SAXIFRAGA. 



the subsequent bathos of the flowers. And it must be remembered 

 that these are not fairly to be judged by collected plants, miserable 

 and sulky from removal, with all their hard and glossy leaves now gone 

 limp and dull and dishevelled as an unkempt wig, sending up the 

 flower-spike in a last pathetic fury of despair. But that same spike, 

 a fox-brush of 18 inches, stiff and regal from the regal glossy disk of 

 the dark rosette, would tell a very different tale of flower and colour 

 in their normally developed force and amplitude 



S. Forbesii is an American woodland species of the Boraphila 

 group, more worth admitting than many, perhaps, to cool corners of 

 the garden, as its flowers are said to be pure-white, instead of dingy 

 greenish-white, borne on stems of 2 or 4 feet high. 



S. Forrestii is a new Chinese species of the Bergenia group. 



8. Forsteri of gardens may mean anything that the gardener chooses. 

 One false form is a hybrid, probably, of S. aeizoon and S. cuneifolia, 

 that is to say, the same thing as 8. x Zimmeteri, or closely akin, a most 

 choice and delicate small cross with neat rosettes, and very dainty 

 little sprays of white stars on stems of 3 inches. A quite coarse 

 secondary Aeizoon also sometimes goes out under the name. 



8. x Forsteri, true, is a hybrid of 8. caesia and 8. mutata, requiring 

 care in limy soil (or moraine) and a choice open place. It is a little 

 fine clump of delicate charm, with the flowers of 8. caesia deepened into 

 creamy and buttery tones by the influence of 8. mutata, which, how- 

 ever, is not the dominant parent, so that the hybrid has a daintiness 

 closely resembling that of S. patens, suggesting a loose and butter- 

 coloured 8. caesia. 



S. Fortunei takes us far to China, a species of prized beauty for a 

 well-sheltered corner, where autumn is not like to hurt the noble 

 foot-high star-showers of pure-white uneven-rayed blossoms that 

 appear on their fleshy branching stems in October and November, 

 carried well above the stalked great glossy-fleshy foliage of brilliant 

 green, cut at the edges into about seven sharp lobes. It belongs to 

 the Diptera group, and has the characteristic short rhizomes sending 

 up the leaves and the flower-stems. It thrives quite easily and hardily 

 in rich soil, but must not be looked on as an indestructibly safe plant 

 in cold or raw situations. 



8. Frederici-Augusti of labels is 8. Federici-Augusti, q.v. 



8. fusca. — A large Boraphila-Saxifrage with kidney-shaped, deep 

 toothed leaves on long footstalks, and a foot-high flower-stem, stiff 

 and stout and ending in a branched dense mass of small brown 

 blossoms. 



8. x Gaudinii is a hybrid of S. aeizoon and 8. cotyledon, a stalwart- 



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