GUNNERA. 
G. cordifolia, which makes flat lawns and carpets of neat, dark, ever- 
green rosettes, almost concealed in June by the number of its nearly 
stemless fluffets. It is especially beautiful as a harmonising mist 
in that tissued carpet of the higher alps, where it supplies a neutral 
ground of softest blue-grey haze, for the golden crashes of Erysimum 
and Potentilla, the restless universal dance of the mountain-pansies 
in every shade from creamy-white to purple, and the flaring blues here 
and there of Gentiana verna, with the dropped indigo trumpets of 
G. latifolia among them in tones of sudden darkness. These are the 
uses of the plant in the garden—to accompany others, and supply 
an obbligato to Gentians and Erysimum on light and sunny slopes. 
Its twin beauty, however, G. stygia (which differs from it in having 
larger leaves, yet shorter stems, and branches very frail indeed and 
not woody), is far too rare at present, even in its own home on Chelmos, 
to be thus easily prescribed for in the garden, and used as a nurse ; nor 
must we so outrage the equally rare G. spinosa from the limestone 
crevices of Spain, which is smooth and prostrate and spiny, with rosettes 
of toothed, oblong, hairless leaves. There are many depths of colour 
among the different forms and species, and of all Globularias albinoes 
also. Even smaller and neater than these last are the livelier-beautied 
G. bellidifolia and G. incanescens, of which this latter has especially 
charming grey-blue foliage, while G. nana is the smallest of all, hardly 
more than an inch high at the most. These three, being so minute and 
lovely, will be welcome in much choicer places than those of G. cordi- 
folia, and it must be remembered that all are lovers of sun and 
drought and light limy soil in a specially intense degree, so that ill- 
drained richness and damps make them as tender as Perilla. 
Gnaphalium.—Hardly any of these are worth trying, but G. 
Traversii, from the Alps in the South Island of New Zealand, is a dwarf 
neat thing, white with wool and about 3 or 4 inches high. 
Goebeimia alopecuroeides (Sophora Jauberti) is a 
feather-leaved pea-flower of some 2 feet high or less, for a hot, dry 
place, with heads of white blossom in summer. 
Goodenia (Sellera) repens is a rare little Tasmanian for 
a very sheltered warm spot in cool moist soil, where it runs along with 
ground-hugging narrow foliage, and lonely short-spurred white flowers 
that go blue at the tips. 
Grindelia.—No species of this Composite family is valuable: its 
members are like coarse and inferior small Inulas. 
Gunnera.—While the great Gunneras have their places beside the 
water, there are a number of small Gunneras that are as tiny and 
neat as their brothers are vast and tropical. Of such are GG. monoica, 
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