DORONICUM. 
D. radicatum, beautiful and hearty, and profuse in shoots; D. crucia- 
tum (D. speciosum of gardens), eminently handsome, about 8 or 10 
inches high, with very short and broad rhomboidal leaves, and flowers 
of great amplitude and brilliant red-purple, deepening to the base and 
there ringed with yellow ; D. Hendersonii, intensely green leaves and 
larger bracts under the head of the blossoms, which are as those of 
D. frigidum on stems of about a foot; D. patulum, pale-green, and 
with stems of only about 8 inches, clothed in minute glands, and with 
white flowers, with a yellow ring at the base and then a purple mouth 
(there is a dwarfer alpine form of this called D. p. bernalinum, with 
rosy flowers and with a broad white or creamy band at the mouth ; 
it blooms in March on the summit of Bernal, by San Francisco). All 
these should be raised from seed, and can also be sometimes procured 
from their native places. The smaller species are here all on record ; 
of the larger, the garden could well content itself with those pre- 
viously named. They are all summer and early summer bloomers. 
(The race supplements the poverty of Primula in America.) 
Doronicum has not, like Aronicum, the recommendation of 
being at least a high alpine race (even if its members may not 
look it). Moreover, if any of them are to adorn the remoter wilder 
higher parts of the rock-garden in spring, the species are all much 
of a muchness in their leafy, rank, rampageous habit, stout stature, 
and coarse yellow suns of blossom. 
Dorycnium, not a valuable race of tufty Pea-flowers from the 
South, herbaceous or sub-shrubby, shrouded in grey leafage, with 
heads of smallish pinkish flowers not large enough to make any worthy 
effect. The neatest is D. herbaceum, about 10 inches high, the two 
others most often offered are D. latifolium, and D. suffruticosum, both 
rather rank and insignificant things of a foot or more, not of any fine 
show, though the stems are not ungraceful. 
Dougiasia, a group closely akin to Androsace, entirely confined 
to America, with one beautiful strayed reveller over the high Alps of 
South Europe. They should have choice positions in the grittiest 
and stoniest underground-watered bed of sandy, peaty leaf-mould, 
for they do not always take to the Spartan régime of the moraine. 
D. arctica isa tight and tiny species very close to D. montana, of 
which it is only probably a form, with flowers lonely over the clump, 
on stems about twice the length of the small, blunt, compacted leaves. 
D. “ cinerea”’ of a recent plant-list might be D. dentata, but that 
the blooms.are said to be white. It is mcst probably only a form 
of D. Vitaliana. 
D. dentata.—This plant (being taken as identical with D. Dickieana), 
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