Tas. 8308. 
SAXIFRAGA GrisEBACHIL 
South East Europe. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. Tribe SAXIFRAGEAE. 
Saxrpraaa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 685. 
Saxifraga (Kabschia) Grisebachii, Degen et Dirfl. in Denkschr. Acad. Wiss. 
Wien. vol. lxiv. p. 721; Irving in Gard. Chron. 1909, vol. xlvi. p. 195, 
fig. 81; affinis S. Frederici-Augusti, Bias., sed foliis basalibus majoribus 
confertis et patentibus differt. 
Herba caespitosa, caudiculis brevibus dense foliosis; caules floriferi erecti, 
foliosi, 10-15 cm. alti, dense et patule glanduloso-pilosi. /olia inferiora 
imbricata, patula, sessilia, spathulato-lingulata, apice rotundato-mucronata, 
0-5-2 cm. longa, 0:4-0°6 cm. lata, supra foveolis intramarginalibus nume- 
rosis, subtus carinata, margine cartilagineo versus basin parce ciliato; folia 
caulina patentia, oblongo-spathulata, circiter 1 em. longa et 3 mm. lata, 
rubella, apice in mucronem viridem contracta, utrinque mucrone excepto 
dense glanduloso-pilosa. /n/lovescentia racemosa vel subspicata ; pedicelli 
bracteis multo breviores. Calyx rubro-purpureus, dense glanduloso-pilosus ; 
lobi inaequales, oblongo-elliptici, apice rotundati, usque ad 6 mm. 
longi. Petala erecta, elliptico-lanceolata, purpurea, circiter 2 mm. longa, 
vix 1 mm. lata, inferne ciliata. Stamina petalis vix longiora.— 
J. HuToHINson. 
The Saxifrage which forms the subject of our illustration 
is a native of the mountains of Albania and Central 
Macedonia. It was introduced into cultivation in 1902, 
in which year it received a first class certificate from the 
Royal Horticultural Society. It is a member of the section 
Kabschia, Eng]., which includes three other species with red 
flowers and with somewhat similar foliage and_ habit, 
S. Frederici-Augusti, S. media, and the recently introduced 
S. Stribrnyi. From the first of these S. Grisebachii is 
readily distinguished by having larger and more spreading 
basal leaves. The two others differ from our plant mainly 
in having a branched inflorescence with distinctly pedicelled 
flowers. At Kew S. Grisebachii is grown in pots in a cold 
frame, and is transferred in March, when it comes into 
flower, to the Alpine House, where it continues in blossom 
for a month or more. When grown out of doors the plant, 
though quite hardy in other respects, is apt to suffer in 
winter from excess of moisture. 
Aprin, 1910. 
