SAXIPRAGACEZ. 
faces: cauline one petiolate; petioles hairy. 2%. H. Native 
of the west coast of North America, in the Island of Unalaschka. 
Flowers white, size of those of S. bulbifera ; calycine segments 
lanceolate, acute; petals obovate, with branched flexuous 
nerves. Pedicels and calyxes beset with crowded glandular 
hairs. 
Nodding-flowered Saxifrage. Pl. + foot. 
41 S. RANUNCULIFÒLIA (Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 246. t. 83.) 
plant clothed with glandular pubescence, slender : lower leaves 
on very long petioles, reniform, 3-parted: segments broadly 
cuneated, deeply lobed; cauline leaves few ; flowers corymbose, 
pentandrous; petals obovate, twice the length of the calyx; 
calyx beset with glandular hairs: segments acute. 2%. H. 
Native of North America; common on the high grounds around 
the Kettle Falls of the Columbia, and on the Rocky Mountains. 
Flowers white, size of those of S. stellaris. Petals obovate, un- 
guiculate. 
Crow-foot-leaved Saxifrage. PI. $ foot. 
42 S. exr'zis (Steph. in Sternb. sax. suppl. p. 8. t. 3. f. 1.) 
root tufted ; radicles capillary ; radical leaves palmately 5-lobed, 
petiolate: cauline ones linear, entire; petals obovate-oblong, 
much longer than the 5-cleft calyx. 3y. H. Native of Siberia, 
and probably of Kotzebue’s Sound. Stem weak, 2-flowered. 
Flowers white. 
Slender Saxifrage. Pl. 4 foot. 
43 S. Laurentia‘na (Ser. in D. C. prod. 4. p. 35.) plant 
with many stems; radical leaves on long petioles, reniform, 5-7- 
lobed, crenated, reticulately veined lengthwise, glabrous; stems 
and peduncles ornamented with long intricate hairs; flowers 
few, somewhat capitate, involucrated by 3-4 crenately lobed 
bracteas ; lobes of calyx ovate, obtuse, shorter than the petals; 
petals 3-nerved towards the middle. Y.H. Native of the 
Island of St. Laurence in Behring’s Straits. S. Chamissdnis, 
Sternb. ined. but not S. Chamissdi, Sternb. Flowers white. 
St. Laurence Saxifrage. Pl. 4 foot. 
44 S. Srepuania'na (Stern. suppl. sax. 1. p. 8. t. 6. f. 2.) 
plant tufted; stem usually 4-flowered, pilose ; radical, as well as 
the cauline leaves, petiolate, and palmately many-lobed, pilose ; 
bracteas nearly linear; sepals linear, obtuse; petals obovate, 
many nerved. %.H. Native of Siberia, Steph. S. palmata, 
Steph. in litt. ex Sternb. l. e. Flowers white. 
Stephan’s Saxifrage. Pl. 4 foot. 
45 S. auti’ripa (Haw. enum. sax. p. 24.) leaves deeply and 
palmately 3-parted : segments profoundly 3-5-cleft; peduncles 
subracemose, divaricate. 2. H. Native country unknown. 
S. adscéndens, Haw. exclusive of all the synonymes. Very 
nearly allied to 5. granuldta, but truly distinct, and differs in 
the fissures of the leaves, and in the more decumbent stems. 
Flowers white. 
Deep-cleft-leaved Saxifrage. Fl. May, June. PI. $ foot. 
Secr. IV. HrrcuLus (a name given by the ancients to a kind 
of spikenard or valerian, which has nothing to do with the pre- 
sent plant). Tausch, hort. canal. fasc. 1. Haw. enum. sax. p. 
40. Kingstònia, Gray, brit. fl. 2. p. 531. Calyx deeply 5-cleft 
(f. 42. a.), not adhering to the ovarium. Petals sessile (f. 42. b.) 
in most of the species. Stamens inserted in the throat of the 
calyx (f. 42. c.); filaments subulate. Styles straight ; stigmas 
arbicular, flattish, beardless. Capsule free from the calyx (f. 
42. d. a.) Seeds oblong, wrinkled from dots.—Humble her- 
pope evergreen plants. Stems leafy, stoloniferous. Leaves 
h ternate, narrow, nerved, entire, but usually ciliated with stiff 
airs, marcescent. Flowers white or yellow. 
