SAXIFRAGA. 



S. xLapeyrousei, Don. See under S. aretioeides. 



8. latepetiolata grows with S. Cossoniana on the summits of the 

 de Chiva, where, however, it is very rare, and differs in bearing 

 no gem-buds, but forms a huddle of shoots, beset with ashy-grey 

 folia ge. 



8. 1'it'JJora stands near 8. Hirculus, and is a much finer plant than 



8. dicers if alia. The stalked lower leaves are oblong and fringed with 



hair, smaller than those that stud the glandular-downy stems of some 



6 or 8 inches, carrying some one to three large flower3 of brilliant gold. 



a marsh-species of high-alpine Sikkim. 



S. latino, . See under S. oppositifolia. 



S. hucantlicmi folia represents in America the stout and ugly 

 8. Clusii of Europe, and, like all these big Boraphila Saxifrages, is not 

 worthy of much attention. 



S. ligulata is a beautiful Bergenia, with the great leaves fringed at 

 the edge, smooth flower-stems, and bright whito or pink-tinged flowers 

 erect when expanded. These characters continue to show in the cross- 

 breeds that it produces with others of the section. Unfortunately the 

 plant always blooms too early to escape the hand of the frost, and its 

 offspring share the same fatal precocity. In nurseries it has usually 

 been transposed with S. Stracheyi, which has hairy flower-pedicels and 

 leaf-surfaces always smooth, and is, perhaps, the hardiest and best of 

 all the species for the garden. S. ligulata has a variety, S. I. ciliata, 

 which shares its vices ; and so does even its hybrid with S. crassi- 

 folia, S. X speciosa, which is too often nipped untimely by the chills of 

 spring. S. ligulata, accordingly, and its hybrids, should be used especi- 

 ally for greenhouse work, where their huge green foliage shows off 

 undamaged, and their contrasted beauty of red stems and red buds 

 with the noble close sprays of big pearl-white flowers achieve their 

 effect unspoiled. 



S. lilacina brings us from the Himalaya one of the loveliest of all 

 our choice Kabschias. It is as close and scabbed in growth as a lichen, 

 suggesting perhaps tho habit of a microscopic 8. marginata, or, again, 

 a fattened, flattened S. caesia. From this tuffet, lonely on elongating 

 ' ems of 2 inches or so, spring (in the early year) a number of largo wido 

 cups of clear lavender-lilac, with a deeper tone at their eye, and of the 

 in' -t strange and sumptuous loveliness. It is of no difficulty in culti- 

 vation, in the conditions that suit the choicest jewels in its group ; and 

 to do a good deal of its growing in late autumn and winter. 



8. lingulata is a typo, not a species. That type is, perhaps, the most 

 generally beautiful of tho Euaoizoon group, pre-eminent in purity and 

 grace. Tho race is Southern and calcicole, being found on the limc- 



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