126 ALPINE PLANTS 
The flowers and stalks are thickly clothed with soft 
silky hairs, which glisten in the morning sun, which, by 
the way, the plant enjoys rather than eternal shade. After 
the flowers have passed, the seed heads develop a remark- 
able beauty. The seeds should be sown as soon as ripe, 
when they will germinate freely. A. patens is an American 
plant that resembles our pasque flower, and A. pratensis 
is like a smaller edition of the plant. A. sylvestris, the 
‘“‘snowdrop anemone,’ and its double form, are two 
that should not be overlooked, and among the smallest 
but immensely pleasing is A. vernalis. It has flowers 
of unique colouring, which has aptly been described as 
opalescent, the glossy silky hairs that clothe the blossoms 
and stalks emphasizing the apparent iridescence of the 
colour. 
ANTIRRHINUM.—Quite apart from the increasingly popular 
named varieties of Antirrhinum majus, we have natural 
species of extreme beauty, and of a character that pecu- 
liarly fits them for trailing over rock boulders, or down 
the face of a rugged wall garden. A. asarina is very 
interesting, looking most unlike an antirrhinum until its 
delicate lemon blossoms appear. The foliage is almost 
heart shaped, but with scalloped edges. It is of a russet 
shade, and covered with short soft hairs. The stems 
trail and the flowers are borne in pairs at the axils of the 
leaves. In exposed localities the plants sometimes suffer 
in winter, and may with advantage be given the shelter 
of a sheet of glass. 
A. glutinosum has slender, twiggy stems, the plants 
gradually developing into a small bush. The foliage is 
