SAXEFRAGA. 



alpine, rather tjian high-alpine elevations, often especially abundant 

 on mossy rocks in the woodland region, as on the dank tremendous 

 walls of the Serraj do Sottoguda. From the Dolomites it ranges East- 

 ward into the Carpathians and the Karawanken, where it seem- to 

 id higher upon the mountains ; there, on the crest of the Hoch 

 Obir, I found a most unusual variation with flowers of clear pale-yellow, 

 without suggestion of hybrid blood about the growth's other details, 

 and with neither S. mutata nor S. aeizoeides there present to con- 

 tribute any golden influence. 



S. Stabiana is a small neat carpeting form of S. aeizoon — the same 

 as S. Sturmiana. 



S. Stdhriana. See under S. bronchial i«. 



S. stdlaris is a native bog-plant and generally distributed all 

 over the Northern world, with various closely allied species or sub- 

 species — S. leucunthemifolia, S. Clusii, S. Engleri, D.T., &c. It varies 

 widely accordingly, and sometimes its branching sprays produce only 

 bulbils. And there is a beautiful quite dwarf form of the high summits 

 in rather dry places, with only a single large pearl-white blossom to the 

 short scape, and this with a dusting of gold against which the rose-red 

 anthers make a brilliant delicate effect. Such also are the flowers 

 of the type, only carried in light branching sprays on stems of 4 or 5 

 inches, above a rosette of obovate wedge-shaped leaves, toothed 

 towards their end, and of a leathery dark-green consistency. So it 

 may be seen in every bog of the alpine and sub-alpine region (of Europe 

 and England and the far North) ; and so it should also be seen in every 

 garden that can arrange for the conditions of soaking b' ggy moisture 

 in spongy soil on which it always and everywhere insists, declining 

 in the garden to put up for long with even the most well-meant of 

 substitutes. 



S. stenopetala=S. aphylla. q.v. 



S. Stracheyi is the second of the Bergenias, with a fringed eyelash to 

 the great green leaves, as in S. ligulata. But here the pedicels of the 

 blossoms are hairy and not bald, while the many larger blossoms, up- 

 standing in their ranks on the wide and spreading head, are pure-white, 

 cream-coloured, or tinged with pink. This, with 8. crassifolia, is by 

 far the best and easiest of the Bergenia-species for culture out of doors ; 

 being, with its variety S. S. Milesii, the last of the line to come into 

 flower. In nurseries the two names, 8. ligulata and S. Stracheyi, have 

 got transposed, each upon the wrong plant ; so that the useful, easy, 

 and hardy true S. Stracheyi has acquired the bad name that rightly 

 belongs to the uncertain 8. ligulata, which has little if any use for 

 outdoor culture, not only on account of its constitution, but because 



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