LEUCOCRINUM MONTANUM. 
and fine of leaf, with flowers of white or pink on branchlets delicate 
as threads. 
Leucocrinum meontanum (ithe White Lily of the Mountains) is a 
common beauty in the Central Rockies, but not by any means frequent 
with us. It makes a tuft of soft, narrow leaves, and then in early 
summer prepares an umbel underground in such a way that each large, 
spreading, narrow-tubed star, sweetly scented and in whites that vary 
to blue, seems springing by itself from amid the tuft on a stem of 
3or4inches. It is a most entrancing species, worth any comfort that 
its fleshy roots exact. It should be grown in fullest sun, in a sheltered 
and specially well-drained bank, in light, rich, and especially sandy 
warm soil of ample depth; and the apple of the eye should not be 
more cherished. 
Leucocyclus formosus (or Anacyclus: but these are value- 
less little annuals) is a pretty woolly-white Composite for a warm, dry 
bank in poorish soil; with foliage so finely feathered and hoary and 
curled as to suggest a Santolina; the single handsome white Mar- 
guerites are borne freely on stems of some 8 inches or more throughout 
the later summer. (Cilician Taurus, especially above the lead-mines.) 
Leucoion.—Too delicate for most gardens is exquisite thread- 
frail LD. autwmnale (Acis autumnalis) from Gibraltar, with dainty 
roseate bells in autumn on stems of 2 or 3 inches. It may, however, 
be grown well in warm, sandy soil in the south. But by far the best 
of all is L. carpaticum, which sends up ample, cosy, wide cups of pure 
white, tipped with gold in earliest spring, hanging from stout stems of 
3 or 4 inches, and incomparably more cheerful than those chilly Snow- 
drops, more warm and brilliant in its white, set off by that golden 
tip to each segment, more hearty in the shape of its flower, and more 
luxuriant in the bright-green gloss of its broad foliage. It may be 
a form of L. vernum, but is far superior, if the true plant can be got ; 
and others in the same line of charm and dwarf stature are L. tricho- 
phyllum, L. hiemale, and the very rare L. nicaeense from Eza. 
Leuzea conifera is not a thing of high charm. It is like an 
untidy Centaurea from 2 inches to a foot high, with feathered foliage, 
silvery below, and almost unbranched stems that bear big, egg-shaped 
flower-heads, in summer, of a purplish-lilac tone. Seed. (From 
West Europe, and fitted for a dry, rocky, poor place in the sun.) 
L. rhaponticoeides is much handsomer, taking the Artichoke for 
its model, and growing some 3 or 5 feet high, with ample purpled heads, 
and splendid, ample feathered foliage of brilliant green, with white 
on the reverse. 
Lewisia, a race of quite hardy plants, some of them coming from 
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