SAXIFRAGA. 



The leafy small glandular-hairy stems are not stalwart, and carry a loose 

 head of flowers on rather long foot-stalks. The blossoms are as dowdy 

 as in S. juniper if olia, often deficient in a petal or two, with the same 

 wildly-protruding stamens and in the same tone of dull obliterated 

 yellow. It belongs to the sheer cliffs of the Cilician Taurus, and there 

 might well be left in peace. 



S. Kotschyi of gardens (8. pseudo-Kotschyi) is quite a different thing, 

 but hardly more worth growing. It is a small neat Kabschia, making 

 mounded mats of hard-pressed rounded little foliage, hard and leathery, 

 of light grey-green with a silvered edge. The spikes are 2 or 3 inches 

 high, carrying a loose head of pale-yellow flowers, which, though thin 

 and starry in outline, are far better than in the true species, which 

 stands close to S. juniperifolia, as does the false to an inferior yellow- 

 flowered form of S. marginata. 



S. x Kyrillii. — This beautiful hybrid represents the reverse cross 

 to that which produced 8. x Borisii ; it is the child of 8. marginata by 

 8. Ferdinandi Coburgi. The cushions are ample and erect-spined and 

 very blue-grey, with the leaves rather broader than in the other ; the 

 stems are many and rather tall for the tuft, attaining to 4 or 5 inches, 

 diverging into wide and distinct-stemmed branches, bearing large and 

 ample blossoms of a lovely clear citron-yellow — 8. marginata having 

 cleansed, with its purity, the shrill viciousness of the other parent's 

 colour, and filled in, out of its own abundance, the thin outlines of the 

 other parent's petals ; so that the result is perhaps the handsomest 

 of the taller-growing yellow-flowered Kabschias, of which it is also one 

 of the freest and easiest in growth. 



S. labradorica. See under 8. aeizoon. 



8. laeta is S. aeizoon intacta, q.v. 



8. laevis of gardens is an indistinct and uninteresting form of 

 8. decipiens. 



8. laevis, Bieb., is a rare Caucasian Kabschia like nothing else in 

 the race, forming tufts of loose branches suggestive almost of a young 

 and dark-green glossy S. oppositifolia at a first rough glance, with stiff 

 concave little obovate leaves of deep shining emerald, narrowly edged 

 with cartilage, and with a bristle at their ends ; the flowers sit huddled, 

 three or four together, at the end of quite short shoots. They are 

 yellow, but their principal effect is produced by absurdly long and 

 spidery stamens, standing out this way and that till the whole head 

 has the effect of a loose fluff of gold. It is not a difficult species to 

 grow in the choice moraine or bed, but not one, apart from its variety 

 and singularity, of any outstanding charm. 



8. lantoscana. See S. lingulata. 



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