HUGUENINIA TANACETIFOLIA. 
while H. tomentosum has flowers more sessile, and hoary foliage closely 
packed in overlapping rows. Their needs are an open, light and peaty 
soil, most perfectly drained and in full sun. 
Hugueninia tanacetifolia (or Sisymbrium pinnatifidum) 
is a really beautiful great Crucifer, of very rare occurrence in the Swiss 
Alps (and only on their fringe in the Valais), but, ike nearly everything 
else of charm, becoming less unusual as soon as you have come South 
and East of that country of hotels. On the Mont Cenis, for instance, 
it fills many of those curious pot-holes among the gypsum dunes with 
the fine and stalwart elegance of its truly Tansy-like leafage, from 
which the summer calls up a stem of 3 feet or so, lacy with the same 
fine ample foliage, and ending in flattened wide showers of blossom, 
which, though each flower by itself is small, are borne in such a mass 
of golden-yellow that their volume produces a rare effect of graceful 
' magnificence. In the garden this splendid plant is never seen ; where 
its beauty deserves to be inevitable and where, well planted in some . 
shady corner out of the way in cool and rather damp well-drained soil, 
it will also prove immortal ; not to mention that the seed is abundant 
every season. 
Hulsea algida, a 4-inch hairy Composite of aromatic fragrance, 
from California, with compressed feathered leaves at the base and 
lonely little yellow flower-heads on stems of 6 or 7 inches ; not start- 
lingly attractive, but adapted at will to warm dry corners. 
Hutchinsia alpina may be very common, but it is none the 
less precious, filling any cool bank with its mats of feathered dark 
small foliage, animated in May, and for some months onward, with 
little spikes of brilliantly pure-white cruciferous flowers, for that race 
astonishingly refined and bright and charming—besides being of the 
highest value as cover for Crocus or fine Daffodil. It is an abundant 
species in the high Alps, but on the primary formations its place is taken 
by H. brevicaulis, which may always be known, not only by the rock 
it grows on, but also because the plant itself is so much smaller and 
tighter, with a shorter, denser, and flattened spike of flower. JH. 
Auerswaldit, from Spain, has none but small botanical differences, and 
all are sometimes found lurking under the disguise of Noccaea. 
Hyacinthus, the name of the beautiful boy long since im- 
mortally dead in the love of a god, has gone to crown a race no less 
beloved by Apollo than once was Hyacinth the Beautiful. Let all 
of this race then, for the sake of that memory, have a place full forward 
in his beams, set in soil both deep and rich and light enough for the 
soul of Hyacinth each year to rise again untrammelled from the safe 
coffin of his bulb. Of this race there are many children, but the head 
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