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Tab, 6688. 
SAXIFRAGA LINGULATA var. cochlearis. 
Native of the Maritime Alps. 
Nat. Ord. SaxtFRAGACEH.—Tribe SaXIFRAGES. 
Genus Saxrrraca, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. i. p. 635.) 
Saxirraca lingulata ; caudicibus ceespitosis crassis foliorum vestigiis vestitis, 
ramis brevibus foliosis glabris v. tenuiter glanduliferis, foliis rosulatis lineari- 
v. obovato-spathulatis acutis obtusis v. linearibus apicibus rotundatis integerrimis 
v. crenulatis calcareo-crustatis, caulinis paucis linearibus, caulibus gracilibus, 
floribus corymboso-paniculatis gracile pedicellatis, calycis glabri lobis ovatis v. 
oblongis obtusis marginibus membranaceo-ciliolatis, petalis obovatis albis 
sepalis multoties longioribus. 
Var. cochlearis ; minor, rubro- v. purpureo-glandulosa, panicula thyrsoidea, foliis 
basilaribus linearibus apice in laminam rotundatam v. late spathulatam 
dilatatis. 
S. lingulata var. cochlearis, Engler Monog. Gatt. Sazxifrag. p. 237. 
S. cochlearis, Reichb. Fl. Germ. Excurs. p. 559 ; Bertol. Fl. Ital. vol. iv. p. 456; 
Ardoino Fl. Alp. Marit. p. 149. 
Sazifraga lingulata is a widely-distributed plant of the 
Mediterranean region, varying much and assuming con- 
siderably different forms in the regions it inhabits. The 
Apennines seem to be the centre of its geographical range, 
from whence it extends to Sicily in one direction, and 
westward along the Maritime Aips to Provence in the 
other, The var. cochlearis is a small state of the plant, 
confined, as far as is known, to the alpine regions of the 
mountains north of Nice and Mentone, from the Col de 
Tenda to Mount Mularé. an A 
The specimen here figured was communicated by Mr. 
Jas. Atkins, of Painswick, who flowered this rare plant 
in June of last year, and who communicated two sub- 
varieties; a smaller with the leaves only one-half, an inch, 
figured on the right-hand side of the Plate; the other, the 
eh figure, having leaves three-quarters to one inch 
ong. MT ia \ g 
MAY Ist, 18835. 
