Tas. 6702. 
SAXIFRAGA MARGINATA, 
Native of Southern Italy and Greece. 
Nat. Ord. SaxrFraGacex.—Tribe SaxIFRAGER. 
Genus Saxrrraca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen. Pl, vol. ii, p. 635.) 
Saxtrraca (Kabschia) marginata; glanduloso-pubescens, caspitosa, caudiculis 
lignosis dense foliosis, foliis radicalibus rosulatis cuneato-obovatis obtusis basi 
ciliatis cartilagineo-marginatis caulinis linearibus erectis, caule florifero erecto, 
floribus corymbosis, calycis nigro-glandulosi lobis oblongo-ovatis obtusis, petalis 
amplis obovatis 5-7-nerviis staminibus triplo longioribus, capsula late ovoidea. 
S. marginata, Sternb. Sawifr. Suppl. vol. i. t.1,£.1; Moretti Tent. Saxifr. 35; 
Bertoloni Fl. Ital. vol. iv. p. 460; Ten. Fl. Nap. t. 234; Engler Monog. 
Gatt. Saxifr. p. 262. ‘ 
S. cotyledon, Ten. Cat. Hort. Neap. App. vol. ii. p. 86. 
S. Boryi, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2, p. 65; Fi. Orient. vol. ii. p- 801. 
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Savifraga marginata belongs to a section of the genus as 
divided by Engler in his valuable monograph published in 
1872, called Kabschia, in which the leaves are pitted and 
Secrete lime along the margins and at the tip, and have 
perennial shoots with alternate leaves. About eighteen 
Species belong to this section, most of them natives of dry 
calcareous mountains in the south of Europe, and the 
Levant, from whence they spread eastwards to the Himalaya. 
Mr. Ball, in a note attached to the specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium, remarks that its nearest ally is 8. scardica, 
Griseb., with which it should perhaps be united, and that 
it differs from its other ally, S. media, in the inflorescence 
and large white flowers, which latter are erroneously 
coloured red (possibly through the discoloration of the 
pigments) in Sternberg’s great work. 8S. scardica (a native 
of Greece) differs, according to Engler, in having deeply 
keeled acute leaves. 
S. marginata is a native of Mount Taygetus in Greece, 
from whence, however, I have seen no specimens; those I 
have seen are from the Abruzzi in Italy, collected by 
JULY Ist, 1883. 
