SAXIFRAGA. 



in its seedlings ; most eminent is the one called Dr. Ramsay, a hybrid 

 with most beautiful neat rosettes of narrower silver leaves, and stiffer 

 upstanding stems, bearing stiffer and much less graceful spikes of 

 larger, fatter, rounder, and less exquisite flowers of the same pure 

 white, but with a constant central ring of much heavier red freckling 

 than in any red-freckled form of the species. This is a quite happy 

 grower and fertile ; its seedlings show every sort of variation in the 

 foliage, and produce, inter alia, most glorious giant Cochlearids. 



S. long i folia. — Crown-royal they call this in Spain, where it abounds 

 on the limestones all through the Pyrenees from the vine-level upwards. 

 It is one of the grandest in the race — for, if it lacks the virginal glory 

 of S. Cotyledon and the inimitable grace of 8. linga.lata, yet the huge 

 silver star-fish rosette splayed tight and hard against the cliffs is superb 

 enough picture hi itself, even without those dominating regal fox- 

 brush spires of white standing stiffly straight out from the face of the 

 rock in a splendour almost oppressive to the beholder. It grows as 

 freely in the garden, hi any fair and open conditions, as the rest of the 

 Euaeizoon group, and shows special gratitude for special fatness in its 

 soil. Having flowered, alas, it seeds and dies, making no offsets ; 

 and, unless it be the only Saxifrage in the garden, hardly one of the 

 hundreds of resulting seedlings will prove true 8. longifolia, though they 

 will all turn out most beautiful and valuable in their several ways, and 

 especially in not possessing their parent's deplorable propensity to die. 

 The form sent out as S. I. hybrida is an excellent type of the perennial 

 increasing-rosetted plants that result from the natural inter-breeding 

 of S. longifolia with other species ; it is smaller in the accumulated 

 rosettes, with similar but diminished spikes. And gardeners now have 

 at command a whole series, 8. longifolia xS. Cotyledon, S. longifolia X 

 S. cochlearis, and so forth, forms raised by nature or art, all precious 

 and immortal, and all so indefinite that only the most special of each 

 should be named, and those only by strictly fancy-titles, not after 

 the style of the so-called S. longifolia « major," which is merely a 

 name applied, at its owner's whim, to any well -grown rosette of the 

 type. 



S.xluteo-purpurea. The only Saxifrage with a right to bear this 

 vr.\. ,1 name, will be found under S. aretioeides. 



S. x luteo-rosea. See S. xGhismusii. 



</• o-virid%8 of some gardens is S. xapiculata, q.v. 



8. luteo-viridis of other gardens is an Aeizoon. 



8. hUeo^oiridis, Schmitt, is a most distinct Engleria with small 

 columnar rosettes of rounded lime-lined leaves ; and leafy stems carry- 

 ing a loose spreading head of tiny yellow flowers in large and glandular 



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