ERITRICHIUM. 
hairier thing altogether, in a much lighter and more delicate tone of 
pink, with lines of brilliant crimson in the throat. This may be seen 
all over the South of Europe, and has established itself on the Roman 
Wall at Hexham. 
Eriogonum, a strange race of most improbable-looking Rocky 
Mountain Umbellifers—woody and prostrate small bushes, with heads 
of flower in a large cup, often shaggy. There area bewildering number 
of these, but the only one in general cultivation is HL. subumbellatum, 
with heads of yellow; this thrives in the open in light peaty soil, 
and it is probable that many others of its fellow-countrymen will do 
the same, and should be introduced, if only for the neatness of their 
habit and carpeting tufts of oval downy leathery leaves gathered into 
rosettes or clusters at the base of the shoots. Among the others may 
be mentioned: H. subalpinum, near EH. subumbellatum, with flowers and 
heads varying from white to deep purple, borne in lavish numbers on 
a mass of special density ; Z. flavum, E. niveum (yellow-gold and snow- 
white heads respectively), H. campanulatum, E. arborescens (pink), 
and many another, idle at present to name, seeing that few are within 
reach, and still fewer deserving to be clutched at with any violent 
zeal, for after all they are an “‘interesting”’ rather than a_ brilliant 
race, suggesting clustered Everlastings more than Umbellifers. 
Eriogyna pectinata is more properly known as Spiraea, q.v. 
Eriophyllum, a race of American Composites of which £. 
confertiflorum and E. caespitosum are both worth growing in light soil 
and a sunny place. This latter makes large dense masses of low 
growth, with divided foliage, greyish-white with down, and then 
emits in June a profusion of flower-heads on shoots of about 6 or 8 
inches, these flowers being big disks of rich yellow, surrounded at 
intervals by some eight broad and very short rays of much lighter 
tone, giving almost the effect of blobs round the circumference of the 
orbicular bloom. 
Eritrichium.—In a race of dowdy and impermanent weeds 
lies lurking, like the precious jewel in the head of the toad, the Crowned 
King of the Alps, the Herald of Heaven, Woolly-hair the Dwarf. 
But in the vast family of Eritrichium we may first deal with the few 
other species that ask admission, before we go on to the huge aggre- 
gate gathering round that HZ. nanwm of many years’ devotion, which 
ought now to be ealled by its prior ridiculous name of ZL. tergloviense. 
The first of these is a really pretty little Himalayan species, L. stric- 
tum, which is none other than the plant now sometimes offered by 
catalogues as Cynoglossum Wallichii. This is, or should be, a sound 
perennial, with a woody base, that sends up many stiff straight 8-inch 
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