SAXIFRAGA. 



approaches much moro nearly to 8. Burseriana, thougli smaller and 

 laxer in the tufiet, as well as broader in the leaf. It is a free grower 

 too, and particularly free with its short stems carrying usually only 

 ono large flower, like those of 8. Burseriana. 



8. Unjgetea is a small and dainty little clumped species in the kindred 

 of S. rotund [folia, with roundish stalked scalloped leaves of pale colour 

 and thick texture, topped by 8-inch showers of loose pink and white 

 stars. It thrives in a cool place like the others. 



8. I- llimoeidcs almost escapes out of the family of Saxifraga into that 

 of Boykinia. It has a fat creeping rhizome, and five-lobed leaves, 

 often as much as inches across, and veined with brown, on long 

 stalks, after the style of a modified S. peltata, with one or two more 

 haves set here and there up the stout 18-inch stem, that is brown in 

 colour, and ends in a truss of eight or ten largo whitish flowers with 

 long velvet petals. It thrives easily in rich soil in a rather cool out- 

 of-the-way place, and blooms in July and August. 



8. tenella belongs to the Trachyphyllums, and makes conspicuous 

 mats of delicate bright -green moss in the Julian and Styrian Alps, 

 carpeting the ground with slender shoots, clad in needle-narrow little 

 leaves of clear translucent emerald, minutely fringed as a rule, and each 

 ending in a bristle. The many 4-inch stems, fine and dainty, come up 

 in summer as in the rest of the group, and loosely branch to carry some 

 half a dozen or more little stars of bright clear white. It is a ready 

 grower in good cool soil, and makes a most brilliant and lovely mass. 



8. thessalica, Schott, is either something or nothing. It ought to 

 represent the close-spiked and spine-leaf-rosetted Engleria, with baggy 

 little bells of claret-crimson, in a much more dense head than most, 

 which is imported in the mats of S. scardica, and sometimes is sent 

 out as 8. Bertoloni. On the other hand, it is also declared to be a 

 synonym of 8. Federici Augusti, Biasoleto, which, as represented and 

 grown, is littlo moro than a development of the broad-leaved, large- 

 belled, and loose-spired S. media of the Spanish Alps. See notes under 

 the other names in this tangle. This ought to stand distinct as the 

 only Engleria with rosettes of narrow spinous leaves, and small flowers 

 in a denser spiko than in any of the rest except broad-leaved 8. Grise- 

 bachii. But the wholo group is difficult and tangled in gardens. 



8. tkysanodes is a variety of 8. ligulata, q.v. 



S. tombeanensis is perhaps the most fascinating of all the several- 

 flowered Kabschias. It stands midway between 8. diapensioeides and 

 N. Vandcllii. niaki] g harder tighter mats than any other species, of 

 minuter Leaves, iai and serried and bluntly pointed, standing up in a 

 dense array like tlioso of 8. diapensioeides, but of microscopic sizo and 



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