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of rather fat-faced flowers of pale pink, abounding in all hard, 
hot, and stony places at low elevations throughout South Kansu 
and up the Tibetan border. It loves river-shingles and sun- 
baked stony fields, but never affects the woodland. 
Anemone sp. (F 481). — This is sent on the chance of its being a 
Narcissiflora- Anemone which was seen in abundance, just emerging 
on the southern face of Chago-ling on May 6, in the alpine turf 
of the pass, near its crest. This seed was collected from specimens 
of evidently kindred blood, in similar situations high up in the 
Alps of the Min S'an ; the only lingering flower, however, in 
August, looked poor and ugly. But this may merely have been 
that it had hung on for so long, declining to drop. 
Aquilegia sp. (F 280). — Quite different from A. ecalcarata as we 
grow it from Japanese seed, this should be no other species. 
It abounds in the subalpine river-shingles and coppice of the 
Kansu-Tibet mountain regions — a dim little quaint dangler of 
rarest and most elfin charm, with showers of small plum-coloured 
Columbines in June. 
Arisaema. — Of these great Aroids, two abound in the rich or stony 
woodland places of the Siku-Satanee Alps. F 283 has three big 
leaflets, and makes an impressive sight in deep and sheltered 
woodland places, while F 420 has a more elaborate leaf-frill, and 
the spathe of scarlet fruit is dazzling in the October woodland. 
Neither, of course, is really choice or specially attractive, but 
impressive in the right place. 
Aruncus sp. (F 386). — This is a superb thing, precisely replacing 
Spiraea Aruncus in the alpine copse-fringes, dingles, and hedge- 
rows in the Satanee Alps. It is, however, of much slenderer 
growth, developing only two or three stems from the crown, and 
the blossom panicles, opulent and arching, leave all efforts of 
S. Aruncus far behind, attaining often to a generous yard in 
length and even more. 
Asparagus. — There is a little thorny, starry mass from the hot, dry 
hills about Siku &c. ; and there is another, like small sprigs of 
A. officinalis stuck into the ground. Only the former can as 
yet be distributed, and neither is important ; the latter I only 
once saw, understudding the scant coppice on the rough banks 
above the South River (the Nan Ho). 
Aster kansuensis (F 131). — A small single-flowered high-alpine Aster, 
which runs happily about in the topmost screes of Thundercrown, 
with stems of 2-3 inches and gold-eyed purple daisies. The 
first lot sent under this number covers the far more beautiful and 
important F 226 — a treasure of the same habits and tastes, 
but with much larger blossoms, occurring on the highest shingle- 
crests of the main Min S'an. 
Aster oreophilus (F 156) occurs on level and very stony lawns of 
scant turf just above Siku, in the debouchure of the gorges 
(and ascending to about 8,000 feet in crevices of hot rock-slopes). 
