SAXIFRAGA. 



separate it from the larger-leaved, paler, blunter S.xapiculata, with 

 its pedicellcd primrose blossoms in a looser cluster. The only require- 

 ment of 8. x Elizdbethae in the garden is sometimes to be pulled to 

 pieces and replanted, when it begins to sicken and go brown in the 

 middle, as sometimes happens if the carpet is getting old, and about 

 a yard across. Elizabeth, in this case, is the -late Dowager of Rou- 

 mania, Carmen Sylva. 



S. x Engleri, Huter, is not the same thing as S. Engler (Dalla 

 Torre). It is the hybrid of 8. incrustata and 8. Hostii, with the leaves 

 of the grey and beaded rosette narrower than in 8. Hostii, but more 

 club-shaped than in 8. incrustata ; they are also quite shortly and 

 bluntly scalloped. The spike and flowers are intermediate ; it is not 

 specially beautiful, though useful and vigorous. 



8. Engleri (Dalla Torre) is merely a robust form of 8. stellaris. 



S. Engleri (of gardens) is one of the secondary Aeizoon crosses, form- 

 ing very large masses of rosettes made up of very long and narrow dark- 

 green beaded leaves, of handsome effect, with rare and gaunt spikes 

 of 18 inches or so, branching stiffly and scantily near the top, and 

 rather grudgingly furnished with fat creamy flowers rather feeble by 

 comparison with the huge cushions of the plant, and the stout un- 

 furnished stature of the stems. 



8. erioblasta is a wee Mossy living in the highest limestones of 

 Granada, with rosettes of minutely tiny leaves, either entire or micro- 

 scopically trilobed. The stems are an inch or two in height, carrying 

 from one to three erect flowers of white or pink. (See 8. sjjathulata.) 



8. erosa, Pursch., sometimes offered as S. micranthidifolia, is a 

 large, coarse, and ugly species of the Boraphila group, with big tufts 

 of oblong nibble-edged leathery leaves, and branching leafy spikes of 

 2 feet high, carrying showers of small white bloom. It most suggests an 

 enlarged 8. leucanthemifolia, and is only to be admitted to the damp 

 bog-garden, and there without welcome. 



8. erythrantha calls out all our longings. It must be the jewel 

 of its race, as well as the only red-flowered Kabschia. For it is said 

 to be a rare form of S. scardica, met with on Scardus, Kyllene, the 

 Thcssalian Olympus, &c, among the type, from which it differs, 

 apparently, neither in mass of tight and thorny little bead-edged 

 broad-leaved rosettes, nor in abundance of goodly 4-inch stems, nor 

 in size of the ample flowers in their characteristic loose heads almost 

 suggestive of some very handsome big-blossomed white crucifer ; but 



here the blossoms are not white. They are of brilliant rose-purple 



in the interests of the race's future, no less in that of the garden, well 

 worth the journey to Scardus or Kyllene in blossom-time to see them 



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