SAXIFRA'GA A1Z00N. 
MARGIN ATED SAXIFRAGE. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SAXIFRAGES. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
Alps of Ear. 
9 inches. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1731. 
No. 419. 
Saxifraga is an old name, compounded from the 
words saxum, frango, most probably on account of 
some real or supposed medicinal virtues of the plant, 
in breaking or destroying the stone in calculous and 
gravelly diseases. Aizoon, from the Greek aei, 
always ; and zoon, alive; a character which may 
not inaptly be applied to the whole genus, consist- 
ing of nearly a hundred species. 
If a single flower were not produced by any of 
this genus, almost every plant it contains would be 
valuable — would be ornamental. The beautiful 
evergreen tufts of some, compact as a velvet cush- 
ion; and the succulent motley leaves of others, 
wedge within wedge, to a central point, produce a 
lively variety, as well in winter as summer. They 
relieve the surface of the garden from that tameness 
and aridity which is wont to prevail, when wintry 
blasts have desolated its borders ; and the gay visi- 
tants — the splendid offspring of summer, have fallen 
to decay. 
Culture of the Saxifraga aizoon scarcely need be 
mentioned, as it will grow wherever a plant can 
be expected to grow. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 65. 
