vWIFRAGA. 



annual Cymbalaria Saxifrage-. It makes a neat and perfectly hairless 

 tuft of small and rather fleshy kidney-shaped leaves, bright -green and 

 v. with five rounded lobes., and brown stripes. It is very generous 

 i with its fine little stars of rich gold, spotted with a paler shade, 

 all through the summer, and may be known from all allied 



spec: 38 than by the rejlexing calyx. It is abundant in 



cultivation under the false name of S. Cymbalaria, Linn. — a wholly 

 different thing (q.v.) — and If freely in cool moist corners. The 



confusion of name is accounted for by the fact that this is 8. Cymbalaria 

 (Sibth. and Sm.). a much finer and larger-flowered golden Southerner 

 than 8. i , L. 



Idanellaefolia • i gi rdene is a neat and tiny clumped affair 

 standing close to 8. t 



thulata. from Northern Africa, is a gem-bearing Mossy, quite 

 easily to be known rrowly ^poon-shaped leaves, fringed at 



dge and perfectly untoothed, uncloven and undivided, except in the 

 rarest cases. The buds ai round, enveloped in obovate dusky 



leaves webbed with hairs from their edges ; and the flowers are small 

 and white on short stems in sprays. Like many others of its habit, 

 such as 8. conifera and S. Betderiana, it is rather d fficult to grow, and 

 as often missed as seldom mourned. The thing that usually goes 

 out under the name is a form of S. decipiens. S. erioblasta, q.v., from 

 the Spanish Alps, is a stoutened variety of this, with the gem-buds 

 invested in longer hairs. 



8. x spedoaa is a garden hybrid between 8. Cotyledon and S. aeizoon. 

 It makes concise clumps, that do not spread much, of very handsome 

 ark-green in the leaf, and beautifully beaded ; the flowers 

 are borne on stocky spikes of 6 inches or less, rather stiffly, and are 

 large and solid, of brilliant pure-white. It is a treasure, but Latin 

 varietal names ought not to be applied to hybrids unless a whole race 

 is to bear it and the description be stereotyped — a task impossible 

 of achievement. There is also under this name a hybrid in the 

 I 



plendida is said to be a hybrid of 8. longifolia and S. Cotyledon 

 — one among so many. It has stout spikes of 6 inches or so, in the 

 ugly and impure creamy tone of the worst Aeizoons, but larger ; 

 and the silver-beaded rosettes of narrow outspread leaves, green and 

 lustrous, are quite specialty attractive. 



me for a group of lavish-growing Mossies 



that on one side fade into the fine-1 aved 8. hyj nd on the 



: into ampler-lobed S. d* It forms the usual wide soft 



masses, and mav be either compact oi loose. In the typical state 



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