EOMECON CHIONANTHA. 
_ EE. Kitaebeli may be recognised on close inspection. For it is the 
only member of the family that in the bay of the calyx-lobes has, 
between each, a little reflexing tooth of green. ‘The whole plant is itself 
of bright-green colouring, not greyish like the last, of which it otherwise 
looks like a larger and robuster form. (Hills of Croatia.) 
E. niveus stands brilliantly out in the group as the mest beautiful 
of all—though quite unknown in cultivation. Here and there on the 
ranges of Bosnia, limestone crops out among the granite: and there at 
once, upon the highest sunny peaks, appears a pure-white Hdraianthus, 
with clusters of great velvety bells, smooth on the outside, flopping in 
their snowy bunches on violet stems, from the clumps of long narrow 
leaves most hairy at their ends. It is a very lovely thing, and per- 
fectly distinct. Albinoes, apart from this—a true unvarying species 
—are extraordinarily rare, if not unknown, in the race. 
E. Parnassi is an ugly Cluster-head, hovering between Hdraianthus 
and Campanula, with rosettes of fringed leaves and a foot-high stem 
bearing a bunch of small purple bells in long calyces. 
E. serbicus is a true species, growing wpright about 7 or 8 inches 
—a hairless plant too, with clusters of purple bells about an inch 
long. 
E. tenuifolius, DC, is probably no more than #. caricinus, Schott, 
and they are both certainly no more than poorer developments of 
LE. graminifolius. 
Eemécon chionantha, the Poppy of the Dawn, is a beautiful 
Chinese Poppy-wort from Kwangsi, northwards from Hong-Kong, 
which is none the less quite hardy, and in any moist warm corner at the 
foot of the rock-work ramps prodigiously and even becomes excessive 
with its runners; the rather heart-shaped scalloped fleshy leaves of 
whitish-glaucous tone are very beautiful on their stems of some 6 or 8 
inches ; unfortunately these are usually the only stems the plant pro- 
duces—being painfully chary, as a rule, unless specially well ripened, 
of its foot-high divided stems emerging from the sheathing leaf-stalks 
to carry four-petalled milky-white poppies of full rotundity and 
charm, like small versions of the white P. alpinum, in full summer. 
Epigaea is almost a monotypic race, though with an Asiatic 
development. JH. repens is the American Ground-ivy, quite common 
there, and often gathered up in its mats, and stored “down cellar” 
in trays of leaf-mould so as to be brought up at Christmas to delight 
the house with its creeping masses of rather ample oval roughish green 
leaves, amid which in clusters shine the waxy stars of pearl-pale 
blossom, exhaling a steady breath of the most delicious fragrance. It is 
not easy to get good specimens of Hpigaea in England. For, like all of 
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