MATTIA. 
much as a foot high, densely leafy at the base; while the flowers 
are smaller than in the others, of a sad violet, tinging towards a mauve 
exceedingly subtle and modern. This sadness may be seen on the 
Simplon Road, about Binn, in the Cogne Valley, as well as round Susa 
and Termignon, to north and south of the Mont Cenis. 
Mattia (sometimes Cynoglossum and sometimes Rindera).— 
A valuable but hardly ever seen group of Borragineae, precious, like 
so many of their family, for hot dry places in hot dry soil, where they 
will rejoice the garden more or less perennially with bloom in later 
summer ; and may anyhow be kept re-stocked from seed. 
M. caespitosa makes a close and silvered tuft, high in the Alps of 
Armenia, as on Aslandagh at some 9000 to 10,000 feet. Then, from 
the cushion of narrow foliage, start the unbranched stems of a few 
inches, breaking in loose showers of starry blossom, pink and blue. 
M. graeca, from the highest rocks of all the Greek mountains, is 
just as silver-silky, but the stems attain 6 inches or so, and the flowers 
(ampler in outline and not so starry) are of rich purple. 
M. Schlumbergei is perhaps the finest, where all are brilliant pro- 
mises. It is, however, of the most grievous rarity, based on hardly 
more than the one specimen collected on the upper alps of Lebanon 
in 1872. Itisa close tuffet as before, but the leaves are much broader, 
oblong-spoon-shaped, while the flowers are carried in a loose shower 
on stems of 4 inches—brilliant purple bugles, opening into five wide 
deep lobes. M. Bungei is yet another of these tufts, from North-East 
Persia, with shallow-lobed blooms of red, and far protruded style ; 
in the granites of Turkestan lives WM. cyclodonta (Rindera), hairless, 
and 6 inches in the stem. 
M. umbellata, however, strikes out a line completely new. For this, 
from its tufts of abundant big long leaves, narrow and pointed and 
clad (like all the plant) in silky-greyness, sends up a number of tall 
leafy stems, 18 inches or 2 feet high, each of which bears a wide branch- 
ing head of many blossom-sprays curling outwards at the tips, and 
loaded with brown-crimson flowers in calyces of white wool. This it 
does from May to June, and isa plant of Southern Hungary, asking 
for a dry hot place with plenty of stone, and that (for a natural pre- 
ference) non-calcareous. 
Mazus.—aA race of small prostrate or quite low-growing Scrophu- 
lariads standing very close indeed to Mimulus, about some of which 
there has lately been some rather unnecessary confusion. All the 
species are tolerably hardy and easy of cultivation in a moist, warm, 
and sheltered place, not parched by the sun; all can be raised from 
seed, but even more copiously multiplied by division, in the case of 
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