-AXIFRAGA. 



thing to remember wit; ral run of these lovely things 



is that, while they love light and air, they usually del est being 

 parboiled nearly as much as they would detest being water - 

 gged. They are plants of the rocks and screes and shingles, 

 and some of them, even in nature, turn towards the cooler 

 aspects, but however ii sun may kiss the Italian and 



mtine Alps, it is never the same fury in that mountain air ; 

 with the • _ now percolating far beneath, and filling all 



the upper air with a soft veil through which the darts of Apollo 

 can never smite with such lethal ferocity as down on the 

 unprotected sands of Surrey or Kent. (Spring.) 



Geoup X. Ei jh.ria. — This group comes near the last, containing 

 a Bet of IE : - with taller and ampler spires 



of small . fluffy calyces of kindred 



colour. The group is distinct and important, and filled with 

 confused names ; their type shall be our nearest neighbour, 

 media of the Spanish middle-alpine region, which probably 

 covers more names than it knows of ; and their requirements 

 are those of Kabschia, though some of them seem to like more 

 sun. and one at least is native to less. (Spring.) 



Geoup XI. Miseopetalum. — Stout clumps for the shade and damp 

 woodland, with rounded fleshy notched leaves on long stalks. 

 and small uneven -pet ailed white stars in loose showers. 

 These all, large or little, are plants for cool soils and exposures, 

 in woodland or bog or damp ledges; and their representative 

 is the common S. rotundifolia of stream-sides in the alpine 

 woods. (Summer.) 



Geoup XII. Xephrophyllum. — Here the basal foliage is : 



kidney-shaped, lobed or many-cleft, while the plants often have 

 bulbils at the base and in the axils of the flower-stem. They are 

 all medium-siz:-d, slight or frail things for quite cool and 

 sometimes boggy conditions, and the type is our own S. 

 granulate of the Teesdale meadows. (Early summer.) 



Geoup XIII. PeltiphyUum contains only the noble Californian 

 pdtata with its Bergenia -flowers on tall stems, before the 

 tall-stemmed splendid leaves unfold. This for the waterside. 



Geoup XIV. Porphyria*. — Lawn-forming prostrate alpine and 

 high-alpine mats with rose-purple flowers. They ask for damp 

 moraine or cool open soil, and need no better illustration than 

 our own fi (Spring to early summer.) 



IP XV. R —The look and habits of all these may 



be drawn from London Pridi . (Early summer.) 

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