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PB ACTIO AL GUIDE TO GARDEN PLANTS saxifeaga. 



spring, when they may be transferred to 

 moist shaded parts of the rockery. The 

 seeds may also be sown in spring in the 

 open air where the plants are to bloom, 

 covering the seed-patches with a hand- 

 light until the seedlings are well above 

 the surface of the soil. But plants raised 

 thus never attain the size and vigour of 

 those raised from autumn-sown seed. 



S. Huguenini. — A neat little perennial 

 1-2 in. high, native of the Swiss Alps. 

 It has a tufted habit, and creeping stems 

 clothed with oblong ciliate-toothed leaves. 

 The solitary white flowers appear in early 

 summer. 



Culture dc. as above for S. burseriana. 



S. hypnoides {Dovedale Moss ; Eve's 

 Cushion). — A pretty, deep green, mossy 

 species, native of Britain and W. Europe. 

 Leaves wedge-shaped, 3-5-cleft, smooth or 

 more or less fringed with glandular hairs. 

 Flowers from May to July, white, 5-I 

 in. across, on stalks 3-18 in. long. 

 8. decipiens, affinis, incurvifolia, hiria, 

 gemmifera, platypetala, and Sternhergi, 

 are more or less distinct forms of this 

 very variable species. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. ajugce- 

 folia. 



S. imbricata. — A densely tufted 

 Indian species 3 in. high, leaves small, 

 chaimelled, ovate-oblong, keeled at the 

 apex, hairy toothed on the edges. Flowers 

 in June and July, white, solitary. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. burseriana. 



S. integrifolia. — This is a hairy and 

 clammy plant, native of the Bocky Moun- 

 tains, and resembling 8. hieracifolia and 

 8. virginiensis. The deep green lower 

 leaves are somewhat membranous, ovate 

 oblong, very blunt, entire or slightly 

 sinuate-crenate. The white flowers are 

 borne on an erect naked scape about May 

 and June. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. Chisi. 



S. irrigua. — A native of Tauria 6-12 

 in. high. Lower leaves palmatelyS-parted, 

 upper ones 3-cleft, sessile. Flowers in 

 summer, white, large, bell-shaped, in loose 

 panicles. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. granulata. 



S. juniperifolia (8. juniperina). — A 

 distinct Caucasian species, with sharp 

 pointed, oval-shaped leaves in dense, firm 

 cushions. Flowers in summer, yellow or 

 greenish-yellow, 6-10 on a spike. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. burseriana. 



S. Kotschyi.— A pretty bluish-green 

 species, native of Asia Minor, forming 

 densely tufted rosettes J-J in. across, with 

 small, obovate, blunt, apioulate leaves^ 

 Flowers in summer, yellow, in cymes at 

 the ends of the short leafy stems. Be- 

 quires sheltered sunny corners. 



Culture dc. as above for S. burseri- 

 ana, p. 418. 



S. lactea. — A remarkable Siberian 

 species 4^5 in. high, clothed with glandu- 

 lar down, and having tufts of wedge- 

 shaped leaves cut into 3-5 bluntly oblong 

 lobes, the upper leaves being cut into 3 

 linear blunt lobes. The white flowers,, 

 with obovate wedge-shaped petals, appear 

 in June, and look very pretty against the 

 bright green foliage. 



Culture dc. as for 8. granulata, p. 421.. 



S. latepetiolata. — A remarkable bien- 

 nial Saxifrage, native of the Spanish 

 mountains. It has strong branching 

 stems 9-12 in. high, and dense rosettes 

 of glandular hairy kidney-shaped leaves 

 deeply cut into 3-5 coarsely crenate lobes, 

 and having broad petioles. The white 

 flowers, each i in. across, are borne in 

 crowded clusters. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. huetiana. 



S. leucanthemifolia. — A pretty North 

 American species 5-18 in. high. Leaves 

 oblong wedge-shaped or spathulate, 

 coarsely toothed or cut, tapering into a 

 stalk. Flowers in summer, white, in a 

 spreading corymbose or paniculate cyme ; 

 petals unequal, the 3 outer ones with a 

 heart-shaped, dotted base. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. Chisi. 



S. ligulata. — A handsome Nepalese 

 plant 1 ft. high. Leaves obovate or rather 

 heart-shaped, wavy, toothed, expanded at 

 the base into a fringed sheath. Flowers 

 from March to May, pale red, almost white, 

 in forked panicles ; petals broad, roundish. 

 The variety ciliata differs from the type 

 in havuig smaller leaves hairy on both 

 surfaces, but it is a charming plant for 

 sheltered nooks in the rockery. It may 

 also be grown in cool conservatories, and 

 will flower a week or two earlier as a 

 result of the artificial protection. 



The plant called S. 8chmidti seems 

 to be identical with the ordinary form of 

 S. ligulata. 



Culture dc. as above forS. cordifolia. 



S. lingulata. — A native of the Alps 1- 

 1', ft. high. Leaves linear tongue-shaped. 



