SAXIFRAGA. 



effect, being loosely borne on rather tall stems of a foot and more, 

 comparatively few in number, large and round in outline, and of a 

 good creamy-white. 



S. aei. Jlavescens. — In many places, notably on the Southern side 

 of the Bernina, the prevailing form of the species (there especially 

 line and abundant) is surprisingly flavescent, but the name belongs 

 particularly to a form found above Arolla among the creamy typo, 

 and of a greener tone of leaf, and an even clearer noto of palest 

 citron (rather than thickened cream) in the flower. The plant is a 

 most healthy grower, free in flower, and with elegant and elegantly 

 furnished little spikes of 5 or 6 inches. 



S. aei. gracilis is like a smaller 8. aei. Slurmiana, with the leaves 

 < 1 the amassed rosettes rather more pointed, slenderer stems, and 

 slightly smaller flowers. 



S. aei. hirsuta comes from Corsica, and is, indeed, hairy all over in 

 a very minute way. Otherwise it is only a medium-sized S. aeizoon, 

 with poor stodgy blossoms. 



8. aei. intacta is probably a hybrid between 8. aeizoon and S. 

 Hostii. It is the large coarse long-leaved form so common in gardens, 

 with tall, rare, and rather gawky stems of a foot or so, furnished 

 scantily with branches whose flowers vary in the degree of their 

 spotting, or in the possession of any spots at all. There is another 

 form called S. aei. farinosa intacta ; and both plants are copious 

 growers, handsome in the foliage, and generally useful. 



S. aei. labradorica is a delightful tiny form of the species, with 

 pretty flowers, as well as neat diminutive rosettes, round and charming. 



S. aei. laeta is 8. aei. Slurmiana, though the confusion of course 

 is infinite, and some authorities suppose it, instead, a synonym of 

 intacta. 



S. aei. lagraveana belongs to tho miniature group, and offers a 

 worthy pair to 8. aei. labradorica, both being larger than 8. aei. 

 baldensis, and not having quite that expansion of the wee rosette, nor 

 the conspicuous crenelated effect due to the presence of serrations 

 on leaves so small that there is hardly room for them. 



8. aei. lutea is yet moro definitely yellow than S. aei. Jlavescens 

 (as it ought to be). It is also a much larger plant, though with tho 

 same pale-green note about the well-furnished rather narrow-leaved 

 roa ttes. r i 'he habit, however, is twice the sizo, and so are the flower- 

 spikes — pale-yellow blossom-spires of a foot or so, admirably adapted 

 for planting in and out of a plantation of S. aei. rosea, if the two bo 

 Bel in broad drifts together, with Aster alpinus lor a further beautifica- 

 tion of the slope. 



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