SAXIFRAGA. 



a moist -ground plant, in the kinship of S. flagellaris but with much 

 fewer "leaves on the almost bare stems of 2 or 3 inches, rising from 

 clumps of leaves at the base, and each carrying one or two large golden 

 stars of blossom. 



S. chrysospleni folia should more properly be called 8. rotundifolia 

 repanda, and is a Miscopetalum, close akin to typical S. rotundifolia in 

 habit as in habits, but of tenderer consistency, and with blunt toothing 

 to the leaves. 



S. Churchillii, Huter (S. elatior, Stein), is a valuable and beautiful 

 Acizoon hybrid, having all the appearance of a much larger and freer 

 flowering S. aeizoon, but with quite distinct rosettes, large and stiff- 

 leaved and grey, deriving clearly from its other parent, 8. Hostii, from 

 which it differs in having the broad conspicuous silver-beading rather 

 sharp on the forward- and upward-pointing teeth, instead of bluntly 

 scalloped as in 8. Hostii, though they are broader than in 8. aeizoon, 

 and the whole growth on a larger scale. 



S. ciliata is a Bergenia, and merely a slimmer form of the hopeless 

 S. ligulata, with flowers of flushing pink. It has a further variety 

 S. Milesii, and two white ones, alba and afghanica. 



S. circinata does not exist. The name adumbrates 8. incrustata. 



S. circuenta exists still less, and its name adumbrates nothing, 

 unless perhaps a misprinted memory of the last. S. pectinata and 

 S. paradoxa are the old friends most usually thus disguised. 



S. x Clarkei, Siindermann, 1908, is another rosy-flowered hybrid 

 of the Englerias, whose various children are now much too copiously 

 and unauthoritatively named in catalogues. 



S. Clusii may be taken as a magnified 8. stellaris, with big coarsely- 

 toothed leaves from the basal rosette, with a large leafy-bracted shower 

 of loose pink-freckled white stars. There is, or was once, a form 

 much beloved in gardens called S. c. propaginea, with bulbils in the 

 axils of the basal leaves, and many scapes coming from the rosette, 

 branching into a pyramid of flower that often is no pyramid of flower 

 at all, the blossoms being replaced by bulbils. Both these are for 

 the moist-ground treatment indicated for 8. stellaris. 



S. cochlearis is a variable and most beautiful Euaeizoon, whose 

 place in the race is less certain than that which it holds in our hearts 

 and gardens. It stands between two marked forms of 8. lingulata, 

 though typically much smaller than either ; and was formerly ranked 

 by Engler as a mere variety of 8. lantoscana. It makes humped and 

 massed domes of stiff rounded rosettes, built of very fat thick little 

 outward-curling leaves, narrow, and with the characteristic Lingulata- 

 swelling at the tip, here so condensed as to make a sort of spoon- 



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