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SAXIFRAGA PETREHA. STONE SAXIFRAGE. 
SEK KEE KEE EERE EERE 
Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—SaxirraceEs. ) 
Generic Character. 
_ Cal. 5-fidus, inferus vel superus vel semisuperus, per- 
sistens. Pet. 5. Capsula birostris, intra rostra dehiscens, 
polysperma, dissepimento placentifero, seminifero. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Saxirraca * petrea ; annua, glanduloso-pilosa, foliis car- 
nosis trilobis, radicalibus cordatis lobis incisis sublonge 
petiolatis, caulinis subcuneatis supremis indivisis, pe- 
dunculis germinibusque inferis glanduloso - hispidis, 
laciniis calycinis oblongis erectis, petalis obovatis re- 
tusis. 
Saxirraca petrea. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 578. Jacq. Ic. Rar. 
». 1. t. 81. Don, Saxifr. in Linn. Tr. v. 13. p. 443. 
Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 369. 
Saxrrraca rupestris. Willd. Sp. Pl. ». 2. p- 653. 
Saxirraca Pone. Sternb. Saxifr. p. 47. t. 18, et t. 1. f- 6. 
Descr. Root annual. Stem erect, and, as well as the 
branches and leaves, glanduloso-pubescent, reddish, terete, 
much branched, the branches often divaricating. Leaves 
mostly trifid, fleshy, those of the root on long, slender 
Stalks, cordate, the three lobes bi- or trifid, the segments 
short, ovate, rather acute, those of the stem generally in- 
clined to be cuneate, the segments simple, linear, the va 
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* For derivation, see t. 2959 (S. leucanthemifolia). 
