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^ inch across, white, 

 disk yellow. 



Pastures and d6bris 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-florets numerous 

 and narrow. 



Woods and mountain pastures. May, June. 



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

 Pjrrenees, Central and Northern France, Spain, Itcdy, Central 

 Europe. British. 



Doronicum cordifolium Stemb. (D. cordatum Schultz.) 



Stem i^i 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, 



