LEUCELENE ERICOEIDES. 
race, is an 8-inch Crucifer, with spikes of white blossom in spring, 
adapted for special enthusiasts in sunny places. Seed. 
Leptarrhenas are worthless dowds. 
Leptinella (or Cotula) has already given us one devastating 
carpet-plant in C. squalida. There remain, however, many other species, 
all of the same countries, charms, and uses; L. coronopifolia being, 
however, taller and therefore less admissible, seeing that all the species 
are valued for dwarf habit and leaves alone, the flowers being either 
feeble or frightful; L. atrata, of greyish-green ; L. millefoliwm, very 
feathery-fine, pale-green and aromatic, with lax leathery leaves, some- 
times as silvery as Yarrow or Gooseweed ; L. Mamatoto, quite minute, 
a mat of soft silk ; LD. scariosa and L. lanata, like thickly woolly carpets 
ot Chrysanthemum alpinum, but with hideous, fat, rayless flower-heads ; 
and L. propinqua, standing between L. scariosa and L. plumosa. 
Leptocédon gracilis is a climbing plant of Lachen, close 
akin to Codonopsis, with tubular curved bells of blue, swollen at 
the top. 
Lesquerella is almost the same thing as Vesicaria, which is 
almost the same thing as Alyssum. All the species make very neat 
tuffets of very neat rosettes, may be raised from seed, grow readily 
in any light, open ground, and have spikes of yellow flowers in spring. 
L. condensata is a mass of peculiar density, the stems being no longer 
than the leaves; L. alpina is a trifle more lax, and the stems emerge 
further from the tuft; LD. Engelmannit (L. pruinosa, Greene, ovata, 
ovalifolia) is together bigger, with oval silvered foliage, stems of 
6 inches or a foot, and flowers about an inch across. L. Kingit is pros- 
trate, with hairy rosettes of oval leaves. (All these from the North- 
Western States of America.) 
Leucanthémum always hovers on the verge of being Chrysan- 
themum, so that any described species not found under the one heading 
stands an excellent chance of being discovered under the other, unless 
it has succeeded in escaping into the shelter of Pyrethrum. L. Gmelini 
and sibiricum are species quite close to each other—Chrysanthemums 
of branching habit, the latter lying down and only rising up at the 
ends of the shoots, while the former is fluffy-woolly at first, and then 
becomes smooth. JL. arcticum, on the other hand, is wholly smooth, 
and, as sent out, has large fat foliage like that of some mossy Saxifrage ; 
it is the duty of this to carry one ox-eye to each stem of some 5 inches. 
Culture, &c., as for the alpine Chrysanthemums. JZ. montanum is 
indeed now reckoned C. montanum, q.v. 
Leuceléné ericocides is Aster ericaefolius, a dry-ground 
American of some 3 to 7 inches, hoary and soft and branching bushily, 
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