ERYSIMUM. 
stem, from the Cilician Taurus; and yet another, 2. k. Jacomellit, 
from the Bithynian Olympus. 
E. Kotschyi. See under LE. gelidum. 
E. linifolium grows into a branching bush often of 2 feet high in 
the dry clifis of the Serra de Estrella in Portugal, where it makes a 
noble sight with its big purple blooms. But its usual habit is rather 
to be creeping and procumbent, with most graceful stems of 5 inches 
or so, delicately ascending from the mat, well above the narrow green 
leaves. And there is aiso a variety yet more especially to be craved 
for the rock-garden; being #. I. filifoliwm, a minutely-tufted dense 
alpine form, with undiminished lovely flowers. The type itself, however, 
is sufficient of a delight, requiring the very hottest, poorest ground 
on pain of proving itself less than a perennial, but there developing 
prompily into a wiry little mass about a foot across, which never 
ceases producing its flowers of strong cold lilac from spring right 
on into the winter, unperturbed by frost or snow or rain. 
E. longifolium (H. australe, Gay) has something of the habit of 
E. linifolium, but is rather more erect, and with flowers smaller than 
in H. dubium, but of much brighter yellow. It is the larger type of 
which EH. helveticum is the more mountainy development. General in 
the Alps; note that in this the narrow, grey-green leaves continue 
up the stems, which will usually be about a foot high. 
E. mutabile is an attractive beauty, forming into grey cushions of 
oblong spoon-shaped stalked leaves with very fine and frail flopping 
stems set with foliage, and not more than 2 or 3 inches long, ending 
in a head of some two to five good-sized blossoms, which vary from 
citron to violet. (from the high screes of Lassiti in Crete.) 
E. nivale (EL. radicatum, Rydb.) grows only about 3 inches or half 
a foot, sending up many stems from a centralt uft of green and narrow 
foliage. The flowers are handsome, nearly an inch across. (Lower 
alpine regions of Colorado.) 
E. ochroleucum is the younger and less correct name of E. dubium, 
Suter. This is a quite well-known, useful thing, forming large low 
loose cushions of grey-green narrowish-leaved rosettes and shoots, 
sending up spikes of pale lemon-yellow almost all through the summer, 
sweet-scented, and passing into straw-colour as they fade. The 
species is not uncommon throughout the Alps, and, though not choice, 
is useful for a rough sunny place where big procumbent masses of 
leaf and flowers are wanted. 
E. odoratum (E. carniolicum) is a fragrant biennial, with large 
golden blossoms on erect stems above a rosette of toothed green 
leaves. 
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