SAXIFRAGA. 



three stars, but also by blossoms of quite remarkable size and brilliance, 

 on 5-inch stems, on large and very broad-leaved bluish-white rosettes. 

 The type is extremely local in its own valleys, and I have not yet 

 seen it growing with the Lingulatas — which, however, are so close at 

 hand that this year revealed a clear hybrid of S. cochlearis with the great 

 S. I. Bellardii — a plant obviously intermediate, with the lovely leafage 

 of the smaller parent rather enlarged, and the loose milky plumes of 

 the other rather diminished. In the garden all the forms of 8. 

 cochlearis are of tho most admirable and indestructible vigour, whether 

 on the sunny or the shady side of the rock-work, and whether endowed 

 with lime in their rocks or no. If the site be very torrid, however, and 

 the water-supply inadequate, it might always be preferable, in hot 

 countries, to plant this race (the whole of it, and the Lingulatas too) 

 on the cooler and shadier exposures of the rock-work. On the almost 

 sunless cliff at Ingleborough the entire group is naturalised in perfect 

 comfort and vigour, in crevices of the mountain limestone, making 

 wide fat cushions as at home. 



S. cognata. See under 8. bronchialis. 



S. compacta is a Kabschia like a 8. Burseriana, with rather smaller 

 yellow flowers, above mats of specially dense and spiny glaucous-grey 

 foliage, sending out offsets like a Sempervivum, on stems that are 

 never pink or sticky-glandod, but always quite smooth and more 

 frequently set with leaves. (Cliffs of Lena, East Siberia.) 



S. conifera is a small Mossy with small and feeble white stars on 

 short stems, from rosettes of narrow bristle-pointed and always lobeless 

 and toothless leaves, very tightly packed and overlapping along the 

 shoots, and emitting oblong gem-buds clothed in densely -webbed and 

 bristly -pointed membranous leaves. It is neither pretty nor easy to 

 grow ; the plant sent out under its name is 8. globulifera in various 

 forms, but here the leaves are always more or less lobed, the entire 

 packed foliage along the shoot being the invariable diagnostic of 

 8. conifera among all its Mossy kin. 



S. cordifolia is a yet larger-leaved form of 8. crassifolia, q.v. 



8. cordigera is a high Himalayan Hirculus, with dense tufts, and 

 golden flowers on stems of 3 or 4 inches, invested in cordate leafage. 



8. coriacea comes close into the relationship of 8. stellaris. 



8. coriophylla. See under S. marginata. 



8. Corsica is a pretty little pygmy of 8. granulata, but the name (or 

 that of "Corsicana") is often given in catalogues to 8. pedemontana, 

 especially in its form S. p. cymosa. 



S. cortusaefolia is a splendid and valuable plant of the Diptera 

 group. It thrives in the same rich soils and sheltered well-drained 



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