SAXIFRAGA. 



petalled as in Not at a, but ample and well-rounded as in Major, borne 

 in better trusses and of creamy white, freckled with red about the 

 middle of each petal. 



S. aei. Sempervivum is a large form, with incurving rosettes of thick 

 leaves. 



8. aei. Stabiana, or 8. aei. Sturmiana, is a rather small plant, making 

 wide tumbly mats of neat rosettes with blunt small broad leaves ; the 

 stem is only about 4 inches high, freely branching at the tip, and 

 carrying fat stars of creamy-white. It shares the cliffs of Palinurus 

 with Paiinurus' Primula. (Sec S. aei. laeta.) 



8. aei. triternata of Glasnevin is a small and down-hearted Aeizoon 

 with flowers of pale pink and a rather poor constitution. 



8. aei. " venetia," sometimes called 8. " venetia," is a very pretty 

 thing, belonging to the group of miniatures, though not yet quite 

 attaining the absurd and lichen-like density of habit that 8. aei. 

 baldensis never loses even when the rosettes have developed just a 

 little (they never do more) from their first fine baldensian rapture 

 of minuteness. 



S. afghanica of gardens is a form of S. Stracheyi. 



8. afglianica, Aitch. and Hems., is an unacquired Kabschia, like a 

 quarter-sized 8. marginata, with hardly any stems to speak of, from 

 the scablike huddles of tiny rounded rosettes, bearing clusters of 

 three or four white-petalled blossoms veined with purple. (Shendtoi 

 Pass in Afghanistan.) 



8. ajugaefolia is much commoner in catalogues than in gardens — 

 the plant most often sold instead of the rare true species being the 

 form aprica of 8. aquatica. The real thing is a rarity of the high 

 Spanish mountains (top of Maladetta, &c.) — a tiny prostrate Mossy, 

 with very fine shoots about 3 or 4 inches long, set with leaves cut into 

 five or seven lobes as thin and fine and sharp as in S. hypnoeides. 

 There are no rosettes or tufts, and the flower-stems rise up from the 

 axils of the lower leaves on the shoots — a thing that happens in no 

 other mossy Saxifrage except 8. perdurans (which has blunt leaf- 

 segments instead of sharp ones). They are 2 or 3 inches high, and 

 the flowers are white. It must have conditions of healthy and con- 

 stant moisture if it is to do well : and, if it be indeed Parkinson's 8. 

 chamaepity folia, is one of the oldest of its race in cultivation, though 

 its later Linnean name of ajugaefolia, of course, remains the only 

 valid one. 



S. x Alberti is a garden-hybrid of the same blood as S. x apiculata, 

 and hardly to be usefully distinguished from that unsurpassable plant. 

 All the same its masses of evergreen spiny foliage and clumped heads 



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