COPROSMA. 
that the foliage is smooth and silverless above, while below it is 
vested in rough whiteness. The flowers, on short stems, are reddish 
pink, with five blotches of dark purple at the base, about half an 
inch across. 
C. sabatius is an extremely rare species, being confined entirely to 
that Capo di Noli so fertile in rarities. This, for the same uses 
and situations as C. mauritanicus, has the same large and lovely 
blue vases, but does not trail or wander, being content to sit at home 
in an ever-widening clump, from which are thrown out the 6- or 8-inch 
sprays of blossom. It is no less rare in cultivation than in nature. 
C. Soldanella is the trailing Convolvulus of English shingle-banks 
by the sea, and not unworthy of a remote place upon the moraine, 
where its frail fat white shoots may wander about, with their fleshy 
glossy leaves like those of a Soldanella indeed, but three times the 
size. The trailing stems end in large open trumpets of pink and 
white. 
C. stans is much more upward-growing, a typical silvery Bush- 
convolvulus from the South, set thickly with shimmering leafege 
and clustered heads of white. In the North it is hardy, but rarely 
thrives or blooms; in the South, however, and in the sun, it makes 
a fine effect. 
Coprosma.—tThere are thirty-nine species of this unpleasantly 
named New Zealand race ; the one in cultivation is C. acerosa, a low, 
wide, and prostrate shrubling, with its branches clothed in narrow 
leafage, and its valueless flower succeeded by a handsome bloomy 
blueberry of the sort that is officially styled a drupe. It is hardy, 
and thrives in light peaty or loamy soil. 
Coptis, a race of small woodlanders of the utmost charm, easily 
to be cultivated in cool places in rich woodland soil. C. asplenifolia 
runs over the ground, carpeting the soil beneath Primulas and 
Meconopsis and Aquilegia with waving delicate fronds of fern-lke 
foliage, from among which rise flowers like elfin white buttercups. 
C. brachyphylla repeats the charm of this, but is larger in all its parts. 
C. anemonaefolia has leaves so jagged and saw-edged as to look almost 
spiny, and the spike of flowers is smaller. But most attractive of all 
are C. quinquefolia and C. trifolia ; the first has five-lobed leaves like 
those of some Potentilla, one or two from the tuft, about an inch and 
a half long in all, and between them, standing erect toward the daylight 
on an inch-tall stem, one single white star-cup like the daintiest of 
high-alpine buttercups. This same loveliness is repeated exactly by 
C. trifolia, but here the foliage has been stolen bodily from the 
Cardamine of that name. 
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