HAASTIA. 
G. serpylloeides has all the neat perfectly prostrate habit of a little 
Thyme, but the flowers with which it is jewelled are large and pink 
as those of G. repens, making a rare carpet of beauty. 
G. Stevent has no great merit, for it is in the same line as G. repens : 
from the screes of Georgia, but with smaller stars of about half the 
size, and a taller habit that can attain to a foot or more. 
G. x Suendermannii is a hybrid between G. repens and G. cerastioeides 
—a really valuable addition to our gardens, being a stronger, lower- 
growing plant than G. monstrosa, and conspicuously free of large ample 
white flowers even among the rest of its prodigally-blooming kin. 
G. tenuifolia lives in the upper alpine rocks of Caucasus, where it 
makes a stout thick branching rhizome, emitting tufts of smooth 
rosetted foliage, and then stems of 3 or 4 inches waving sprays of rose- 
pink blossoms larger than those of G. repens. 
G. transylvanica is the plant often offered as Banffya petraea. 
Under either name it has no particular or special merit, being a rock 
Gypsophila with loose and airy galaxies of white stars. 
G. venusta fills the vineyards of Syria with profusion of extra-large 
pink flowers with purple at their base. In growth, however, it is of 
rather taller habit than these last. 
G. violacea belongs to Eastern Siberia, where it makes cushions of 
hairless foliage which emit a number of branching leafy stems carrying 
each a scanty burden of violet stars. 
G. Wiedemannii is a diminished version of G. venusta. 
H 
Haastia is the Vegetable Sheep of New Zealand, forming humped 
rolling masses of minute foliage so closely packed as to seem one solid 
dome or mound, like dotted sleeping sheep up and down the hills. As 
it ascends to alpine elevations it might be made to prove hardy, if 
worth the trouble. 
Haberlea rhodopensis is twin-sister of Ramondia, for any 
shady cool nook or crevice in well-drained rich leafy soil—there forming 
annually increasing rosettes of hairy toothed leaves, dark and soft 
and comfortable, of stiffest dusky flannel, which profusely emit in 
early summer their sprays of small lilac-lavender Streptocarpus or 
Gloxinia-flowers. There is a most beautiful albino, too, H. rh. 
virginalis ; and H. Ferdinandi-Coburgi seems no more (? H. Austinit) 
than a specially fine form of the type, which varies greatly in size of 
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