THE ALPINE FLORA 



fiery red, rose is most ornamental for rocks, walls, 

 dry spots, sunny slopes, and flowers from June up to 

 winter. 



In the succeeding order, Capri foliacex, there is one 

 dainty plant whose wee loveliness endears it to alpinists, 

 who seek to gather it in the Engadine and in the valleys 

 of Saas, Anniviers, Turtman and Arolla, where it spreads 

 carpets of exquisite green. This is 'Linnxa borealis*. The 

 long, running stems ramble over the ground, bearing 

 rounded, opposite leaves, and throwing a multitude of 

 little scapes terminated by a pair of nodding bell-flowers, 

 white and rosy carmine within, sweet scented. It likes a 

 shady, damp, almost boggy corner in sandy peat. The 

 runners should be pegged down and topdressed with 

 leafmould to promote the formation of new rootlets. 

 Other showy members of the order are the coral-berried 

 elder (Sambucus racemosaj, Lonicera alpigena, L. cxrulea, 

 L. nigra, the three familiar Swiss mountain honey- 

 suckles. 



The typical plant of the "Dipsacex is the Teazle, but 

 for garden purposes its value consists in the Scabious, 

 which plant, however, is only sparingly represented on 

 high mountains. This genus is marked by a forked stem, 

 bearing opposite leaves ; the flowers are sessile or nearly 

 so, in small heads surrounded by an involucre of many 

 leaves ; the four (or five-lobed) corolla is funnel-shaped. 

 Somewhat similar but more coarse and massive is a 

 roughly haired plant found in the limestone Alps and 

 southern Jura, with large heads of yellow-ochre flowers 

 (Cephalaria alpina). It at once attracts attention by its 

 fine carriage; is easily cultivated and good for cutting, 

 but hardly in place in a choice garden, despite a boldly 

 ornamental aspect. 



