Tas. 4621. 
SAXIFRAGA FLAGELLARIS. 
Spider-legged Saxifrage. 
Nat. Ord. SAXIFRAGACEH.—DECANDRIA DiGyNIa. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-sepalus, sepalis plus minus inter se et seepe cum ovario 
coalitis. Petala 5, rariter irregularia, breviter unguiculata, integra. Stamina 10, 
5 sepalis, 5 petalis opposita; anther biloculares. Capsula calyci adnata vel libera ; 
carpella 2, sepe usque ad stylum coalita. Semina numerosa, rugosa Vv. leevia, in 
pluribus seriebus disposita. Spermodermium ultra nucleum ovoideum non pro- 
ductum.—Herbe perennes v. annua, sepissime valde polymorphe in eadem specie. 
Flores sepius paniculati, vel corymbosi, abortu solitarit. De Cand. 
SaxrrraGa flagellaris ; flagellis filiformibus apice proliferis, caule erecto sim- 
plici 1-3-floro calycibusque glanduloso-pilosis, foliis radicalibus caulinisque 
obovato-spathulatis glanduloso-ciliatis, petalis persistentibus capsula fere 
omnino supera longioribus. 
SaxrrraGa flagellaris. Willd. ex Sternb. Rev. Sax. p. 25. t. 6. Br. Chior. 
Mele. p.15. Bieb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. Suppl. p. 291. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am.v.1. 
p. 258. t. 87. Torrey and Gray, N. Am. Flora, v. 2. p. 564. 
SaxrrraGa aspera. Bieb.\ Fl. Taur. Cauc. v. 1. p. 314 (excl. syn.). 
Saxrrraca setigera. Pursh, dm. Bor. v.1. p. 312. 
Not one of the many expeditions that have gone out to dis- 
cover a “north-west passage,” or in search of the many brave 
and excellent officers and men of the Erebus and Terror whose 
fate is yet unknown to us, but has prosecuted researches in 
various branches of natural history—botany in particular. The 
flora of the Arctic regions, consequently, is as well known as 
that of any portion of civilized Europe. Living plants from 
those regions are always desiderata, for our climate, especially in 
the latitude and in the proximity of London, is very unsuited to 
their preservation, and they soon perish. A box filled with 
various growing plants, has been collected at Cornwallis Island, 
and sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew, by Capt. N. Penny, com- 
manding the ship Albert, in conjunction with his very intelligent 
medical officer, Dr. Sutherland, and among them this curious and 
rare Saxifrage in a flowering state. It is drawn and lithographed 
and now published in little more than a month from its being 
landed in England, in October 1851. The present species of 
Sazxifraga inhabits the Caucasian and Altaic Alps, as well as the 
Rocky Mountains of North America in about lat. 42°, to Melville 
DECEMBER Ist, 1851. 
