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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Saxifraga continued. 



upper radical leaves cuneate, trifld, with pedicelled, thickened 

 leaf-buds in their axils. Tetuan, 1827. A well-known and 

 highly-prized rock plant. (B. M. 6384 ; G. C. 1871, p. 1355.) 

 S. media (intermediate). fl., calyx and peduncle purplish, 

 densely glandular; petals erect, obovate, three to flve-nerved, 



scarcely exceeding 

 paniculate or racemose 



calyx segments ; inflorescence cymose- 

 June and July. I., basal ones imbri- 



cated, explanate-depressed, spathulate-lingulate, acute or obtuse ; 

 "ine ones spatbulate, glabrous, except theapical part. Stem 



Pyrenees. (G. C. n. s., xxiii. 801; 



caul 



erect, h. 6in. to 



S. F. G. 376.) 



S. moschata (musky).* fl. pale yellowish or purplish, one to ten, 

 racemose or paniculate ; petals spreading, oblong, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the calyx segments. May and June. I. smooth, glabrous 

 or glandular-pilose, entire, obtuse or cuneate, trifld, rarely five-fid 

 with linear lobes, obtuse ; cauline ones scattered, trilobed or 

 entire, h. Sin. Pyrenees, Ac., 1819. SYN. S. muscoides. 



S. muscoides (Musk-like). A synonym of S. moschata. 



S. mutata (changeable). /. copper-coloured, marked with deeper- 

 coloured dots, panicled ; calyx and peduncle densely glandular ; 

 petals linear-lanceolate. June and July. 2. flat, spathulate, 

 cartilaginonsly crenated, fringed with long, viscid hairs ; cauline 

 ones obovate, ciliated at base. Stem erect, leafy, glandular. 

 h. 6in. to 12in. Switzerland, 1779. (B. M. 351.) 



8. nepalensls (Nepaul). A garden form of S. Cotyledon. 



S. nivalis (snowy), fl. white, Jin. in diameter, in capitate, four 

 to twelve-flowered cymes ; scape erect, simple, 3in. to 6in. high. 

 July and August. I. broadly spathulate, crenate- toothed, in. to 

 lin. in diameter, sub-coriaceous, red beneath ; petioles lin. to 2in. 

 long. Europe (Britain), &c. (Sy. En. B. 541.) 



S. oppositifolia (opposite-leaved).* fl. bright purple, iin. in 

 diameter, solitary, sessile, on short, annual shoots, campanulate ; 

 petals obovate. April and May. I. opposite, lin. long, quadri- 

 fariously imbricated, thickened and obtuse at the tip, ciliated 

 with stout bristles. Stems 6in. to Sin. long, creeping, leafy 

 Europe (Britain), Ac. (L. B. C. 869 ; R. G. 1039 ; Sy. En. B. 540. j 



S. o. alba (white-flowered). This only differs from the type in 

 the colour of its flowers. 



S. o. major (larger). A form with larger flowers than the type, 

 but not so fine as the next variety. 



S. o. pyrenaica snperba (superb Pyrenean).* The rosy-lilac 

 flowers of this form are very large, more than twice the size of 

 those otS.oppogitifolia, and the habit is more erect. (G. C. n. s., 

 xxi p. 419.) 



S. pallida (pale), fl. white ; petals persistent during the ripening 

 of the fruit; ovary dull purplish-red ; peduncles one to four- 

 spathul 

 Sikkim, 



purplish-red ; ped 



flowered, lin. to 4in. high. Summer. I. 

 posed in a small rosette, h. 3in. to 6in. 

 rockwork plant. 



S. paradoxa (paradoxical). A synonym of S. pygmcea. 



dis- 

 A neat, 



FIG. 431. SAXIPRAGA PELTATA^showing Habit and detached 



S -J^ lta & ( P?^ le ^ ed )-* Umbrella Plant, fl. whi 



er than tU oai ^ , 

 sub-terminal, erect ; 



eUiptic, 

 petiole 



at both ends'! ' AprU. 3 J.; 

 . long, cylindric, : 



i 



six to ten-Iobed, the lobes cut and sharply toothed Dal 

 Bootstock clothed at the tip with the bfoad, 



Saxifraga continued. 

 California, 1873. One of the lare 

 Fig. 431. (B. M. 6074 ; F. d. S. 1 



wt species of the genus. See 

 141 ; R. G. 735.) 



S. pennsylvanica (Pennsylvanian). Swamp Saxifrage, fl- 

 greenish, small ; calyx lobes as long as the petals ; scape many- 

 flowered, erect, clammy-pubescent. May and June. L clustered 

 at the root, oblanceolate, obscurely toothed, 4in. to Sin. lone, 

 narrowed at base into short, broad petioles, h. 1ft. to 2ft. North 

 America, 1732. 



S. pentadactylis (five-fingered), fl. white, disposed in loose 



r nicies; petals obovate, with branched nerves. May and June, 

 on long, compressed petioles, glabrous, five-parted. Stems 

 branched, terete, glabrous, flexuous. h. Sin. to bin. Pyrenees. 

 1815. Plant densely tufted. 

 S. petrsea (rock-loving). A synonym of S. adscendens. 



FIG. 432. SAXIFRAGA PURPURASCENS. 



purpurascens (purplish).* Purple Large-leaved Saxifrage. 

 fl. purple, |in. to lin. across, nodding; petals obovate-oblong, 



sometimes 



glandular-pubescent. June. 

 to Sin. long, highly glabro 

 often impressed with dots. 



long -clawed; panicle few -flowered, corymbose, 

 entire, 



I. obovate-rounded, entire, 2in. 

 s, sometimes obscurely sinuated, 



impressed with dots. h. 3in. to 6in. Himalayas, 1850. 

 See Fig. 432. (B. H. ix. 1 ; B. M. 5066 ; F. d. S. 1401.) SY.N. 

 Megasea purpurascens. 



FIG. 433. SAXIFRAGA PYCM.EA. 



S. pygmsea (pigmy).* fl. yellowish, very small ; petnls tiarrlly 

 longer than the calyx. May and June. I. lanceolate, nerveless, 

 glabrous, blunt, and rather cut at the apex. * Stems filiform, 

 slender, three or four-flowered, few-leaved, glandular, h. lin to 

 2in. Pyrenees (not British). See Fig. 433. SYN. S. paradoxa. 



S. pyramidalis (pyramidal). A form of S. Cotyledon. 



S. rctusa (retuse-leaved).* /. purple ; petals triple-nerved, acute, 

 much shorter than the style. May and June. I. imbricated, 

 oblong, trigonal, acute, full of perforated dots above, ciliated at 

 the base. Stems few-leaved, erect, h. liin. Alps, 1826. 

 (R. G. 1110; S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 49; A. F. P. 21, Fig. 2, under 

 name of S. purpurea.) 



