SAXIFRAGA. 



round the edge. From this arises a number of pale stems, very tall 

 for this group, about 5 or 6 inches high, carrying a quite characteristic 

 bunch ot white vase-shaped flowers in a I rued 



cluster that somehow gives the effect of not belonging to a Saxifrage 

 at all. but to some lax-headed Crucifer with blossoms of g 

 borne in a scattered flattish head, instead of in the spike, tight or 

 showery, or in the branching sprays, more usually characteristic 

 of Saxifraga. The foliag . unusually pretty, even among the 



g made up of those broad-pointed grey-and-silver 

 leaves, arranged in n ..ard and rather flattened tight ros 



on limestone high u] jhessalian 



Olympus, and also on Scardus, where it grows in such close com- 

 munion with th /.eria called .S'. ' with 

 spike m red bracts on red spikes, that imported clumps 

 of the one are a b] contain fragments of the i picion 

 _■ raised as to the hybrid origin of the red 8. ailed 

 fthrantha, q.v. In cultivation this beautiful Kabschia, rather 

 later in flower than 3sful in 

 calcareous . ..an open and well-drained place, perhaps 

 disliking extremities of sun-heat, unless the water-supply below be 

 Ially well i for the plant's one fault in cultivation is its 

 .. y *o die off brown in patches if excessively sunburned or 

 other - ased. 



8.8ci - : 6 ligrdata. 



>./ 8 "'.:"'' Siind rmann) is a hybrid, akin to 8. 



-. Federici-.: I: Ls the handsomer 



of the two, and one of the fined rosy Engl :ias. 



Stem a notably free-growing and free-flowering 



nd, through the five-fingered 

 form of this, making a link v. ith 8. A aromatic — a 



most important point, d ng it from some developments of 



■'areata., which i it might mble ; and 



ano*.i. A the stems of the leaves have a / 



of hairs. Thee remove it from all the invariably 



aromatic forms of 8. geranioei h are also universally ha 



and universally sticky. -talked leaves of 8. Schroder i are 



smooth and bright dark-green, on < i y are first of all 



divided inl and then all the lol r may not be, again 



'tow dive:_ Ing of 



the middle Us. _ g it at once from every form i 



pedatifida. He nV. ;nd large, borne on long free- 



branched i prays, with long petals and very narrow-pointed 



