ERITRICHIUM TERGLOVIENSE. 
9000 or 10,000 feet—as, for instance, in the Engadine, where the high 
granites of the Languard, Piz Ot, and the Rosegg are full of it—in the 
Southern ranges it will be met with at much lower elevations of seven 
or eight. Its Central European form is invariably calcifuge to the 
intensest degree, but there are, or have been, a few suspicious records 
of it on the dolomite of the Rosengarten, Pala, and Brenta groups ; 
yet so violent is the plant’s evident preference for granite or volcanic 
crag, so invariable one’s own experience that on limestone it is perfectly 
useless to look for it, even in its own districts, where its occurrence 
on the granite close by may be taken for granted, that one had 
better verify such records of it on limestone for oneself before putting 
any confidence in them. I have been told, indeed, that in the Kara- 
wanken it is never found anywhere but on the limestone—a state- 
ment which gave me many a gulp before I could get it down, the 
more so as my informant had just pointed out to me Campanula Bel- 
lardii as C. Scheuchzeri, and had offered me plants of C. pulla under 
the name of C. Morettiana. Yet, with regard to the far Eastern Alps, 
the Balkans and Transylvania, judgment may be held in arrest ; it is 
rather probable than otherwise that Eritrichium, in its determination to 
haunt the highest crests everywhere, must sometimes find itself obliged 
to put up with limestone. In the well-trodden ranges, however, it 
may be taken as absolutely calcifuge, all rumours notwithstanding. 
In form I do not know that much variation can be established. 
It is peculiarly magnificent on the Angstbord Pass, and plants from 
thence appeared to possess a stronger habit than most. The beauty of 
it on the Col de Clapier, again, is such as to stimulate tired hearts far 
more than whole meals of alpine wormwood, but its results in culti- 
vation have not been good. The most glorious of the stations known 
to me is also the most accessible—all along the ridge of Padon, above 
the level Bindelweg, from the motor-reached level of the Pordoi Pass, 
where it is in profusion so prodigal as even to make blue jewel-work in 
blots on the stone-heaps by the track side, while the unscaleable 
black cliffs overhead are filmed in August with a dim suggestion from 
far away, which when you draw nearer to their feet, may be seen to 
consist in myriad tufts of Eritrichium, blotches and splashes of sky 
adhering all up and down those dark and immune precipices. Here 
there was a white form of special size, with golden margins to the 
leaves ;-and yet another on the Passo delle Selle, where suddenly to 
your surprise, as you come up over the cold moor veiled violet with 
Primula glutinosa, you find the shallow summit-ridge ablaze with 
Eritrichium. From both these stations specimens have proved to have 
a fair resisting power—in some cases a quite remarkable resisting power. 
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