SAXIFRAGA. 



becomes a better nursery for finer things than ever the scattered 

 range of the larger Saxifrages in the Alps can produce. 



S. Bhei, Schott. See under S. moschata. 



S. " Bhei " of nurseries comes into the long line between S. decipiens 

 and S.sponhemica — a most valuable Mossy, well-beloved in every garden, 

 where its soft and paling large pink flowers have yielded by now 

 many other forms of an eclipsing brilliancy of colour, yet unable to 

 surpass their parent in gentle charm. For some names, see under 

 S. decipiens, that justly-named yet pardonable Proteus. 



S. rigescens is a small Trachyphyllum of especial charm, with neat 

 green tufts of foliage, and brown flower-stems of -4 inches or so, 

 carrying sprays of a few especially large and well-rounded blossoms of 

 pure and brilliant snow-white, having more the appearance of an 

 Aeizoon spike. It is of hearty habit, and flowers hi May. 



S. Rigoi is a specially free-growing bud-bearing species that may 

 best be described as an enlarged and improved version of S. globulifera, 

 with much finer flowers, two or three to a stem, and as large as those of 

 S. aquatica. 



S. rivularis may very rarely be seen by stream-sides far in the 

 Scotch highlands. It is a valueless and difficult weedlet, like a 

 weakly, diminished, and quite inferior tiny-flowered form of S. cernua. 



S. rocheliana=S. marginata, q.v. 



S. rotundifolia is now considered the whole of the Miscopetaluin 

 group. It is that abundant Saxifrage of the damp alpine woods 

 and stream-sides, with ample rather fleshy -green kidney-shaped lobed 

 leaves on long stalks, and ample leafy branching pyramids of 2 feet 

 high or less, with sprayed clouds of pink-freckled white stars, with 

 white anthers and sepals that never reflex (these two last qualities 

 serving at a glance, among many others, to distinguish it from all the 

 London Prides). It is universal throughout the Alps, and has taken 

 many forms., some of which have often been treated as species. Two 

 of these are S. chrysos pie n 'folia and S. heucherifolia. q.v. S. r. repanda 

 is by some held a synonym of S. r. chrysosplenifolia, and by others 

 separated on account of the white hairs that clothe the leaves. S. r. 

 glandulosa {S. Heujfellii, Schott ; S. angulosa, Schott ; 8. lasiophylla, 

 Schott) is specially tall and specially branching and specially glandular 

 with hairs. S. r.fonticola, on the other hand, is small and neat and 

 very pretty, quite hairless and with densely-spotted flowers in few- 

 flowered sprays, the laterals always overtopping the central one. 

 And there are two plants sometimes sent out as S. " graecu," and S. 

 rhodopea, both of which appear to be forms of S. rotundifolia — in all 

 its varieties an easy and delightful summer-bloomer, for cool places, 



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