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little rill, it sends up enormous foliage of metallic dark tone, 
almost as large as in Petasites japonicus, and borne on stout . 
footstalks clothed in soft maroon plush of richest pile ; from this, 
in August, towers far above a huge stem of 6 feet, fat and thick, 
clothed in the same plush, and breaking almost simultaneously 
at the top into four or five erect-standing stiff branches, each of 
which is densely hung with closely crowded tassels of small, 
tasselly yellow flowers hanging on thread-fine pedicels. The 
flowers I believe to be as feeble as they are certainly small ; but 
their mass must be impressive, and their subsequent silver stars 
of seed are charming, and the stately imperious port of the plant, 
with its plushy empurpled stems and huge sombre foliage, is so 
impressive and splendid as to need no further enhancement from 
flower. A superb wet-bog species or for shingly water-sides, and 
the very beds of little streamy and stony pools themselves. 
Senecio sp. (F 353) is the poor cousin of the last, from Ardjeri beck- 
beds. It is slightly smaller, it lacks the purple plush, its foliage 
is of bright commonplace green — and altogether it is a feeble, 
inefficient imitation of F 299, in all points, missing all F 299^ 
essential points of splendour, but luxuriating in the same con 
ditions of running shallow water. 
Senecio sp. (F 437) is a spiked, divided-leaved species of 3-4 feet, 
very abundant in the lower coarse cool places of the alpine ranges, 
akin to 5. Przewalskyi, and rather coarse and weedy to tastes 
overfed of late with coarse and weedy Chinese Ragworts at 
enormous prices. 
Senecio sp. (F 438) I have not~seen. It is a find of Purdom's from 
high on Thundercrown, and may have reference perhaps to the 
plant described as Cremanthodium F 239. It was collected so 
late that no judgment can be attempted. 
Senecio sp. (F 450) is quite different. It suggests the Madeiran 
species called Summer Ivy, and flops trailing about in all the 
warm subalpine river shingles of the Border, with sprays of 
glossy hederaceous foliage about 8-12 inches long, and very 
loose corymbs of shrill-yellow flowers in July- August, Though 
bright and pretty as it flounders over the stones, it has a tang of 
that rank and virulent vulgarity from which the Ragworts so 
rarely escape. For the sunny moraine, however, though not 
choice, it should have a clothing and enlivening value. 
Senecio sp. (F 494) I believe to be quite new, and it should certainly 
take rank as S. Purdomii, not only for its beauty, but because 
Purdom was its original collector, and has always had all the 
danger and trouble of obtaining it. Successfully introduced 
in 1911, its seedlings only lived long enough to show the extreme 
difficulty of its cultivation. For, not only is it a plant of the 
wet and clammy bog, not only does it require to be raised in 
uniformly damp soil, but it is so passionately adored by slugs 
that it seems even to breed them for its own destruction in 
