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NOTE UPON SAXIFRAGA MUTATA. 



flowers to about four each. The colour of the fresh flowers is 

 yellow ; of the old ones orange, not bright. I imagine that it 

 has not been in England the last forty or fifty years. I was told 



in Switzerland that I had no chance of cultivating it unless I 

 could plant it instantly. Where it grew in Switzerland the 

 water was gushing out from the hill side. 



