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calcareous pasturage. It grows, as so many Alpine 

 plants do, in tufts, and throwing up numerous 

 globose heads of blossom, delicate alike in form 

 and in colour. The leaves are rather curious in 

 form, being in general outline battledore-shaped, 

 but terminating in three minute teeth. 



We have already commended our common rag- 

 wort as a rock-garden acquisition, and we give on 

 Plates XLIX. and L. two Continental species of 

 the same genus, the Senecio Doronicum, and the 

 S. aurantiacus. Their horticultural value speaks 

 for itself. Almost all the composites, from the most 

 gigantic sunflowers to the lowliest of daisies, 'are 

 effective, and these certainly are of the number. 



While we can well imagine that some of our 

 readers may feel surprise at some of the lowly 

 herbs " really you know, mere weeds ! " we com- 

 mend to their regard, they may be equally prepared 

 to fall foul of us for our grievous omissions. Such 

 matters must necessarily be, to a great extent, a 

 matter of personal feeling, but to the latter charge, 

 the leaving out of desirable things, we can plead 

 that space in one's garden and in one's book are 

 alike limited. It would be very natural that the 

 plant-lover who revels in some gorgeous blossom, 

 some lowly woodland flower, that to him appears 

 incomparable should resent its absolute exclusion 

 from our pages, but our ambition is by no means to 

 make an exhaustive catalogue. The whole point of 



