Tas. 8243, 
SAXIFRAGA scARDICA. 
Balkan Peninsula. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE. ‘Tribe SAXIFRAGEAE. 
SAXxIFRAGA, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635. 
Saxifraga scardica, Griseb. Spicil. F/, Rumel. vol. i. p. 332; Engl. Monogr. 
Saxifraga, p. 261; affinis S. Rochelianue, Sternb., a qua foliis acutis recedit. 
Herba caespitosa caudiculis dense foliatis. Folia inferiora patula, oblonga, 
acuta, 6-10 mm. longa, 2°5-3 mm. lata, rigida, supra leviter concava, 
subtus convexa in sicco carinata, margine cartilagineo in planta culta 
inferne ciliato superne serrulato, foveis intramarginalibus 9-15. Caules 
floriferi erecti vel ascendentes, 7-11 cm. longi, 3-11-flori, glanduloso-pilosi, 
rubro-tincti, floribus corymbosis; folia caulina sparsa, anguste oblonga, 
acuta, 6-7 mm. longa, 1°5 mm. lata, glanduloso-ciliata praeter partem 
tertiam vel quartam superam. Calyx extus glanduloso-pilosus; lobi 
ovati, acutiusculi, circiter 3 mm. longi. Petala oblanceolata, 5-nervia, 
vix 1 em. longa, 4 mm. lata. Stamina longiora stylos aequantia.— 
T. A. SPRAGUE. 
In 1905 (B. M. t. 8058) a figure was given of the form 
of S. scardica that is most usually met with in alpine 
gardens. This figure was accompanied by a description 
applicable to the species as a whole, and it was pointed out 
by Mr. Sprague that the form there figured is not the 
typical state of the species. It did not then, however, 
appear desirable to press the point, or to suggest the 
recognition in the plant figured at t. 8058 of a new variety, 
more especially as Halacsy had recently (Consp. Fl. Graee. 
vol. i. 1901, p. 598) interpreted the species in a very wide 
sense. 
_ To Mr. R. Farrer, of Ingleborough, English horticulture 
is we understand indebted for the introduction of the rare 
typical S. scardica, a living plant of which was presented to 
Kew in 1908 by Mr. E. H. Jenkins of Hampton Hill. When 
this plant was grown alongside the form figured in 1905 it 
was evident that the latter is well entitled to the rank of 
a variety. The differences exhibited by the two formsmay be 
briefly stated. In S. scardica proper, here figured, the lower 
Marcu, 1909, 
