SAXIFRAGA. 



outspread grey-and-silver leaves, and their rounded beading, clearly 

 distinguish S. Hostii among its kin. In the garden it is as vigorous 

 everywhere as it is at home. 



8. Huettiana has the foliage of S. hederacea and the yellow stars of 

 S. Cymhalaria ; it may be a hybrid between the two. and comes from 

 damp cool rocks of Trebizond and Lazic Pontus, where, however, the 

 supposed parents are not found together. 



5. hypnoeides is nominis umbra, a vast race, everywhere growing 

 and everywhere varying and developing into forms so marked that 

 they become separate races, running a long gamut through S. spo)i- 

 hemica and S. decipiens, towards S. caespitosa. The only distinction 

 that anchors the name to any special plant is that the typical S. 

 hypnoeides. the type of all the Mossies. gathers its foliage in the axils 

 along the stems and at their tips into oval bulbous-looking gem-balls. 

 Other characters are the very fine three- to five-cleft leaves on long 

 stalks, with the narrow more or less fringed strips standing apart and 

 ending in a bristle. But at this point the species passes into cloud, 

 and one cushion will yield almost as many variant developments as it 

 has shoots. It is a universally-diffused Saxifrage, and its large cream- 

 white stars drooping in the bud dance delicately in June over the huge 

 mossy masses on delicate fine stems of 9 inches or so. There are, 

 however, a few marked forms, usually often sent out by catalogues 

 as species ; among them these : 



S. hyp. cantabrica has specially pointed sepals and smaller flowers 

 than the type. 



<S. hyp. densa. — This is really a charming and delightful dwarf, 

 small and close and tight in the very fine-leaved lawn, which is, and 

 remains, of the most brilliant emerald-green throughout the year ; and 

 profuse in June, of creamy flowers on stems of 4 or 5 inches. This 

 form is prevalent on the high limestones of Ingleborough, but always 

 keeps its concision of character in the garden. 



S. hyp. Kingii is also quite dwarf in a sheet, with downward- 

 curving runners bearing little three-cleft leaves, and axillary gem- 

 buds. In autumn the whole mat goes of a marked reddish tone, and 

 is surpassed, as a neat carpet, by nothing short of S. moschata in its 

 closer developments. The flower-stems are none too numerous, and 

 about 4 inches high, carrying four or five white blossoms, pink-tipped 

 in the bud. Xurseries often send this out as S. exarata minor, and 

 S. " planipetala." 



S. hyp. Whitlavei keeps much the same characters as S. hyp. Kingii, 

 but is not so dwarf nor so close in the carpet, and does not redden in 

 whiter. On the other hand, it is much freer with its flower-stems, and 



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