100 ALPINE PLANTS 
spring, when the young growths may be taken from the 
base when about an inch high. 
OxaLis.—Daintily pretty foliage, like five-lobed clover 
leaves on a refined scale, and sweetly pretty little cupped 
flowers characterize in a general way the ‘‘ Wood Sorrel,” 
as the members of the genus Oxalis are termed. For the 
most part they are quite easily grown plants, liking cool 
and shady places, but O. enneaphylla, a totally distinct 
plant with nine-lobed, glaucous, 
almost silvery leaves and large 
pure white flowers which are 
finely veined, is a gem that de- 
serves a little special attention in 
the way of providing a pocket of 
sandy soil with good leaf mould, 
situated in a position open to 
morning sun, but shaded from the 
Pe. ee ee ae fierce heat of noon. The plant 
Oxatis ENNEAPHYI1a, also Tequires watching fo keep Slims 
and woodlice at a distance. O. 
acetosella is a native plant that luxuriates in the leafy 
soil under deciduous trees. It has white flowers veined 
with purple, but its variety rosea is pink. O. deppei, a 
tuberous-rooted plant, throws up stout stems of large 
flowers which are of a peculiar and pleasing shade of 
colour, which might be termed rosy terra-cotta. 
PAPAVER.—Of poppies there are two species that well 
might grace every rockery that has at least a corner that 
reaches the sunlight, for Papaver alpinum, and P. nudi- 
caule, known as the Iceland poppy, never fail to receive 

