CREPIS. 
exposures of the boldest rock-garden only. Sow seed as soon as 
ripe. 
i Crassula alpestris is a rather ugly-looking succulent of most 
doubtful hardiness, with narrow, fleshy foliage, leprous with dark 
blotches, and terminal heads of small, insignificant, pink flowers at the 
tips of the shoots. It seems only about 3 inches high, and might 
prosper permanently in a hot and stony place, though without con- 
tributing anything in the way of adornment. 
Cremanthodium, a race of Asiatic Composites, of which some 
are greatly to be desired. They are close to Ligularia, but with 
nodding flowers. C. pinnatum is a lovely thing from the Kankola 
valley in Sikkim, between 12,000 and 13,000 feet. The leaves are 
at the base, kidney-shaped, and then deeply cut into five or ten lobes, 
almost to the stem ; the stalks are from 4 to 7 inches high, slender and 
hairy, each carrying one very large flower of soft pink, the spckes being 
notched two or three times or more at the end, so as to give a fringy 
effect, while the blossom is held horizontally, the rays standing up and 
then opening out in bell-shaped design. C. pinnatifidwm is much the 
same, but that here the leaves are almost all at the base, but with 
just a few on the scapes, whose flowers are yellow. This comes from 
the same valley at greater heights, and there are many more species 
yet to come, though hitherto C. pinnatum (with C. rhodocephalum) 
alone breaks the family record with pink blossoms. See Appendix. 
Crenularia, a family of really beautiful cruciferous plants from 
the Levant, close to Aethionema, and asking the same treatment, 
which they repay with the same beauty. (Seed, and cuttings in 
August.) 
C. eunomioerdes, from alpine crevices in the Cilician Taurus, makes 
a woody, twisted little bush, standing erect, and with its twigs thickly 
set with fleshy rounded leaves in pairs, and ending in clusters of large 
pink blossoms. 
C. glauca makes a mound not more than 3 or 4 inches high, of leafy 
blue-grey twigs, ending in a head of large rose-pink flowers. It much 
recalls Iberis saxatilis or Aeth. schistosum, and has itself been called 
Aethionema Balansae. (Cilician Taurus.) 
C. orbiculata is half the size of this in all parts, except the flowers— 
emitting frail, densely leafy, short shoots from a fat and barky stock, 
with fleshy leaves in pairs, oval-rounded, and noble pink blossoms. 
(From the summits of Athos, Taygetos, &c). (Eunomia.) 
Crepis,—No Crepis is worthy of admission to the rock-garden— 
or to any other but the wild-weed garden only—except the following : 
C. incisa, all cobwebby and fluffy, with a number of dwarf fat 
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