all the Spanish mountains up 
to 11,000 feet. Its named varieties are Chr. h. radicans, versicolor, 
sulfureum, and in all its forms it is a treasure to be much desired. 
Chr. montanum is rather taller than Chr. alpinum, and here the 
fat green leaves are not divided, but merely sharply-toothed. It is 
general in the Alps. Other mountain Chrysanthemums after the 
same sort are: Chr. arciicum (pinkish), Chr. argenteum, Chr. cerato- 
phyllum, &c. 
Chr. nipponicum is a tallish, leafy and not always permanent 
plant, attaining some 15 inches; while the rock-garden has no room 
for gigantic Ch. lacustre and Ch. latifolium, Chr. Zawadskyi, though 
much smaller, is a rather leafy thing of about 9 inches or a foot, 
whose flowers it is flattery to describe as “ rose clair,” for they are in 
reality, as a rule, of a rather pallid dim tone. 
Chr. tibeticum is a very handsome species, sticky and sweet-scented, 
and sub-shrubby, making tuffets of 6 inches high at some 9000 to 
13,000 feet in Tibet, with delightful blooms of pink or white on long 
stems. Similar to this are Chr. Griffithii and Chr. Stoliczar, which have 
the same large flowers of snow-white, but are slenderer, with longer 
and less divided branches, and leaves more finely cut. 
Chr. tomentosum,a most beautiful little development of Chr. alpinum 
from Corsica, which, like several other Corsican forms of high-alpines, 
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