SAXIFRAGA. 



regrets again the use, as parents, of two species so combining the same 

 faults of starriness and shrill colour, as 8. sancta and 8. Ferdinandi- 

 Coburgi, each of which is well capable of collaborating in a far better 

 thing, but requires to be improved, not to have its native vices con- 

 firmed and doubled. S.xHaagii grows readily enough in any choice 

 place, and looks well in the moraine. 



S. Haenseleri is a rare and handsome Nephrophyllum from the 

 Spanish Alps, making rosettes, neat and tidy, of short-stalked, wedge- 

 shaped leaves cloven into three or five lobes, and with bulbils nestling 

 at tho base of each. The whole clump is densely glandular and sticky, 

 and the flowers are large and white, borne in a stately little branching 

 candelabrum of a few inches. 



8. x Haussmannii is a hybrid of 8. mutata X 8. aeizoeides. The forms 

 of the cross fluctuate between the two parents according to their re- 

 spective responsibility, and the other extreme is known as 8. Regelii. 

 S. mutata, belonging to the Euacizoons, has close affinity with 8. aei- 

 zoeides among the Trachyphyllums ; they both are often found together, 

 and the result of their union is that it is by no means uncommon to 

 collect a seedling rosette of S. mutata in the Southern limestones, and 

 for it ultimately to send up a much slighter spike of much larger, though 

 hardly less starry-pointed orange-copper flowers, which have indeed 

 the effect of blossoms from a starved 8. aeizoeides pinned into a 

 youthful stem of S. mutata. This is S. x Haussmanni, which seems 

 monocarpic, as 8. mutata ; S. X Regelii (looser and smaller, and alto- 

 gether approaching to 8. aeizoeides, though with a reminiscence of 

 8. mutata s spikes) has much more of the habit of a permanent 8. 

 aeizoeides, forming into loose tumbled masses of small rosettes. Their 

 culture is easy in cool damp places of limy soil. 



8. hederacea is a small annual Cymbalaria, with bright green rather 

 fleshy foliage like that of the Toad-flax. It may be known among all 

 its kin by the abundant stars which are white instead of golden. 

 Damp places, from Sicily to Asia Minor. 



S. hedraeantha is yet another name for S. porophylla. 



8. Hervierii is a little annual Nephrophyllum from Spain, with red 

 glandular stems and nodding white cups. It has neither bulbils nor 

 beauty. 



S. heucherifolia differs only, if validly, from 8. rotundifolia in having 

 its stems inclining to be smooth below, and not purple-spotted. 



S. hieraciifolia lives in damp woody places of almost all Europe 

 and America, our only alpine representative of a section prevalent 

 in the woods of the Now World. It is easy to grow in cool shady 

 comers ; and very ugly, with ample stalked leathery foliage in rosettes, 



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