GUTIERREZIA EUTHAMIAE. 
magellanica, prorepens, microcarpa, flavida, densiflora, dentata, arenaria, 
and Hamiltoni—tidy ramping carpets for a rather moist sheltered 
level. They have, however, no attraction apart from the covering 
of foliage with which they deck bare ground in summer, but which 
they put away in winter, leaving it barer then ever. 
Gutierrezia Euthamiae is a small North-American bush of 
some 10 inches or so, beset with small Composite yellow flowers in late 
summer. It makes no powerful appeal. 
Gymnolomia multiflora, a Mexican immeritorious Composite 
of tender and almost annual habit. 
Gypsophila, a race of greatest value for the rocks, where its 
members heartily thrive in any open and sunny place in very deep 
soil (for they have enormous roots), gratifying the whole summer with 
a never-ceasing shower of pink or white stars. Many, too, are the 
taller, stouter sorts, after the fashion of G. paniculata ; but these are 
best avoided, with that one exception, for many of them are coarse 
and leafy things of no charm, such as ugly G. Rokejeka. All of them seed 
freely, and all may be multiplied by cuttings, either of shoots or of 
roots. The following list contains such of the species as are best 
fitted in habit for the rock-garden : 
G. alpigena declares with truth that it is born on the Alps, where 
it attains a stature of 4 inches or so, delicately spraying this way and 
that with blossoms of rose and white. 
G. aretioeides is most especially to be desired. In the high Alps of 
Persia, as for instance in the cliffs of Demavend, it forms masses 
flat and hard and dense, resembling those of Silene exscapa, but 
infinitely more beautiful when the whole cushion is closely starred 
with pearl-pale flowers. 
G. cerastioeides is creeping, dwarf, and hairy, forming into cosy neat 
tufts, unlike one’s ideas of the race, however, in the green fatness of 
the foliage, no less than in the size and amplitude of its solid, stolid 
white blossoms, with veins of purple, that appear in profusion over 
the clump of 2 or 3 inches (or less)—a charming easy-going species 
from the mid-alpine regions of Kashmir and Sikkim. 
G. erinacea makes a tight twisted woody bush of five inches or s0, 
very grey, with sharp fine leaves like fat needles, and then loose erupt- 
ing sprays of white flowers. (Alps of Cabul.) (G@. acerosa has the 
same habit, but differs for the worse in having tight-headed flower- 
clusters.) 
G. frankenioeides may perhaps be a variety or sub-species of G. 
libanotica, but is especially neat and dwarf upon the ground, with rosy 
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