SAXIFRAGA. 



calyx-segments. The couinionest name for this in gardens, where it 

 grows with the rampancy of 8. hypnoeides, is S. " ceratophylla " (q.v.), 

 which it isn't. 



8. sedoeides is a difficult and quite worthless small high-alpine, 

 forming lawns of tiny packed green leaves, acutely narrow, undivided, 

 and fringed with fine hair at the edge, scattered in long divergent 

 shoots above a mass of dead leafage in coarse clusters. The little 

 stems are very frail, about an inch high, carrying from one to five 

 minute and feeble spindly stars of greenish-yellow. No other species 

 resembles this weakly thin high-alpine of the limestone ranges, 

 like a delicate Pol3 T trichum, slack and frail and minute, but not in 

 the least like any Sedum ever seen. It is a plant that no treatment 

 satisfies, and no gardener desires. There is also a variety with purple 

 flowers, called S. s. Hohenwartii ; and the typical species was long 

 cultivated as 8. aretioeides, a brilliancy with which it has no more 

 relationship than Jane Eyre with Jane Austen. 



8. Seguieri is yet another little high-alpine dowd of no deserts, 

 but this time resembling a miniature form of 8. androsacea, with tiny 

 leaves, more or less fringed, narrowly spoon-shaped and always un- 

 divided, arranged in dense cushions from which spring flower-stems of 

 less than 2 inches bearing some one to three feeble yellowish stars, with 

 the petals hardly as long as the sepals. It likes the uppermost peat- 

 beds in stony places by the melting snow, but is a thing to recognise 

 by this description and pass gladly by. 



8. Sendtneri. See S. aeizoon cartilaginea. 



8. serpyllifolia, on the other hand, may be much longed for, and, 

 when acquired, cultivated with reverence in the choicest underground- 

 watered bed among the choicest gems. For (unlike S. diapensioeides) 

 it is, in habit, domed tuffet, leaf, and white large flowers alone on little 

 bare stems of an inch or so, an exact repetition of Diapensia lapponica, 

 hailing from the same situations in the Siberian Altai and Northern 

 America. 



S. serratifolia. See under 8. umbrosa. 



S. sibirica is a Nephrophylluni that gives us pause. It has the 

 habit of Adoxa moschaiellina or Romanzqffia sitchensis ; a frail small 

 species with weakly and often flopping stems rising from tufts of 

 brilliantly green ivy-skaped leaves on long white stalks, with large 

 white blossoms, slightly drooping, on fine stems in fine sprays. S. 

 sibirica has a delicate daintiness of charm, and in reasonable con- 

 ditions of good well-drained soil, hi cool and duly- watered position in 

 shaded aspect, is as easy to grow as it is hard to come by. 



8. Sibthorpii, Boiss. and Sprun., is one of the best among the 



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