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the danker, moister, darker rocks and ravines of the alpine woodland- 
region. It is rather untidy and lush and lacking in stamina, yet by 
no means to be despised for a place where it will be happy. 
C. scaberula (F 716).' — Failing C. melanochlora, this is as good an 
acquisition as you could have in the race. I know no cultivated 
Corydal that equals it. This beauty belongs to open stony places at 
great elevations, most especially by the very track-sides zigzagging 
up to the immediate crest of Wolvesden Pass. The growth is stout, 
but concise, in stiff tufts of very handsome glaucous foliage, from 
which rise many stout, crowded, stiff spires of blossom, pale, and rich 
claret-coloured at the mouth, with a dark tip ; very variable in light 
or depth of tone, but always of a strange and striking attractiveness, 
in their close fox-brush spires of four to six inches in July and August. 
Cremanthodium sp. (F 587) is the only species of 1915 that I can 
attribute to this group. It is a singularly charming thing, haunting 
only moist shingles and shaded cliffs, preferably of limestone, at great 
elevations on the alps, where, in the damp corries, it makes single tufts 
of very handsome glossy foliage, from which rise stems of five or six 
inches, each hanging out one single pendulous flower in August, like a 
small golden Dahlia. 
Daphne sp. (F 553) — The Daphne of 1915 differs from those of 
the year before in being a non-calcicole species. It is a rather ragged, 
round bushling of two feet or so, very profuse with terminal and 
lateral clusters up the stems, of blossoms which either very often 
vary from palest pink to ivory white, or else fade immediately. 
For of ivory white is their almost universal effect, their fragrance 
is delicious, and their resultant berries are of bright scarlet. All 
over these alps it abounds in the typical Daphne situations, amid 
the opener scrub and over the rougher turf in the lower region, up to 
ten thousand feet round Wolvesden House. (Photograph.) 
Delphinium sp. (F 570, D. Pylzowi ?) is a remarkable Delphinium, 
forming, at its richest, mounded masses nine inches across and six in 
height, covered with very large flowers of richest violet, standing out 
solitary on their long peduncles. On Wolvesden Pass it luxuriates 
in the stony earthy open track-sides to such an extent that the clouds 
of purple in which it mists the upper reaches are visible from far 
below and far away ; while when you ascend and find the azure 
spires of Meconopsis Prattii ascending profusely amid the purple, 
you realize a colour-effect of unsurpassed audacity and unsurpassed 
success. But one cannot answer for these alpine Delphiniums in 
cultivation after the grievous behaviour of that glorious F 253 (D. 
tanguticum), which, in the upmost shingles of the Min S'an, was solitary- 
flowered and fluttered close over the surface of the scree, but in 
cultivation seems to have developed a stem and a stature hardly less 
than that of F 570, its cousin. Delphinium sp. (F 611) may be some 
close relation of D. grandiflorum. It abounds in the hayfields at 
Bridgehead, about where you cross the river to go to Tien Tang, 
and its tall stems are loosely set with large azure flowers in August. 
