SAXIPEAGA 



EOCKFOIL OBDER 



SAXIFEAGA 425 



ciliate at the base, and of a bright shining 



green when young. The citron-yellow 



flowers appear in spring or early summer. 



Cii Iture dc. as above for S. burseriana. 



S. purpurascens (Megasea purpur- 

 ascens). — A large-leaved handsome Hima- 

 layan species 6-12 in. high. Leavesobovate 

 rounded, entire, 2-3 in. long, glossy green, 

 sometimes obscurely sinuated, and mar- 

 gined with red. Flowers from April to 

 June, purple, bell-shaped, about 1 in. 

 a,cross, and borne in dense, downy, 

 glandular, corymbose panicles. 



Culture dc. as above for C. oordi- 

 folia, p. 419. 



S. pygmaea (S. paradoxa). — A Pyren- 

 ean species 1-2 in. high, with slender 

 thread-like stems. Leaves lance-shaped, 

 smooth. Flowers in May and June, 

 yellowish, very small. 



Culture etc. as above for 8. ajiigce- 

 folia, p. 417. 



S. rocheliana. — A pretty Austrian 

 kind with tufts of smooth, tongue-shaped, 

 white-edged leaves, fringed at the base, 

 the upper ones pale green, with clammy 

 hairs. Flowers in spring, white, large, 

 freely produced in corymbose stems 3-4 

 in. high. B. coriophylla is very near this, 

 and is practically a variety of it. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. burseriana. 



S. rotundifolia. — A native of Austria, 

 about 1 ft. high. Leaves kidney-shaped, 

 coarsely and unequally toothed, the upper 

 ones stalked. Flowers in May and June, 

 dotted with scarlet ; petals lance-shaped, 

 acvite, 3-nerved. The variety taygetea 

 from Greece has the leaves 5-9-lobed, the 

 lower ones stalked and hairy-edged, the 

 upper ones linear or trifid. Other forms 

 are angulosa, heucherifoUa, lasiophylla, 

 and repanda. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. cuneifolia. 



S. Salomoni. — This is a pretty hybrid 

 between 8. rocheliana and 8. burseriana, 

 both of which have white flowers. Their 

 offspring has mossy grey-green leaves from 

 which arise purplish scapes 2-3 in. high, 

 each bearing a solitary white flower about 

 f in. across in March and April. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. burseriana. 



S. sancta. — A beautiful species, native 

 ■of Greece, forming a dense carpet-like mass 

 ■of deep green, lance-shaped, keeled leaves, 

 fringed and finely toothed on the margins. 

 Flowers in early spring and summer, 



bright yellow, in a short dense spike an 

 inch or two high. 



Ctdture dc. as above for 8. burseriana. 



S. sarmentosa (Aaron's Beard ; Creep- 

 ing Sailor; Mother of Thousands ; Old 

 Man's Beard ; Wandering Jew ; Pedlar's 

 Basket, dc). — The common names of this 

 distinct and pretty Chinese plant show 

 that it is fairly well known. Leaves 

 roundish heart-shaped, hairy, crenate- 

 lobed, red beneath, mottled above ; run- 

 ners creeping, and ending in rooting offsets. 

 Flowers in summer, white, 2 of the inner 

 petals having a yellow spot, and the cen- 

 tral one 2 scarlet spots at the base ; the 2 

 outer petals large, flaccid. 



The variety minor is merely a smaller 

 growing form ; tricolor is a handsome 

 plant with green leaves beautifully blotched 

 with creamy white and red, but too tender, 

 I fear, for outdoor cultivation, except in 

 shady spots in summer. 



This species is usually grown suspended 

 in pots or baskets to allow the runners and 

 offsets to hang down, and is often seen in 

 rooms or cottagers' windows, or in cool 

 conservatories. As an indoor rock plant 

 it is charming. It may also be grown 

 outside in the mildest parts of the British 

 Islands. 



Culture dc. as above for S. Clusi. 



S. scardica. — A pretty Macedonian 

 Saxifrage forming dense and somewhat 

 hairy tufts. The leaves are oblong acute 

 stiffish, becoming lance-shaped acute up- 

 wards, of a bright grey-green, tinged with 

 dull purple beneath. The white or pale 

 rosy-red flowers appear in June and July 

 on purple hairy stems in corymbose 

 clusters. 



Culture dc. as above for 8. burseriana . 



S. Stracheyi. — A strong-growing 

 species 4-8 in. high, native of the Western 

 Himalayas. Leaves with roundish stipular 

 sheaths at the base, obovate wedge-shaped, 

 3-6 in. long, lobed at the base, irregularly 

 toothed and fringed on the edges. Flowers 

 in March, pink, f-l in. across, in a much- 

 branched drooping panicle ; petals obovate, 

 spoon-shaped, or roundish. The variety 

 Milesi has leaves 9-12 in. long, 4-5 broad, 

 and white flowers. Thysanodes is some- 

 what taller, with obovate, deeply crenate- 

 serrate leaves, hairy on both sides, espe- 

 cially beneath ; flowers in April, white, 

 small, in a slightly branched raceme. The 

 variety alba and the plant called 8. 

 afghanica, with white flowers, seem to be 



