SAXIFRAGA. 



however, it is only a May-be, and its beauties and capacities are 

 unproven. 



S. Blavii. See S. adscendens. 



S. Uepharophjlla is a quite dwarf high-alpine Porphyrion, allied 

 to S. biflora. It is, like all these plants of the upmost snow-shingles, 

 neither easy to grow nor worth the wear of growing, the habit being 

 straggling, and the clumped effect of the aniline purplish flowers 

 not handsome on the comparatively rank leafage of the flopping 

 shoots. It may be known by its broad blunt Leaves eyelashed 

 nearly to their tips with hairs. 



S. x Borisli is a hybrid between 8. Ferdinand* Coburgi and S. mar- 

 ginata. The leaves have the blue-grey tone of the first, but spread into 

 neat rosettes after the. fashion of the second, though the leaves are not 

 so sharply pointed. The little 3- to 4-inch stems are glandular and 

 pinkish, beset with glandular red hairs ; and the flowers are specially 

 charming, wide-clustered stars of bright pale citron-yellow : an easy 

 Kabschia, but a most choice one of the daintiest charm. 



S. Boryi is not easy to separate from the Coriophylla variety of 

 S. marginata, except that its shoot-stems are clad in old leaves all 

 their length, instead of being naked, or only shortly-columned with 

 debris. It is distinct, however, in appearance by the specially smooth 

 snug look of its little rounded thick leaves, each neatly edged with 

 white, and arranged in the neatest of massed and mounded rosettes, 

 spreading rapidly into wide cushions and mats. The stems are about 

 2 inches high, carrying a spray of four or five large white flowers in 

 the early year — an easy-going rare and precious Kabschia from 

 the upper rocks of Taygetos, &c. 



S. x Boydii has miftiness for its chief remaining attraction since the 

 introduction of S.xFaldonside and S.xPavlinae. It was a seedling 

 from S. Purseriana, juxtaposed with S. aretioeides. The result is a 

 very neat compact cushion of shoots clad in stiff short narrow needle- 

 like leaves, stiff and fat and bluish-grey in tone, emitting crimsoned 

 stems of an inch or two that bear noble blossoms, one or three to a 

 head, of clear citron-yellow, with the widening veins at the edge of the 

 notched petals that clearly show their descent from S. aretioeides. It 

 may have suffered from excessive division in the past, but is certainly 

 a plant of evil and uncertain habit, only to be tried in the choicest of 

 well-drained limy mixtures on a sunny but not torrid slope of rock- 

 work or moraine, with a sufficiency but no superabundance of water. 



S. x Boydii alba has nothing to do with the hybrid whose name it 

 bears, but is obviously of wholly different parentage, containing 

 none of S. aretioeides's unvarying legacies, but suggesting the influence 



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