SAXIFRAGA. 



but very slightly below the tip, of dark clear iron grey deeply grooved. 



muscular and wiry rather than fleshy in texture, with a brilliant 



gin I beading in the way of a toothing. These form into no 



te, but break into complicated tangled cushions, from which they 



. p and stand out in every u 1 ■ it ion like those of a gigantic electrified 



.S'. parad^ra gone mad ; the flower-stems, yellowish or reddened, are 



glandular at all in the type. Th>. however, varies, though hardly 



oexal configuration, the characteristics of the cushion and the 



laming astonishu.gi . b, considering that seedlings 



_ ishable from those of the next form. The plant, 



ver, should be seen and collected in flower ; for there are many 



individuals of creamier and narrower petals than the ample snowy 



splendours of the best — even if the creamy note be the result of ferti- 



1 Nation, when the whole . pire and the flowers tend to become rather 



- y and floppety and decadent as they die. As in 8. Cotyledon, the 



flowered shoot passes away, but the cushion only grows wider year by 



with more and more towsled masses of fresh dark foliage, until 



in the end it grows so big that one tuft is one man's burden — a 



bulk like a bolster. On the Col de Pesio it occurs with S. aeizoon, 



and " .ve there resulted, magnified but not purified 



r and narrower foliage displayed in a neat regular 



■ .rnamental rosette. The ivpe S. lingulata Bettardii hud remained 



so long and so strangely neglected in the garden (where it is one of the 



heartiest and freest growers of the race), that it has not yet had time 



to yield us offspring ; but, both with 8. Cotyledon and S. longifolia it 



ought in time to yield some lovely things, contributing the added 



.iar beauty of its leafage, and the solid snowy purity of the flower. 



r its only worthy wild hybrid has been but glimpsed ; this is the 



,S'. BeUardiixS. cocJdearis cross of which one clump was seen in the 



above Briga, and which will be found treated under S. cochlearis. 



■i is a Spanish plant by now usually allowed specific 



rank, but, as it belongs to this kindred in beauty, it may continue to 



r here, though broader in the leaf than the rest, and approaching 



more in style to a great and graceful 8. aeizoon. with pure-white flowers 



sometimes more or less spotted with I 



lanto8cana is a firm and definite divergence of the type which 



It does occur, but very rarely, 



with 8. /. Bettardii in th< y, but abounds exclusively farther 



in the limestone gorges of the Var and the Vesubie, always local, 



but most abundant c it occurs, and showing a much more 



reference for cool and shady exposun - than you will find in 



8. 1. B aough it i- ig to note that the whole Lingulata 



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