SAXIFRAGA. 



8. incudinensis. See under S. pedemontana. 



S. integrifolia is another ugly Boraphila from America, not horti- 

 culturally to be distinguished from 8. erosa and 8. pennsylvanica, but 

 included in the same condemnation, or else in the same wild garden if 

 you be sufficiently charitable and catholic. 



8. intricata stands quite close to 8. exarata, q.v. It can, however, 

 be easily known apart, not only by its weaklier and rather sticky 

 stems, but by the dark-green colouring of the little rosettes, and the pure 

 milk-white tone of the flowers. It is endemic to high and non-calcareous 

 rocks at medium elevations in the Central Pyrenees. 



8. iratiana (a form of 8. mixta, q.v.) is a small Spanish Mossy 

 forming very dense but not woody-stocked carpets of bright green 

 downy sticky foliage, accumulating in columns of dead at the base 

 of each shoot. The tiny leaves are closely overlapping, and cut into 

 three or five swelling lobes, more or less pointed ; there are one or two 

 on the 2- to 3-inch stems, and the small white flowers are specially 

 numerous, gathered round in a leafy head. It is indifferent to the 

 rock it grows on, and is peculiar to the Pyrenees — a neat attractive 

 little species of easy habit. 



S. irrigua appears very commonly in catalogues, and very rarely 

 in fact, 8. aquatica being usually treated as the same thing on account 

 of the name (even if it be the true 8. aquatica that is sent out — an 

 infrequent occurrence). S. irrigua is an annual, and a Nephrophyllum, 

 making rosettes of handsome buttercup-like leafage, softly hairy all 

 over, and on long stalks. Among these ascend the flower-stems, freely 

 branching, and carrying large white blossoms, particularly effective 

 in their snowiness against the dusk of the foliage. By an odd instinct 

 of appropriateness its general effect recalls 8. aquatica in the Mossy 

 Section, with which it is so often confused. 



S. J acquemontiana comes from high Sikkim, and has golden flowers 

 sitting almost stemless over cushions of tiny leaves glabrous below, 

 but with a certain amount of glandular pubescence on the upper ones. 



8. x Jaeggeana is an attractive hybrid, clearly owning the influence 

 of S. marginata, with tumbled masses of rather larger-leaved looser 

 rosettes of rounded leathery foliage, beautifully edged with silver ; and 

 fine white flowers of notable amplitude and brilliance, gathered in 

 loose heads on stems of 2 or 3 inches. An easy grower, but suggests 

 an inheritance from 8. scardica in its habit of dying off brown in patches. 



8. Jamesii is a purple Boykinia of some 9 inches from America, 

 for a cool shady place. 



8. juniperifolia often goes out as 8. juniperina. The error may be 

 condoned only because the plant usually so sent out is almost always 



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