GERANIUM. 
ceedingly unsatisfactory and odious to collect in the Alps, as a rule, 
owing to its habit of running threadily about in the grass; unless, 
indeed, a favoured spot can be found, where it tends more to form 
clumps, as it does indeed, by the million, in the West of Ireland, among 
the rank herbage of Ladies’ Tresses, Ladies’ Bedstraw, Ladies’ Fingers, 
and the whole botanical department of a lady’s plenishing. But in 
the alps of Teesdale it is usually thin and weazen in habit, with 
singleton rosettes. This species is the most widespread of the mountain- 
section, stretching from England and Ireland, through all the alpine 
chains of Europe, far away into the North and West of Asia, hybridising 
here and there with others of the group, as with G. bavarica below the 
Col de Clapier, but never, apparently, contracting, any more than any 
other of the star-gentians, any alliance with the trumpeters. Like 
G. bavarica and G. Gentianella, too, it has a pleasant habit in the Alps, 
as in the garden, of sending up a lovely bloom or two in the autumn. 
G. villosa (G. ochroleuca, Froel.) is of no such value, being a stout 
and leafy American plant, with open flowers of greenish white, veined 
with green, and striped with lilac. 
G. vulgaris. See under G. « acaulis.” 
G. Walujewt is lumping and gollopshious as its name—a leafy 
coarse Siberian of 10 inches, with clustered small stars of pallid 
bluish tone in late summer. 
G. Weschniakowit, again, dispenses us from calling upon its name 
in loving tones. For who will coo upon G. Weschniakoww, and murmur 
the music of its syllables to the moon, when they learn that it is even 
larger and leafier than the last, with flowers of a similar unattractive- 
ness, produced in autumn ? 
Geranium.—lIt is not possible here to enter the vast tangle of the 
bigger Geraniums ; the race is one of bewildering magnitude in the 
North and the South, and the East and the West, climbing often from 
the lower to the upper alpine regions, and continuing down the long 
line of the Andes along the crests, in a race of minute and lovely 
dwarfs. Of larger species, valuable in border and wild garden, there 
is no end, either in the Old World or the New; and, heavy though 
be the need of guidance among the false names and synonyms of these 
in catalogues, they are not so germane to our rock-garden as to leave 
us time (as I had hoped) to linger with them, but we must at once pass 
on to the smaller and more appropriate species, all of which bloom 
through summer into autumn, can easily be raised from seed, and are 
of the easiest cultivation in full sun and light open soil. 
G. aconitifolium is the correct name of G. rivulare. 
G. alpicola beckons our hopes to the high alps of Guatemala, where 
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