SAXTFRAGA. 



and then tall bare woolly stems of a foot high and more, ending in a 

 leafy spike of huddled greenish -purple dinginesses. 



8. H ids its group, and in its best form sometimes (called 



S. H. major) is an admirable and profuse and easy doer for moist 

 and c - in the rock-garden in sun (if water is abundant) or else 



in shade, where it may have room to form into wide tufts of bright 

 oblong -narrow, undivided leafage, from which proceed many 

 6 inches and more through mid and late summer, carrying 

 a number of erect large flowers of bright gold, freckled with orange. 

 The stems are set with narrowed leaves, and the species can always 

 be told by the imperial of long dark hairs that it wears at the base of 

 each flower-pedicel, where it leaves the stem. S. Hirculus is almost 

 universal all over Northern Europe and alpine Asia, extending into 



B tnd, where it is now extremely rare in some of the Teesdale bogs. 

 In cultivation the type is distinctly as difficult, impermanent, and miiry, 

 as the much more brilliant major-form is easy, immortal, and robust. 

 This should be the one always sought for ; it is the thing often sent 

 out by nurseries under the name of 8. diversifolia. 



8. hirsute is a form of S. ligulata. 



S. hirta. See under S. decipiem. 



8. hi&pidula. — As difficult as all the other wiry-stemmed Asiatic 

 Trachyphyllums, with stiff elliptic leaves along most delicate dark 

 stems that each end in one yellow flower whose smallness amply 

 consoles us for the rarity and capriciousness of the species. 



8. Hostii suffers in gardens from the splendour of the countless 

 primary, secondary, and tertiary* hybrids in which it has taken a hand 

 with 8. neizoon and 8. Cotyledon. It ultimately sinks into obscurity 

 and is no more to be known. On the Alps, however, it is very re- 

 cognisable, and a plant of growing attractiveness, forming wide 

 flattened masses of large flattish silver rosettes. The grey-green 

 leathern leaves are broadly strap-shaped, blunt, and silver-beaded along 

 a characteristic margin of rounded toothing. The stems are about a 

 foot high, green and rather glandular, sometimes streaked with red; 

 they branch towards their top, shortly and sparingly, carrying large and 

 full-faced flowers of creamy white, sometimes more or less marked with 

 red frecklings. It may be seen on the high limestones of the Southern 

 and Eastern ranges, as for instance in enormous abundance of 

 -nous cushions among Primula glaucescens in the cool rocky 

 plac' mong the brushwood by the Capanna Monza 



on the Grigna. do Less than on almost all the cliffs at mid-elevations 

 of the mountain, not seeming to i b end Into any position of rivalry 

 with 8. Vandd [tc /■■. its flattened mass, the blindness of its 



