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at their end. When this is found, the runner comes to earth, the 

 bud lodges, and a new rosette unfolds. A slope several feet across, 

 filled with S. Brunoniana, has quite the effect of a carpet of fine stiff 

 rosettes, doddered over with innumerable pink threads of Cuscuta. 

 and sending up many dainty leafy stems with large flowers of bright 

 golden -yellow in summer. 



S. bryoeides. See under 8. aspera. 



S. Bucklandii. See under 8. cuneifolia. 



S. bulbifera is a cousin of 8. granulate, producing a tall gaunt stem 

 set with leaves and bulbils, and carrying at the top a closely clustered 

 head of white flowers. It has no particular attraction. 



S.xBurnati owes its existence to 8. aeizoon and 8. cochhari?. and is 

 a singularly beautiful and successful cross, for the rounded rosettes 

 are thicker in the leaf than those of 8. cochharis, while they still have 

 not the overlapping fullness of S. aeizoon, but retain that lovely blue- 

 grey colouring and elongate form of S. cochharis, to which they add 

 Aeizoon's delicate beaded margin of silver ; they he curling outward, as 

 in the Lingulata group, instead of inward as in the Aeizoons. 

 many spikes are 6 or 9 inches high, and the flowers, in loose and lovely 

 sprays, have almost the solidified contour of an Aeizoon (though 

 more refined), together with the perfectly pure-white colour that 

 distinguishes 8. cochharis. It is as ready a grower as either of its 

 parents, and a treasure of special note. 



8. Burseriana has long taken rank as one of the stock plants of the 

 choicest garden, and reams of correspondence constantly flow between 

 successful and unsuccessful cultivators. It is the choicest and earliest, 

 and the largest -flowered, and altogether the loveliest of the Kabschias, 

 forming mats a foot across, dense with thick and spiny glaucous-blue 

 leaves, from which arise hi February and March red stems of an inch 

 or two, bearing each a single enormous pure-white flower, wide open, 

 solid and splendid. The distribution of the species is almost entirely 

 within the quadrilateral of the Dolomites, where it is to be seen 

 locally in the canons and silt -beds under the cliffs, affecting rocks 

 and banks which do not get the whole fierce heat of the sun. As a rule 

 it is not alpine, and the most magnificent form of all its developments 

 belongs to quite low levels in the valley of the Adige, as in the Salurn 

 Klamm, or higher, in the Schlern Klamm ; but everywhere and always 

 on the limestone, and especially happy in rippled shady banks of limy 

 silt, clammy and cool and fine as grit, up against the foot of a great 

 precipice from whose inhospitable crannies its aged tufts can seed their 

 children down into happier homes. Its distribution is most strange ; 

 in the Salurn Klamm and the Adige valley, this typical-looking moun- 



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