Tas. 6640, 
SAXIFRAGA Camposil. 
. Native of Spain. 
Nat. Ord. Saxtrragackx.—Tribe SaxIFRaGen. 
Genus SaxirraGa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 635.) 
SaxirraGa Camposii; dense ecwspitosa, foliis laxe rosulatis sparse laxe pilosis 
carnosulis petiolo lato nervoso, limbo flabelliformi 3-5-lobo lobis integris, v. 
latiore lobis 2-3-fidis, ramis floriferis glabris v. parse glanduloso-pilosis, pedun- 
culis subcorymbosis pedicellis ovariisque globosis densius glanduloso-puberulis, 
floribus %-poll. diam, inclinatis, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis ovario longioribus, 
petalis spathulatis albis staminibus duplo longioribus, antheris flavis, stylis 
gracilibus fere rectis stigmatibus oblongo capitatis. 
8. Camposii, Boiss. et Reut. Pugill. (1852), p. 47; Willk. Ill. Fl. Hisp. p. 38, 
t. 32,4 B; Willk. et Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. vol. iii. p. 112; Engler, 
Monog. Gatt. Sawif. p. 168. 
S. Almeriensis, Willk. ined. Pl. Exsice. (1845), no. 1224, 
S. Wallaceana, Hort. 
There is no more difficult group of plants to discriminate 
specifically than the Dactyloid Saxifrages; many of the 
forms are exceedingly local; they are only just distinguish- 
able when compared from their native habitats; they 
vary more or less in habit under cultivation, without abso- 
lutely “ running into” one another; and in the dried state 
they lose much of the character they showed when living. 
S. Camposii is no exception to this statement; according 
to Willkomm its nearest affinity is with S. trifwrcata, Schrad. 
(Bot. Mag., t. 1651), and S. cuneata, Willd., but to me it 
appears to be scarcely distinguishable from S. Maweana, 
Baker (Bot. Mag., t. 6384), except in the smaller leaves, 
which seem never to assume the reniform shape. It is true 
that, judging by the dried native specimens, S. Camposii 
is a stouter, more rigid species, with a more crowded rosette 
of leaves, and shorter peduncles and pedicels, but under 
cultivation these differences are so considerably modified, 
that the two plants may not unreasonably be regarded as 
avuGusT Ist, 1882. 
