MECONOPSIS. 
grandis, much taller, with rather smaller violet-blue globes of the same 
build and poise. But WM. integrifolia is, alas! not (like M. grandis) a 
perennial. However, it seeds freely in England, even without the 
aid of man—a plant amenable to any fair cultivation in deep rich soil, 
not parched. In nature it abounds most especially where the turf is 
thinnest on the upper meadows of Yunnan, Szechuan, and the Tibetan 
border ; luxuriating, for instance, in light stony soil, gripped in the 
bitter cold of the Mekong-Salwen Divide, in hollows of melted snow 
and ground that is as mere snow-bog at flowering time as the hollows 
of Mont Cenis when the buds of Anemone Alpina come pushing. 
There is a variety of this, too, M. 7. Souliei, which may perhaps prove 
a separate species; it is in all parts less hairy, smaller and more 
graceful (for the habit of M. integrifolia is rather stumpy, and its 
stalks too fat) while the petals are less broad. See Appendix. 
M. lancifolia—A lower-habited plant in the group of WM. Delavayi, 
with tufts of very numerous radical leaves very much drawn out to a 
point at each end, hispidulous, and almost always wholly untoothed 
at the edge, about 3 to 6 inches long in all. The stem is some 8 inches 
high, bearing a loose pyramid of four-petalled ample flowers, nodding 
modestly in youth, and of a gorgeous satiny-violet with golden 
stamens. From the highlands of Central Asia—a most lovely but 
monocarpic species, to which it may be more convenient here to reduce 
two other Meconopsids that seem so closely related as not to be more 
than local forms. The first of these is J. Henrici, which stands to this 
very much as MW. horridula to M. racemosa. That is to say, instead 
of a stem branching into a fountain of flowers, it has practically no 
stem at all, but each bloom seems to spring straight from the base 
on a stalk of itsown. They are about twice the size of MW. lancifolia’s, 
but of the same intense and lucent violet, nearly 4 inches across, and 
built not of four but of some six or eight widespread goodly petals, dis- 
tinctly clawed at the base. In conjunction with the larger flowers, 
it has much smaller foliage, only some 2 inches long or a little more, 
while the stems of the blossoms are about 6 inches. Occasionally there 
is a secondary bloom to a stem, thus suggesting more than ever the 
plant’s relationship with MV. lancifolia ; its degree of hairiness differs 
greatly, and sometimes it is even as horrid as M. horridula itself ; but 
the bristles are never hard or hostile. From the dry high lawns of 
Szechuan, and sometimes from between the rocks; it has its name 
from Prince Henri d’Orléans, who collected it by Tatsienlu, and is 
indeed responsible for all the recent Asiatics attributed to « Henry.” 
The second sub-species of M. lancifolia is M. primulina. This differs 
for the worse from its predecessors as far as the gardener is concerned, 
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