SAXIFRAGA. 



pale-green calyces. See S. corymbosa for its picture ; but here the 

 leaves are rounder and fuller. 



8. Lychnitis is a large-flowered glandular-stemmed Hirculus from 

 the highest Alps of Sikkim, forming tightly dense tuffets, constellated 

 with brilliant golden stars. It stands close to S. cordigera. 



8. macedonica does not apparently differ from S. pseudo-sancta (q.v.) 

 except that the flowers are fewer, with broader yellow petals and often 

 five veins instead of three. 



S. Macnabiana. — This name has no owner. It is applied to a largo 

 number of intermediate Euaeizoons, all of ample stature and pyramidal 

 inflorescence above rosettes of broadish strap-shaped leaves. The 

 flowers should have oval, clear-white petals more or less spotted with 

 bright red. In one form the spotting is dense and heavy, more so than 

 in 8. aeizoon balcana, with bigger blossoms and sturdier spike ; in 

 another, the best of all and the rarest, and the only true 8. x Mac- 

 nabiana, the rosette is smaller, and the constitution less certain, and 

 the red-spotting coalesces into a crimson eye. And there are many 

 other forms bearing the name — one a splendid and graceful secondary 

 of 8. Cotyledon, with ample spires of clear snow-white, gracefully -bomo 

 flowers, delicately spotted ; and another a stout and useful secondary 

 Aeizoon, stalwart and robust, with fat stars of creamy tinge, freckled 

 with pink. In fact, when in doubt, the gardener says " 8. Macnab- 

 iana "to every sturdy Euaeizoon hybrid, even to the third and fourth 

 generation ; but the title originally belongs to the red-rimmed beauty, 

 which was a chance seedling, of unknown history, but probably a child 

 of S. Cotyledon by S. Hostii, having the habit of the former and the 

 inflorescence of the latter, but amplified. In reality this is an improved 

 form of the thing so ridiculously known as S. nepalensis — when this 

 last preposterous name is not represented by pure S. Cotyledon. 



S. maderensis is a Mossy, once common, and now vanished. It is 

 hairless and aromatic, with characteristic long-stalked, kidney-shaped 

 leaves, merely lobed and notched all round ; with large spraying panicles 

 of white flowers on widely diverging branches. Its doubtful hardiness 

 (seeing that it comes from Madeira) may account for its eclipse. 



S. madida comes too rarely from Japan. It is a larger, stouter, 

 fuller, more profusely-flowering version of S. cortusaefolia, with moro 

 bluntly-lobed leaves, and hairy all over. 



8. Malyi of some gardens is 8. Xapiculata, q.v. 



S. Malyi of other gardens is 8. aeizoon major, q.v. 



8. manshuriensis is a rather beautiful pink-flowered novelty closely 

 allied to S. Geum and 8. umbrosa — in fact a glorified London Pride 

 of rosier bloom. 



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