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laginous at the apex. Stem-leaves smaller, passing into bracts. 

 Petals white, often spotted with red, or more rarely with purple, 

 wedge-shaped. 



Primary rocks, especially granite, from 3500-6500 feet. July, 

 August. 



Distribution. — Eastern, Central, and Western Alps, abundant on 

 Italian side of Simplon Pass ; Pyrenees, Scandinavia, Iceland. 



Saxifraga lingulata Bellardi. 



Stem 6-18 inches long, glabrous, rather slender, and often droop- 

 ing, branching from the middle or sometimes lower, with several 

 smaU linear and sometimes indented leaves. Rosette-leaves linear- 

 oblong, elongated, channelled above, rather pointed at apex, thick, 

 entire, with an encrusted indentation at the curved-in margin. 

 Rosettes somewhat loose and erect. Flowers milk-white, in long and 

 rather unilateral panicles, with branches of 2-6 flowers. Calyx 

 glabrous, but slightly rugged, with lanceolate-obtuse lobes. Petals 

 ovate, wedge-shaped. Stamens subulate. 



Limestone rocks from 3000-5300 feet ; very local. June, July. 



Distribution. — French and Italian Maritime Alps and Ligurian 

 Alps, with the Col di Tenda as a centre ; Hautes-Alpes, Basses- 

 Alpes, Var, Sardinia, Sicily. 



It forms exquisite drooping plumes of blossom on the rocks about 

 Tenda in company with the rather smaller 5. cochlearis. 



Saxifraga lantoscana Boiss. et Rent. 



Stem usually shorter than in S. lingulata, of which it is sometimes 

 considered a variety. Rosette-leaves linear-spathulate, broader 

 towards the apex, with white calcareous patches, obtuse and 

 shorter than in lingulata and not channelled. Flowers milk-white, 

 with fine lines of red dots. Inflorescence more or less unilateral. 

 Calyx campanulate, with lanceolate-obtuse teeth. 



Limestone rocks in the district round St. Martin Lantosque in 

 the Maritime Alps, at Mont^de la Chen in the Var, and possibly in 

 Liguria. 



The long discussion upon the last two Saxifrages alluded to in 

 Alpine Plants of Europe was summed up by Mr. T. A. Sprague, 

 B.sc, in a paper entitled Saxifraga lingulata and S. lantoscana.'^ 



Saxifraga cochlearis Reichb. 



Stem 4-12 inches long, glandular except at the summit, slender, 

 reddish brown, branching above the middle into a rather dense, 

 usually short and sometimes glandular panicle, with usually 3 

 flowers on each branch. The panicle in exceptionally large speci- 

 mens from Tenda, which the writer measured, was 7 inches in length. 

 Rosette-leaves quite short, broadly linear at the base and suddenly 



1 Kew BuHetin (191 1), No. 3. See also Gardener's Chronicle, March i6th, 1912, 

 and December, 1874, 



