Tas. 8058. 
SAXIFRAGA scarpica. 
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Balkan Peninsula. 
Saxrpracacea. Tribe SaxIPRaGE®. 
SaxrrraGa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635. 
Saxifraga scardica, Griseb. Spicil. Fl. Rumel. vol. i. p. 332; Engel. Monogr. 
Sawifraga, p. 261; Halicsy, Consp. Fl. Grec. vol. i. p. 598; W. L. in The 
Garden, 1904, p. 323; ab affini S. rocheliana, Sternb., foliis oblongis 
magis minusve acutis recedit. 
Planta czspitosa, caudiculis densissime foliatis. Folia basalia patula, 
oblonga, acuta vel subacuta, 3-3 poll. longa, rigida, supra leviter con- 
cava, foveolis intramarginalibus 5-15, subtus convexa, siccitate carinata, 
margine cartilagineo, usque ad vel ultra medium ciliata. Caules florifert 
erecti vel ascendentes, usque ad 3 poll. longi, 1-11-flori, glanduloso- 
pilosi, floribus corymbosis. Folia cauline sparsa, oblonga, basin versus 
angustata, acuta vel apiculata. Calyx presertim infra medium glandu- 
loso-pilosus; Jobi ovati, acutiusculi vel obtusi, 14 lin. longi. Petala 
obovata, basi cuneata, 44 lin. longa, irregulariter 5-7-venia. Filamenta 
stylos paullo superantia.—Sazifraga Sartorii, Heldr. in Boiss. Fl. Or. 
Suppl. p. 248. 
The plants figured were purchased from F. Sindermann 
of Lindau im Bodensee, Bavaria, and flowered in the 
Alpine House at Kew in March of last year. J’. scardica 
is also grown in the Rock Garden, where it is quite hardy, 
and flowers freely during March and April. It may be 
expected to supersede, to some extent, the well-known 
S. burseriana, L., in popular favour, as it is more showy, 
and stands damp weather better. ’. scardica, as cultivated 
at Kew, has obtuse sepals and less acute leaves than the 
type, and in these respects approaches 8S. rocheliana, 
Sternb., which may be distinguished from its allies by its 
spathulate leaves. We have little hesitation, however, in 
retaining the Kew plant under S. scardica, since Halacsy 
has recently extended the limits of that species by in- 
cluding in it 8. Sartorit, Heldr., which has obtuse sepals 
and relatively broad leaves. If we accept Halaesy’s views, 
the distribution of the species is as follows :—Mt. Scardus 
(Shar Dagh), Albania, Mts. Olympus and Ossa, Thessaly, 
Mt. Delphi, Euboea, Mt. Parnassus, Phocis, and a purple- 
flowered variety (var. erythrantha, Haldcsy) on Mt. Kyllene, 
Achaia. 
The little pits inside the margin on the upper surface of 
Fesrvary Ist, 1906, 
