SAXIFRAGE 



pedicelled white flowers with the calyx-lobes rounder and larger than 

 in the rest. 



S. p. incudinensis also belongs to the Corsican summits. This 

 makes tight and flat massed tuffets, like those of 8. p. minor, but the 

 Leaves are smaller, with lobes shorter and fatter, the whole being 

 much more glandular-downy, almost running to a little soft beard 

 at the tip of each lobe. The stems, too, are beset with fine and soft 

 curling hairiness. And no doubt there are other and many inter- 

 grading forms, of which S. p. aromatica, as grown at Edinburgh, is 

 notable for the dwarf stems and the freedom of the ample white flowers, 

 to say nothing of the dense sticky sweetness in which the whole mat 

 is embalmed, diffusing a warm fragrance in the sunshine that calls 

 up all one's memories of the scented South. 



S. p. minor is a common form, of less stature and more compact 

 growth than S. p. Baldaccii, the type. 



Uata stands alone in its section, and there will be found de- 

 scribed. It is a most superb species., alike in growth and flower, and 

 grows by the yard, with huge wrinkly rhizomes like the trunk of a 

 baby elephant, creeping tightly over stone and soil by the side of 

 water — and, indeed, almost anywhere. The great wide heads of large 

 pink stars come up on their bristled pink stems of 2 or 3 feet in 

 early spring, and then their place becomes a jungle of vast shield- 

 shaped leaves in summer, like limp notch-edged unholy Lotus-leaves 

 of bright rough green, a foot across, on stems of a yard and more, so 

 tall and wild that a Monmouth might hide beneath their waving 

 tangles if occasion called. 



S. pennsyhanica is an American Boraphila, large and coarse and 

 undeserving, with tall stout -branched stems of miserably narrow- 

 petalled lemon-coloured little stars. It is sometimes grown as 

 S. caroliniana, or as S. marilandica ; to say nothing of the fact that 

 several of its many variations have received varietal names, as S. p. 

 conglomerata. corymbifera, semipubescens, an embarrassment of choice 

 indeed, in the case of a dowdy wild-garden weed that is not worth 

 choosing at all. 



8. pentada-ctylis is yet another of the Mossies which is often offered 

 and never seen true. It is a small la wn -forming mass, and may always 

 be known at a glance, for it ia perfectly hairless and bright green, but 

 covered all over with a sticky and aromatic exudation. The little 

 leaves are thick, set on grooved stalks, and deeply cut into three lobes 

 of which the two laterals are again deeply divided, so that the five- 

 fingered, outspread foliage, blunt-tipped and beardless, is exactly 

 characteristic of the one species that bears the name by right. The 



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