CARDUNCELLUS PINNATUS. 



SUPPLEMENT. CERATOSTIGMA POLHILLI. 943 



rough to the touch from stiff hairs and 

 bearing short terminal racemes of flowers 

 each about half an inch in diameter, 

 resembling in form that of Borage, pink- 

 ish when first expanded but changing 

 to blue. It is a neat border plant, but 

 can hardly be termed a showy plant. 

 The seeds are remarkable for their large 

 size, being of flattened, roundish form 

 nearly half an inch across and studded 

 along the margin with a double row of 

 minute whitish tubercules. 



CAEDUNCELLUS PINNATUS. A 

 pretty little alpine plant of the Thistle 

 order, with finely-cut leaves and attractive 

 heads of lilac flowers like a Cornflower. 

 If in strong or rich soils it spreads from 

 the root and becomes rank, but in light 

 dry soils and full sun it makes neat tufts 

 of about 8 in., hardy, and not troublesome. 

 Division. Southern Europe. 



CASSINIA FULVIDA. A distinct- 

 looking, half-shrubby plant, of a yellow- 

 ish hue. Hardy, and easily grown over 

 a large area of our country, but best 

 in warm and open soils. It is more 

 effective in groups than when planted 

 in the usual dotting way. It is ever- 

 green, and carries its colour through- 

 out the year. Best suited for bold rock 

 gardening, or a place among dwarf 

 shrubs. A native of New Zealand, it is 

 often known in gardens as Diplopappus 

 chrysophyllus. 



CASTANOPSIS CHRYSOPHYLLA 

 (Golden Chestnut}. A beautiful evergreen 

 tree of the Pacific coast of N. America, 

 coming between the Oaks and the Chest- 

 nuts. In moist valleys near the sea 

 the finest trees reach a height of 150 

 ft., but it is often only alow shrub on the 

 mountain sides. At a little distance these 

 low densely-branched little trees look like 

 a Bay or a Holly Oak, only the leaf is 

 smaller and narrower, with a powdery 

 golden under-surface of beautiful effect 

 when stirred by wind. It blooms in Sep- 

 tember and ripens its fruits, like tiny 

 sweet-chestnuts, in the succeeding autumn. 

 Though borne freely upon little plants 

 only 2 ft. high, they seldom reach perfec- 

 tion in this country. The plant is hardy 

 even in the north of Scotland, and does 

 well about Edinburgh and in sheltered 

 parts of the west country, thriving in good 

 heavy soil but growing very slowly, so that 

 it must never be put near greedy shrubs 

 that would outgrow and smother it. Being 

 very averse to removal, it is mostly planted 

 from pots. The 'hardiest form of all is 

 minor, from the mountain tops of Cali- 

 fornia a pretty little shrub for raised 

 banks in the rock-garden. 



CELMISIA. Charming plants from 

 New Zealand, where they fill the moun- 

 tain meadows with cushions of downy 

 leaves covered with glistening daisy-like 

 flowers. There are upwards of thirty 

 kinds, differing more in leaf than in 

 their flowers, which are mostly white, 

 though sometimes purple and very vari- 

 able in size. They grow in varied situa- 

 tions, some in swamps, some in dry 

 shingly places, others on moist river- 

 banks or the gritty mountain side. To 

 succeed with them we need therefore to 

 know just how each grows in its own 

 country, and things are made more 

 difficult by the fact that they are not 

 fully hardy with us, and seem to dislike 

 the moisture that gathers on their hairy 

 leaves and stems in a wet season. The 

 few kinds that have been introduced have 

 never become common, though they may 

 be seen doing well here and there, and 

 are then exceedingly beautiful. , The fol- 

 lowing are in cultivation : 



C. coriacea, a hardy little kind not 

 difficult to grow, and the largest in its 

 flowers, I ^ to 3 in. across, pure white 

 with a yellow centre, and borne on stout 

 stems a foot long. The leaves are like 

 those of a small Yucca, 10 to 18 in. 

 long, covered with cottony threads and 

 dense white down. The plant needs a 

 sunny well-drained place, and should be 

 well watered in summer. 



C. Haastii. A plant of strong growth, 

 with large leaves similar to, but less 

 woolly than those just described, the 

 flowers, i^ to 2^ in. across, coming upon 

 short sturdy stems. 



C. Lindsay! forms dense tufts of leaves 

 3 to 6 in. long, very white on the under- 

 side, and with white flowers i to 2 in. 

 across on stems of 6 in. 



C. Monroe! is also hardy, growing well 

 near the sea in North Wales. Its leaves 

 are silver-grey with down, almost sword- 

 shaped, and very white beneath. The 

 pure white, flowers are 2 in. across, 

 coming in early summer and lasting for 

 a considerable time. 



C. ramulosa is a very distinct and 

 pretty plant, its small short leaves forming 

 cushions completely covered with small 

 white flowers on short stems. Among 

 the stones of a rock-garden nothing could 

 be more charming. 



C. spectabilis. In leaf, flowers, and 

 manner of growth, this comes near C. 

 Monroet, but the flower-stems are shorter, 

 and the narrow ray-florets more or less 

 tipped with violet. 



CEKATOSTIGMA POLHILLI. -A 

 pretty creeping shrub from a great heigh 



