SAXIFRAGA. 



Lap., which its author, in describing and figuring, suggested might 

 only be a variety of S. nervosa. All these forms, being children of 

 the high gaunt places, will want cool culture in the underground- 

 watered moraine-bed. 



S. x Faklonside annihilates S. Boydii. It is another hybrid of the 

 same parentage, making cushions of the most beautiful blue-grey 

 spine-leaved rosettes, from which spring a profusion of reddened stems 

 of an inch or so, bearing great overlapping-petalled splendid flowers 

 of pure citron -yellow, well worthy of playing pale suns to even such 

 unrivalled white moons as those of S. Burseriana magna and S. B. 

 Gloria, than which, in similar open conditions or reasonable devotion 

 and regard, S. Faldonside is no whit less free alike in growth (though 

 smaller) and flower. 



S. x Farreri, Draco, has only the merit of interest to commend it. 

 For the plant is an unshowy little thing, with creamy stars on stems 

 of an inch or two, above rosettes of very minute three-cleft leaves. Its 

 claim to notice lies only in the fact that it is an intersectional hybrid, 

 found in one example by me some years ago on the Western face of 

 Ingleborough, and even as a two-leaved seedling showing such inter- 

 mediacy of character that its hybrid origin could not be doubted. 

 The parents, as it seems, are S.hypnoeides and the annual S. tridactylites , 

 there also abounding (together with S. oppositifolia and S. aeizoeides). 

 The hybrid, however, is perennial, and certainly distinct. 



S. Federici-Augusti, Biasol., is said by Halaczy to be the blue-grey 

 spiny -leaved Engleria that we also know as S. thessalica, Schott., with a 

 hybrid S. Bertoloni. (It also goes out as S. porophylla.) But the garden- 

 plant grown as S. Federici-Augusti is another Engleria, near S. media, 

 but larger and rounder in the more reflexing silver-edged grey leaves 

 of the rosette, with a very loose glandular spire of small pink bells 

 nodding in very large calyces of bright claret-colour and furry with 

 glands, the colour pervading the upper parts of the corymb. Both 

 forms grow easily in choice and calcareous conditions, and each in 

 its quite different character is full of subtle beauty, though the broad- 

 leaved claimant is certainly by far the finer, ampler, redder, fluffier, 

 and more brilliant alike in growth and wide loose blossom-shower, 

 instead of the pinched close spike of the other, beset with smaller and 

 darker calyces and bracts. See undor S. Bertoloni. 



S. Ferdinandi Coburgi is a charming neat yellow-flowered and 

 silver-spined little Kabschia, forming neat clumps in any open light 

 soil, limy and well-drained, from which in March rise leafy glandular- 

 haired stems of 4 or 5 inches, breaking out into a loose spray of 

 some eight or ten stalked stars of a virulently brilliant yellow, 

 (l.see) 273 n.— s 



