SAXIFRAGA. 



nothing of tho fine gracious little habit, the small rosette and neat mat, 

 has developed a spotting so dense and fine that the whole bloom ap- 

 pears of a dusky and blushing tone — its whole st}de of growth being 

 absolutely distinct from S. aei. balcana, no less in the much slighter, 

 smaller, slenderer habit, and proportionately larger and fewer flowers, 

 than in the minuteness of the thick red-peppering which gives them 

 a quite different effect, on their dainty stems of only 3 or 4 inches. 

 It is, however, as ready to grow as the best of the wild types, and 

 no less charming in the tumble of small and comfortably-rounded 

 rosettes, vividly beaded, than in the few large blossoms. 



S. aei. pusilla is small and frail. 



8. aei. recta=S. on q.v. 



8. aei. B < -;>rings from one clump discovered among thousands of 

 the finest sandslone-type on the upper moraine of the Dossenhorn in 

 1903, and sent home in tho same box that was also illustrated by 

 Campanula Bellardii Miranda. The plant stands the test of time, 

 and of examination, even in the welter of Aeizoons. It is a supreme and 

 culminating form ; the crowded neat masses of stiff expanding rosettes 

 have not so much of the common triangular look at the tip of the leaf, 

 and are notably handsome with their broad overlapping outlines, richly 

 beaded with silver ; the flower-stems are mahogany-red, very numerous 

 and sturdy, arising to 8 or 10 inches, and set in fine proportion with a 

 number of branches carrying well-rounded flowers of great size and 

 amphtude in a tone of cream-white unusually pure and striking in an 

 Aeizoon. It is a perfectly free grower and flowerer in the garden. 



S. aei. robusta, Schott. = S. aei. major, Koch, q.v. 



8. aei. rosea is really pink. It was introduced from the mountains 

 of Bulgaria, and is a variety of outshining value among all, lavish 

 and hearty alike in growth and flower, with handsome medium-sized 

 and wr-11-silvered open rosettes of strap-shaped triangle-ended leaves, 

 forming into dense domes a foot and more across (and then to be 

 divided ; every fragment grows as if it were a hated water-weed in- 

 stead of a beloved alpine). The flower-spikes are about a foot high, or 

 even more, well and gracefully furnished with many sprays of lovely 

 ample blossoms in a soft clear shade of pink, fading in the sun, and 

 with development, to a paler shade. 



S. aei. rosularis is the largest of the incurving-leaved forms, sur- 

 ng Notata and even Major. It does not always grow so vigorously 

 as they, but blooms, on the other hand, more generously. All tho 

 l<-av< b incurve, and are pointed. Tho flower-stems are green and 

 nearly gl. i with green unblushing foliage ; they are taller than 



in Major, and may attain 2 feet. The flowers are not poor and narrow- 



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