COLOBANTHUS ACICULARIS. 
unimportant C. fasciculare (C. fasciculatum of some catalogues), 
and C. Ritchii, these all having small siars emitted in spring with 
the leaves. 
C. turcicum is exactly like C. autumnale, and a contemporary, 
but has borrowed its prostrate curling waving narrow foliage from 
C. Parkinsonti. (From Buyukdere in the suburbs of Byzantium.) 
C. umbrosum produces small lilac flowers in the autumn, followed 
by unobtrusive leaves, and is possibly only a form of C. arenarium 
with strap-shaped foliage. 
C. variegatum inhabits the stony fields of Crete. It is the parent 
species of C. Parkinsonii, having the same fantastic chequered blooms 
in autumn, but of a lighter pink, and rather larger ; while the narrow 
leaves are held erect. It is a variable species, of which forms some- 
times appear as species—an instance being C. chionense. And 
there are other true species, but none as yet of conspicuously dis- 
tinct merit from those quoted above. 
C. veratrifolium is a close cousin to C. speciosum, but earlier, 
darker and larger in the goblet. 
Colobanthus acicularis is an undistinguished curiosity from 
New Zealand, for a dry and sunny place. It suggests a patch of 
moss set with dullish greenish stars, like a Cherleria. 
Colurea potentilloeides. See under Waldsteinia. 
Coluteocarpus reticulatus (see under Vesicaria); an alpine 
Crucifer from the Levant, making clumps of rosettes, with little 
hairless toothed leaves, from which come heads of flowers like a 
Thlaspi’s. Simple culture in light soil, as for Cochlearia or Draba. 
Comarella multifoliata, or Ivesia Purpusii, is an interesting 
thing from Arizona, for dry stony places and the warmest exposures. 
It forms low masses, not more than seven or eight inches high, of 
beautiful foliage suggesting that of Aspleniwm Trichomanes, but very 
much stiffened and elongated; the flowers are carried well above 
these, in a loose shower like that of some Hypericum’s, at the top of 
a bare fine stem. They are small brownish stars of no startling charm, 
Comare!la’s chief value lying in its leafage. It can be propagated by 
cuttings or division. 
Conandron ramondioeides ought most certainly to be 
hardy, and yet is not beyond suspicion in the matter. It is a most 
beautiful Japanese rock-plant, rambling over the face of the stone, 
and sheeting the cliffs (as behind the Kencho-ji at Kamakura, for 
instance) in a solid curtain Of its ample glossy crinkled fleshy foliage, 
amid which spring so freely on stalks of a few inches those heads of 
lilac flowers with a bright golden eye, suggesting that a glorified 
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