SAXIFRAGA. 



foot -stalk. It has innumerable forms and hybrids; among them 

 are : S. c. rubra, ovata, com pacta, nana. alba. cordifoliQ (notably large in 

 the leaf), cord, purpurea, media, aureo-marginata, &c. 



S. x crispa owes its origin to 8. G:nm and 8. cuneifolia. The result 

 is a pleasant little intermediate London Pride, with most graceful 

 showers of white stars. Q anywhere. 



S. crustata and 8. cristata. See under S. incrustata. 



8. cult rata. See under 8. aeizoon. 



S. cuneata often masquerades in gardens as S. Willkommiana. It 

 is not a trustworthy species, having, like many of the thick-leaved 

 Spanish Mossics, a tendency to miff off; but, if established happily 

 in a light and sunny place, it makes a really effective mass of wedge- 

 shaped broad leaves, fleshy-fat and sticky, cloven into three lobes and 

 borne on foot-stalks shorter than themselves (or of the same length). 

 The blossoms are large and white and beautiful, borne in loose branch- 

 ing showers on many valid stems of 8 inches or so. 



8. cuneifolia makes one of the most charming of spectacles in shady 

 woodland places, where it forms a carpet of tiny London-Pridish 

 rosettes, dark bright green, tapering at the base and scalloped at the 

 edge. The dainty spikes are 3 inches high or so, delicately bending 

 to unloose a dainty shower of white stars, with a yellow dot at the 

 base of each oval little petal. It is very widely distributed through 

 all the alpine woods, and varies in the course of its distribution. Among 

 the forms especially distinguished are S. c. Bucklandii, a rather larger 

 development, with the leaves less scalloped, and two yellow dots at 

 the base of each petal. 8. c. Infundibulum exists merely by virtue of 

 an inconstant and artificial distinction ; the neat cup or funnel of the 

 unfolding foliage is supposed to be deeper and more evident. But the 

 symptom is. not certain, and the plant as it develops further is indis- 

 tinguishable from the type. S. c. subintegra is also S. mvlticaulis 

 (Lange) and S. apennina (Bert.), as well as being usually sent out by 

 gardeners under the name of S. capillaris, by a gardener's misspelling 

 for S. eapiUipea (Rchb.). This is a specially delightful little form, 

 of much paler green all over, and with the flower-stems green instead 

 of red as in the others, even more freely produced and more freely 

 branching from nearer the base, and consequently carrying a gr 

 number of larger and snowier-white flowers, which not only have the 

 basal golden dot but also a freckling of pink spots as well. 



8. cuscuiaeformis is a Mother of Thousands, to be seen in every 

 ouse, bui nol ]»< rman< ntly to be trusted out of doors. 



pidata. See under 8. broncl 

 Gymbalaria figures more often in catalogues than in gardens. 

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