SAXIFRAGA. 



8. aei. major, Koch, earns our gratitude. For it helps us out 

 of various confusions by swallowing up the following synonyms : 

 S. aei. Malyi, 8. robusta (of Schott, Nyman, Kotschy, &c.), S. aei. 

 robusta (Engler), S. aei. recta, fiabellata, linguifolia, and valida. It 

 is the dominant form of Dalmatia — a fine form and a notable grower ; 

 the ample rosettes of broad leaves are markedly incurved, and are 

 always tinged with red (which deepens in autumn), and the teeth on 

 tho upper part of the incurving leaves are not conspicuous through 

 the lime-rim. The gawky flower-stems are not generously produced, 

 but stand about 18 inches high, set with glands ; and the handsome 

 amply-petalled flowers are well set on the scant branches, and strongly 

 speckled with red all over. 



SS. aei. marginata, micrantha, microphylla, and min ima explain their 

 own merits and distinctions with quite sufficient definiteness. The 

 number of such varieties could be increased without end. 



S. aei. minor, again, only sues for a name in forma pauperis, being 

 small in the rosette, as poor in lime as an unfinished egg, and with 

 stunted spikes carrying little flowers few and dull. 



8. aei. nepalensis had better apply for its description to Mrs. Betsey 

 Prig, who will reply without doubt that its correct name should be 

 8. Harrisiae. See 8. Cotyledon and 8. " nepalensis." 



8. aei. notata is a compact plant after the kind of 8. aei. major, but 

 much smaller, pleasant and comely and compact in the incurved broad- 

 leaved little rosettes, never enlarging even when the spike shoots up, 

 and with the backs of the foliage always reddened. It is a fine grower 

 and pretty in the growth ; but the blossoms are poor, spotless, starry, 

 and of a bad cream-colour, pink in the bud, crowded on their short 

 foot-stalks, on the scanty sprays of stunted little scantily-branched 

 red-glandular stems of about 6 inches or so. 



8. aei. orientalis is merely a slender-stemmed and few-flowered 

 form. 



8. aei. paradoxa. See 8. paradoxa. 



8. aei. pectinata. See 8. pectinata. 



S. aei. punctata has a large rosette of strap-shaped leaves rather 

 feebly beaded with lime. The flowers are densely spotted, and the 

 spire of blossom especially well-furnished on a stout glandular stem. 



S. aei. punctaiissima. — I am under the necessity of thus distin- 

 guishing a development of my own that is a seedling from a beautiful 

 form found years ago on the Hubel by the Rosenlaui glacier. Tho 

 parent was of the best small-habited larger-flowered graceful type of 

 rather slender Aeizoons, and attracted my notice only because of the 

 dense pink spotting on the round petals. The child, however, losing 



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