16+ SUB-ALPINE PLANTS 



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

 Erzgebirge, Vosges, Jura ; Pyrenees. 

 A handsome species and well worth cultivating. 



Cephalaria Schrader. 

 Cephalaria alpina Schrad. 



A hairy, robust plant, at least a yard high, with an ascending, 

 angular stem and pinnate leaves, with from 9-15 lanceolate leaflets, 

 serrated. Corolla pale yellow in a dense globular head. 



Rocky pastures in the Alps and sub-Alps up to 6000 feet ; very 

 local. June, July. 



Distribution. — Switzerland, Jura, and Western Alps of Savoy, 

 Dauphin^, Provence, and Piedmont. 



Kn AUTi A ^Coulter 

 Differs from Scabiosa in having the awns of the calyx deciduous. 



Knautia sylvatica Duby. 



A large, leafy herb, often 3 feet iri height, usually hairy, especially 

 at the base. Leaves lanceolate-eUiptic or lanceolate, entire or 

 toothed, not divided, glabrous, or furnished with long hairs, but 

 never velvety, bright green. Calyx with 8 teeth. Corolla usually 

 violet, rarely rose-purple, in hemispherical heads. Somewhat 

 polymorphic. 



Woods and meadows and shady places in the mountains, extend- 

 ing to the Alpine pastures. June to September. 



Distribution. — Central and Southern Europe. 

 Knautia longifolia Koch. 



Plant i-i J feet high, glabrous below, with a usually simple stem. 

 Leaves dark green, shining, glabrous, narrowly lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, entire or toothed. Flowers rose, in small hemispherical heads. 

 Involucral bracts oval-lanceolate, acute, almost as long as the 

 flowers. Calyx with sub-sessile limb, and linear, pointed teeth. 



Meadows and damp mountain pastures. June to September. 



Distribution. — Pyrenees, Alps, Jura, Vosges, Auvergne, Cevennes, 

 Central and Southern Europe. 



s COMPOSIT2E 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate or opposite leaves, without 

 stipules. Flowers or florets collected together into a head, sur- 

 rounded by an involucre, the whole appearing like a single flower. 

 The receptacle upon which the florets are inserted within the in- 

 volucre is either naked or bears chaffy scales and hairs between the 

 florets. In each floret the calyx is combined with the ovary, either 



