238 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 



Ox-eye, and carried on stems about three or four inches 

 from the ground. Lapponicum and jiipponicum are very 

 close cousins, even if not actually brother-forms of the 

 same Alpine and high-Arctic species. Chrysanthemum 

 Zawadskyi is another bog-plant of easy culture — ^rather 

 taller than alpinum, rising to five or six inches, with 

 ferny foliage and stocky, stolid flowers, whose white 

 is tinged with soft pink. As for Chrysanthemum 

 Tchihatchewi, this must go far, far from the bog, a 

 ramping, ferny carpeter, making wide mats over the 

 driest, rubbliest places. Its beauty is its foliage, its 

 recommendation its violently robust habit, and its love 

 of hopeless, worthless, dry places where nothing else will 

 grow; its flowers, on five-inch stems, are rather small 

 dull daisies, white, with greenish-yellow eyes. Most 

 august of the family, of course, is Chrysanthemum 

 indicum, the parent of a priceless garden race; but 

 Chrysanthemum indicum has no other claim to a place, 

 for it is a tall, leafy, gawky weed, with heads of minute, 

 uninteresting flowers. 



For the very choicest corners of the bog, in fine, damp 

 shingle, very rough and fiercely drained, should go some 

 of the marsh Saxifrages — our own rare Hirculus, in its 

 variety major ; its Arctic cousin jlagellaris — if you can 

 get hold of it ; androsacea, if you think its small flowers 

 of dullish milk-white are worth the trouble. Stellaris is 

 so easy that you can put it in any very wet place ; so is 

 rotundifolia from the woods below ; biflora, on the other 

 hand, lovely frail trailer with its great crimson-purple 

 flowers, this, although luxuriating in the wet grey 

 glacier-mud when at home, is more difficult to please 

 when out on a visit — alas ! as a rule, not sojourning long 

 in one stay despite the best attention. It requires very 

 careful treatment in the cool, well-drained rock- work. As 

 for aeizoeides, this is quite a rampant grower, and may 



