Tas. 8434, 
SAXIFRAGA LinauLATa. 
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Maritime Alps. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. Tribe SAXIFRAGEAE. 
Saxrrraca, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635. 
Saxifraga lingulata, Bellardi, App. Fl. Pedem. p.20; Eng?. Monogr. Saxifraga, 
p. 235; Burnat, Fl, Alpes Marit. vol. iii. p. 259; Sprague in Kew Bull. 
1911, p. 129; rosulis foliorum polyphyllis, foliis longis linearibus acutis 
supra canaliculatis distincta. 
Herba caudiculis rosulas polyphyllas gerentibus. Folia linearia (interdum 
subspathulato-linearia), acuta, 3-12 cm. longa, 3-5 mm. lata, rigida, 
recurva, supra canaliculata, inferne rubra, foveis intramarginalibus 
numerosis conspicue caleareo-incrustatis, Panicula suboblonga, multiflora ; 
pedunculus 6-13 em. longus, foliatus ; bracteae oblongae, acutae, in‘eriores 
circiter 1-5 cm. longae, ceterae sursum gradatim minores. Calyx inferne 
minute glandnlosus; lobi suberecti, oblongi, apice rotundati, 2°5 mm. 
longi, 1°5 mm. lati, glanduloso-ciliolati.  Petala anguste obovata vel 
oblongo-obovata, 8 mm. longa, 3°5 mm. lata, alba, inferne ciliolata, 
purpureo-gnttata, trinervia nervis lateralibus } supra basin ortis. Fila- 
menta subulata, oppositisepala 2°5 mm. longa, oppositipetala 2 mm longa. 
Styli breves, liberi, apice demum recurvi—S. cdl/osa, Smith in J. Dickson, 
Coll. Dried Pl. fasc. 8, no. 63, nomen prius.—T. A. Spracus, 
The subject of our plate is an old garden plant which 
has been grown for many years in the collection at Kew, 
where it is quite hardy. Perhaps the finest of the Silver 
Saxifrages, S. lingulata was discovered by Bellardi in the 
mountains of Piedmont towards the close of the eighteenth 
century, and was at first confused by most botanists with 
the Pyrenaean S. longifolia. Typical S. lingulata would 
appear to be all but confined to the Italian Maritime Alps. 
On the French side of the frontier its place is taken by a 
distinct variety, var. lantoscana, Engl., which has_ short, 
spathulate, very obtuse Jeaves and a unilateral panicle. In 
Central and Southern Italy it is again replaced by another 
distinct variety, var. australis, Engl., which has broader, 
more or less linear-spathulate Jeaves. These two varieties 
have sometimes been treated as specifically distinct from 
S. lingulata proper, but the identity of the three as regards 
May, 1912. 
