SAXTFRAGA. 



growing plant intermedial parents, the leaves having the 



r and leathery niak I tyledon's, with the typical toothed 



mar;i many from the massed larger 



rosettes, red and ha branching from near the base., with the 



bran ;rom the axil of a conspicuous leaf, and ending 



in a truss of spotted flowers. A readily thriving commonplace in 

 any open conditions. 



8. geranioeides. — A quick and ample woody grower, one of the 



delightful among the Iffossies, .strongly sweet-scented, and with 

 snow-white flowers narrow-petalled and never expanded widely, 

 closely set in rather tight clusters at the top of 6- or 8-inch stems. 

 The foliage is most variable alike in texture., lobing and surface. The 

 - always have long leafstalks that .sheathe the base of 

 tnd they are three-cleft, with all the segments (and especially 

 the laterals) gashed again into more segments, that may be broad or 

 narrow, blunt or pointed, many variations being found on the same 

 tuft. They are usually leathery in texture, but sometimes thinner, 

 and may be hairy with glands, or else hairless and sticky. It is, 

 however, easy to re _ the port of the half-opened flowers and 



general appearance, but, above all, by the long and very narrow segments 

 of the calyx. Many pretenders to the name, however, go forth in 

 catalogues. There is also a variety, 8. g. ladanifera, which is even more 

 strongly aromatic than the type, with the surfaces of the leaves 

 varnished with a coat of scented exudation. 8. ladanifera, Lapeyr, is 

 now claimed in Spain as a chimsera of hybrids round S. geranioeides, 

 so that almost anything Geranioid may turn up u: ; der this name. 



a the London Pride with rounded scalloped leaves standing 

 on long foot-stalks, instead of diminishing gradually to the base as 

 in the ordinary 8. umbrosa. All of this Robertsonia group are common 

 in damp cool alpine and sub-alpine places, extending to England and 

 the West of Ireland. 8. Q has many varieties — 8. G. crenulata, with 

 leavi r pb" toothed, but scalloped ; 8. G. dentata, with the 



ing specially sharp and the leaf specially round (8. G. gracilis is 

 no more than this : 8. G. rsuta, a very hairy form ; S. G. ovalifolia, 

 with more oval foliage ; 8. G. polita, quite smooth and shining ; S. G. 

 elegans has leaves more wedge-shap d and scalloped round their upper 



and there is also a heaped miniature, S. G. cochlear folia. Of 

 hybi there are 8. G. repanda [8. GeumxS. rotundifolia), 



with large lobed, wavy-edged big round, leaves, and 8. G. glacialis (S. 

 ' • y.uml with hairy intermediate foliage, free in growth, but 



lid in shoot and flower that it seems hard to understand 

 why a name so promising should have been attached to a plant so 



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