ERITRICHIUM TERGLOVIENSE. 
stems in summer with branching sprays, near the top, of lovely flowers, 
purely celestial, and making a fine effect against the close-ironed silver 
down in which the clump is vested. It has a yet more lovely form 
than itself, H. s. Thompsoni, which is larger in growth and larger in 
flower, and silverier in complexion. Then comes H. Guglielmi from 
Japan, charming in a daintier way, having a tuft of small upstanding 
oval leaves, from amid which rises a loose erect spike of blue stars 
about 6 inches high or more, the whole plant suggesting rather an 
Omphalodes (and, indeed, as in many Borragineous families, the 
separations of kinship are obscure, and Eritrichium, Omphalodes, 
Cynoglossum, and Paracaryum are all names that fade so subtly into 
each other as sometimes to be interchangeable and interchanged). 
E. basificum is yet another high Indian alpine, making very dense 
clumps with one, or a few, erect shoots of some half a foot, dividing at 
the tip, and carrying blossoms cf blue-violet. 
Eritrichium tergloviense.—lIt is quite impossible, priority or 
no priority, that a name so limited and restrictive should apply to a 
species so vast and catholic as E. nanum that was. The type is one 
of enormous range, not only high-alpine but Arctic, all along the great 
mountain ranges and frozen islands alike of the Old World and the 
New. Almost every chain and every country has its Eritrichium, on 
the lonely and fearsome crests of the rocks, or lining the seashore of 
the Arctic Circle with its silver velvet cushions. And all are offshoots 
or contemporary developments with the King of the Alps. Of larger 
plants, however, less closely connected, Himalaya offers us H. villosum, 
E. latifolium, E. sericeum, all silver-silky high-alpine tufts of azure 
blossom, but less tight and close than HL. nanum, suggesting rather 
Myosotis rupicola. But of pure Nanum-cousins a representative will 
surely be found on every mountain system and on every island of the 
far North. EH. persicum hugs the topmost rocks of Elburs—a diminished 
E. nanum in its flower; in the Eastern Alps of Europe dwelis #. Jankae; 
but the Roof of the World seems bare of true LH. nanum, nor do we 
hear of it from its eaves, descending in range over range down into 
China; but all are possessed by the larger forms and species already 
quoted. In fact #. nanum is rather Arctic than alpine in its range, 
a strayed visitor in the high central chains of Europe and Asia, from 
the focus of its distribution along the fringes of the Arctic Circle. 
On Spitzbergen it carpets the low lands by the sea, and across Russia 
and Siberia go various forms. 2H. Chamissonis, with broader, stouter 
leaves never pointed, hairier with whiter hairs, and overlapping on the 
stems, pervades the whole of Northern Asia, and crosses by the 
Aleutian Islands into America. JZ. aretioeides has the same range but 
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