Ps S. nixcutus (Lin. spec. 576.) leaves lanceolate, obtuse, not 
ciliated; calycine segments lanceolate, obtuse, usually ciliated ; 
petals obovate, many nerved ; styles almost wanting; stigmas 
211 
spatulate, when young deflexed, afterwards divaricate. YJ. H. 
Native of Sweden, Switzerland, Lapland, Siberia, Caucasus, 
Germany, and in England, in boggy places. It is also found in 
North America, from the Saskatchawan to the Arctic sea shore 
and Islands, where it seems most abundant; Behring’s Straits, 
Cape of Good Hope, Kotzebue’s Sound, &c. In England ina 
turfy morass about the centre of Knutsford moor, Cheshire ; and 
on Cotherstone Fell, near the junction of the Black Heath with 
the river Balder, Yorkshire. FI. dan. t. 200. Smith, engl. bot. 
1009. S. flava, Lam. fl. fr. 3. p. 529. S. propinqua, R. Br. in 
Ross’ voy. ed. 2. vol. 2. p. 192. Hirculus ranunculoides, Haw. 
enum. sax. p. 60.—Gmel. sib. 4. p. 165. t. 65. f. 3. Plant 
pale green, with numerous procumbent stolons. Stem from 4 
inches to 1 foot high. Peduncles long, 1-flowered, covered with 
clammy fuscous villi. Flowers large, showy golden yellow; se- 
pals obtuse. 
Var. P, elata; stem a foot high, many flowered; peduncles 
very villous. 2. H. Native of Eastern Siberia. 
Var. y, acutdta (Ser. in D.C. prod. 4. p. 45.) segments of 
calyx acute; styles rather elongated.—Hall. hist. no. 972. t. 11. 
Var. ò Altaica; stem usually 1-flowered, pubescent; pe- 
duncles clothed with rufous villi. 2. H. Native of Altaia, in 
humid subalpine places at the rivers Ursul and Tschuja. S. 
Hirculus, Ledeb. fi. alt. 2. p. 121. 
Hirculus Saxifrage. Fl. Aug. England. PI. $ to 1 foot. 
47 S. myosoriròLra (D. Don, in Lin. trans. 13. p. 373.) 
plant tufted, without any stolons or flagellze ; leaves ovate, acute, 
mutic, bristly; pedicels elongated, and are as well as the calyxes 
beset with glandular pili; stem nearly naked, usually 3-flowered ; 
calycine segments broadly ovate, acute ; petals roundish, ungui- 
culate, 5-nerved. %. H. Native of Siberia. Surculi very 
short, erect, crowded. Stem 2-3-flowered, beset with stiff hairs. 
Leaves ciliated with hairs on the margins, and on both surfaces. 
Flowers cream-coloured; filaments compressed, yellowish. Styles 
short, thick. 
Mouse-ear-leaved Saxifrage. 
48 S. FLAGELLA`RIS (Sternb. 
sax. p. 25. t. 6.) stolons or fla- 
gellæ filiform ; stemserect, simple, 
1-5-flowered, and are as well as 
the calyxes clothed with glandu- 
lar pubescence; radical leaves as 
well as lower cauline ones obo- 
vately spatulate: superior ones 
rather villous ; petals permanent, 
longer than the capsule, which is 
semi-superior. 4. H. Native of 
the Alps of Caucasus; and of 
north-west America, at Cape 
Newnham, in Melville Island, 
Baffin’s Bay, Behring’s Straits, 
Arctic Islands, summits of the 
Rocky Mountains, Kotzebue’s 
Sound, &c. Hook. fl. bor. amer. 1. p. 253. t. 77. S. setigera, 
Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 312. S. aspera, Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 
$14. exclusive of the synonymes. Hirculus flagellaris, Haw. enum. 
sax. p. 41. Stem leafy, 1-5-flowered. Radical leaves crowded, 
all ciliated on the margins, with cartilaginous spinules: calyx 
and pedicels clothed with glutinous down. Flowers yellow, size 
of those of S. Hirculus (f. 42.). 
Var. a; stem 1-5-flowered; ovarium free from the calyx ; 
sepals oblong. Y%.H. S. flagellaris, Willd. ex Sternb. sax. p. 
25. t. 6. Bieb. fl. taur. 3. p. 291. Ledeb. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 321. 
S. aspera, Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 314. S. myosotidifdlia, Pall. ex 
Spreng. syst. 2. p. 364. 
Var. 3; stem 1-flowered ; ovarium adhering to the calyx at 
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I. SAXIFRAGA. 
Pl. 2 inches. 
FIG. 42. 
