SAXIFRAGES 33 1 



S. Jlndrosacea (PL XL1I). Small, tufted plant, 

 pubescent and grass-like; leaves entire, ovate-oblong, erect, 

 with glandular teeth in loose rosette ; flowers milk-white, 

 on scapes 2-4 in. high, Frequents moist, cold positions 

 in the Alps between i8oo-25oo m. 



S. muscoides (S. variansj. The type of this section, 

 most of which are found in the Swiss mountains, is itself 

 a dwarf, mossy plant, forming compact cushions of clear 

 green leaves, 2-3 ligulate; flowers greenish or reddish, 

 3-j in small corymbose clusters. July-August. S. mos- 

 chata differs from it in pubescent, glandular leaves, 

 yellowish flowers and 2-10. S. exarata has cuneate leaves, 

 the veins of which on withering become very prominent; 

 flowers white with longer petals. June- August; the 

 Alps. S. Seguieri is only met near to lofty passes and 

 on snowy aretes of the granitic Alps (28oo-35oo m.) ; 

 forms broad sheets of sombre green ; leaves narrow, 

 lanceolate, spathulate, those of the previous year 

 turning dark brown; flowers greenish yellow. July- 

 August. 



S. aphylla is a small, mossy plant with innumerable 

 short leaves, entire or 3-5 foliate; leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, of clear green, and emitting a faint, pleasant 

 perfume; scape short, erect, glandular; flowers solitary, 

 lemon-yellow. July-August. Fissures in shady rocks 

 in the Upper-Alps. This is the celebrated flat-leaved 

 Saxifrage to which E. Rambert has devoted several of 

 his most charming pages the little Saxifrage of the 

 Oldenhorn. 



Somewhat intermediate between the real "mossies" 

 and the creeping Saxifrages of which oppositifolia is 

 typical, comes the section T r achy phy Hum, on which little 

 need be said, as the Swiss species are of no great merit. 

 These are : 



