MICHAUXIA. 
M. tibetica shrinks before the blasts and snows of the Karakorum, 
at some 14,000 to 16,000 feet. It isa little species, 2 or 3 inches high, 
with quite minute stalked leaves almost all at the base, and roughish ; 
the clumps then send up stems of 2 or 3 inches that unfold into sprays 
of funnel-shaped flowers. 
M. Tweedyi is only about half a foot in stem at the most, and the 
stems are rather weak at their base, emerging from a loose tuft of 
oblong elliptic leaves, dark-green and microscopically rough with warts 
on the upper surface, carried each on a long fine foot-stalk; the blossoms 
are borne in delicate wire-strung showers, and are of deep sapphire- 
blue. (From the high alps of Wyoming, &c.) 
M. viridis comes also from the high alps of Wyoming, where 
amid the stones and screes its large woody stock goes plunging, and 
sends up weak flopping stems, a foot or 18 inches long, from tufts of 
bristlish and bright-green leaves, with flowers very much as in the last. 
Michauxia.—These are gorgeous monocarpic Campanulads from 
the Levant, that hate excessive damp and should be cultivated in rich 
but very stony soil, with perfect drainage and plenty of limestone in a 
sunny place, sheltered from behind by shrubs, and for preference on 
a slope that will facilitate the departure of unnecessary water. They 
bloom in high summer of their second or third year, set abundant 
seed, and die. 
M. campanuloeides, from the dry rocky places in the lower mountain 
region of Cappadocia, makes first a great rosette of hairy deep-lobed 
foliage outstretched upon the ground, and then in time sends up a 
stem of more than a yard high, gracefully branching towards the top, 
and along each branch hanging most delicately out a peal of white 
flowers like small Martagon lilies. The species figured in the Bot. Mag., 
t. 3128, under this name is M. laevigata, from the hills of Armenia and 
Kurdistan, which differs in having broader leaves, a smooth stem, and 
flowers carried in a spike, not in an airy pyramid. 
M. Tchihatchewii is worth the pains of pronouncing its name to 
procure, for it is a most noble species, wholly different from WM. campanu- 
loeides. It branches only at the very base, sending out a few stiff arms, 
but the central stem shoots starkly upward for a couple of yards or so, 
and this (and all the branches down below) blazes solidly out into one 
dense column of wide blue flowers, like an eight-lobed Campanula 
pyramidalis of far ampler stature and finer blossom, that has learned 
the trick of opening them all at once, packed into an unbroken yet 
not squashed or crowded mass along the stalwart upstanding spire, 
and no less stalwart branches far below, that curve stiffly outward 
and upward from the base. 
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