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SAXIFRAGA VIRGINIENSIS. VIRGINIAN 
SAXIFRAGE, 
Sela eae see desks see ese a sh shea 
Clafs and Order. 
Decanpria Dicynia. 
Generic. Charaéfer. 
Cal. §-partitus, Cor. 5-petala. Cap/. biroftris, s:locularis, po 
lyfperma. 2 18 : 
Specific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
SAXIFRAGA virginienfisp (tota minutim pubens) foliis fpa- 
~ thulatis undulatim crenulatis, caule fubaphyllo dichotomo, 
floribus congeftis, capfulis alternis feffilibus. 
SAXIFRAGA virginienfis ; tota minutim pubefcens, foliis 
ovalibus obtufis crenatis in petiolum decurrentibus, caule 
fubaphyllo paniculato, ramulis dichotomis, floribus fub- 
feffilibus. Purfh Fl. Amer. Sept. 310. 
SAXIFRAGA virginienfis ; tota minutimpubens ; foliis ovali- 
bus, obtufis, quafi petiolatis, crenatis: caule fubaphyllo, 
paniculato, ramulis fubfeffiliter alternifloris: calycibus 
ereclis. Michaux Fl. Am. Bor. 1.269. Perfoon Syn. 1. p. 488. 
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SANI CULA virginienfis alba folio oblongo mucronato. Pluk, 
Phyt. 222. f. 5. ad penfylvanicam male relatam. 
SAXIFRAGA foliis cordato-ovalibus crenatis, corolla alba, 
caule hirfiro aphyllo. Fi. Virg. 1. 160. Clayton n. 525, 
Synonymon ad nvalem a Linnzxo relatum. 
SAXIFRAGA ilofa. Bank/. Herb. et Haworth Mifc. Nat. 
SaxtFRaca virginienfis and nivalis appear to us to be very 
nearly allied, but the flowers and more efpecially the feed- 
veflels of the latter are larger, and the panicle lefs diffule. The 
flowers in wirginienfis do indeed grow in clufters; but, as the 
feed-veffels _ 
