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S. aretioides, but is at once distinguished from that by its white, 

 entire, and olDlong petals. A native of the Alps of Switzerland, 

 Dauphiny, and the Pyrenees. 



SAXIFRAG-A G-EUM. — Kidney-leaved London Pride. 



Very like the London Pride in habit and flowers, but with the 

 leaves roundish, heart-shaped at the base, on long stalks, and 

 with scattered hairs on the surfaces ; flowers about a quarter 

 of an inch across, and usually with reddish spots. A native 

 of various parts of Europe, useful for the same purposes and 

 cultivated with the , same facility as the London Pride, will 

 grow freely in woods or borders, particularly in moist dis- 

 tricts, and is worthy of naturalisation in the former. Like its 

 neighbours, it is, of course, suitable for rockwork, but does not 

 deserve that position so much as numbers of plants niuch more 

 difficult to grow. Saxifraga hirsuta comes near this, and is pro- 

 bably a variety, the chief difference being that the leaves are 

 longer than broad, less heart-shaped, and more hairy ; it is suit- 

 able for like positions. 



SAXIFRAGA Qc^B.&XS^3^Ll^JiK.— Meadow Saxifrage. 



A LOWLAND plant, with several small scaly bulbs in a crown at 

 the root, and common in meadows and banks in England, with 

 crenate leaves, thickly clothed with shaggy glandular hairs, and 

 numerous white flowers, three quarters of an inch across. I should 

 not name it here were it not for its handsome double form 

 .S". granulata fl. pi., which I have often seen flowering profusely 

 and prettily in little cottage gardens in Surrey. . It is very useful 

 in the spring garden as a border-plant, or on rougher parts 

 of rockwork. Mr. Bentham considers that the small bulb- 

 bearing S. cernua of Ben Lawers may be a variety of the 

 Meadow S. As a garden-plant, S. cernua, however, is a mere 

 curiosity, though it may be acceptable in botatiical collections. 



SAXIFRAGA HIRCULUS.— F^//oa/ Marsh Saxifrage. 



A REMARKABLE species, with a single bright yellow flower on each 

 stem, or sometimes two or three, three quarters of an inch across, 

 and tufts of obovate leaves, gradually attenuated into the stalk. 

 Quite different in aspect from any other cultivated Saxifrage. 

 A native of wet moors in various parts of England, not difficult 



