172 SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



Pastures, banks, and mountain slopes from the plains up to 

 7000 and rarely 8000 feet. June to August. 



Distribution. Europe, Russian Asia. Britain. 

 Chrysanthemum alpinum L. (Plate XXI.) 



The figure depicts a rather small-flowered specimen. Stem 

 2-6 inches high, with a single capitulum. Leaves mostly radical, 

 stalked, spathulate, pinnatifid, with 5-7 segments, toothed, the 

 uppermost linear, entire. Flower-heads about I J inch across, white, 

 disk yellow. 



Pastures and debris on the Alps, particularly on siliceous rocks. 

 July, August ; 5000-12,000 feet. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, 

 Pyrenees, Transylvania. 



Easily grown in a well-drained, southerly position, in a compost 

 of sand and loam. It should be top-dressed each spring. 



DORONICUM L. 



Root-leaves stalked or o ; stem-leaves amplexicaul. Capitula 

 solitary or in corymbs, rayed. Ray-flowers ligulate, usually 

 female ; disk-flowers with free branches of style ; receptacle 

 conicle. Fruit furrowed. Pappus-hairs rigid. 



The nomenclature of the Alpine species of Doronicum (or Aroni- 

 cum) appears much confused. 



Doronicum Pardalianches L. Leopard's-bane. 



Root-stock often woolly at the crown. Root-leaves broadly 

 ovate and deeply cordate at the base. Stem about 2 feet high, with 

 few ovate-lanceolate leaves, the lower ones broader, stalked 

 and embracing the stem in a broadly dilated base. Flower-heads 

 2-5 on long peduncles ; handsome. Yellow ray-Horets numerous 

 and narrow. 



Woods and mountain pastures. May, June. 



Distribution. Rare in Switzerland. Jura, Vosges, Cevennes, 

 Pyrenees, Central and Northern France, Spain, Italy, Central 

 Europe. British. 



Doronicum cordifolium Sternb. (D. cor datum Schultz.) 



Stem ij-2j feet high, erect, more or less covered with soft 

 hairs or nearly glabrous. Stem-leaves wavy at the margins or 

 toothed, sessile, lanceolate, acute, lower leaves cordate-ovate, 

 stalked, sharply-toothed, the cymes formed at the cordate base 

 broad and open. Flowers yellow. Capitula handsome, 2 inches 

 across. 



Mountain woods and shady Alpine and sub-alpine situations ; 

 3000-6500 feet ; local. June to August. 



Distribution. Carpathians, Eastern Alps (not in Switzerland), 

 Sudetic Mountains, 



