SAXIFRAGA. 



slender, branching into a spray of stars like those of 8. caesia, but 

 rather larger, and of a soft buttery-yellow or beaten-egg colour. It 

 is a most dainty lovely little thing, quite as easy to grow in the choice 

 bed or moraine as 8. mesia, which, colour and relaxation and greenness 

 and enlarged habit apart, it much more nearly resembles. 



8. x Paulinae, to my thinking, stands high at the head of all the 

 yellow-flowered Burseriana group, wiping out even 8. x Faldonside. 

 It is the result of correcting, instead of confirming, the faults of 

 8. Ferdinandi Coburgi, with the influence of 8. Burseriana. It has 

 the cushions and white-powdered look at the base of the spiny spread- 

 ing res ette-leaves so chars of 8. Ferdinandi Coburgi. From the 

 cushions, however, spring many s ems of 2 or 3 inches, very leafy, 

 and carrying several royally large and rounded flowers of the noblest 

 clear-yellow, beautifully contrasting with the bluish cushion below and 

 the tinges of glandular redness here and there among the overlapping 

 leaves on the stem. It is a most hearty thriving delight in the con- 

 ditions that suit the finer Kabschias. 



8. x pectinata is the natural hybrid of 8. aeizoon and S. incrustata. 

 In flower it has the faults of both parents, for the blossoms on their 

 6-inch spikes are dowdy and stodgy and creamy ; but the foliage is 

 really handsome, elongating the dark leathern glossy leaves of 

 S. incrustata, as flat but narrower, with a conspicuous (but not so 

 conspicuous) beading ; and with saw-edged scallopings along the 

 rim that become acute teeth at the end of the leaf, after the fashion 

 of the Aeizoons. It is as easy as the rest. 



S. pedatijida stands as one of the best among the large cushion- 

 massing Mossies. It is amazingly free, alike in growth and in flower, 

 the blossoms being full goblets of pure-white, gathered in erect and 

 rather close trusses of eight or ten. The leaves are on long stalks, 

 fringed with soft hairs; the blade, you will see, is cut mto three lobes, and 

 the two laterals of these again are very deeply cut into two more, so 

 that the leaf has a five-clawed look, all their tips being sJiarp and 

 narrow, and each starting well apart from the other, and all pointed and 

 undivided, giving the characteristic look from which the species has its 

 name. No part of this plant is at all aromatic. 



8. pedemontana is a widely variable Mossy of the highest rank, but 

 far too rare in gardens, where, however, it grows and continues and 

 flowers with the utmost ease in any light rich soil in sun or shade. In 

 nature it is a species of the Southern granites, extremely rare in the 

 Binnthal and the Monte Rosa district, but becoming much more 

 frequent as you come South, till, on the high and low granites of the 

 Maritime Alps, it is no less massive in the woodland stone-slides about 



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