4.32 Mr. D. Don's Monograph of the Genus Saxifraga. 



bertian Herbarium ; but in every essential point they seemed to 

 coincide. 



91. S. magellanica , caulibus crespitosis procumbentibus, foliis 



linearibus trifldisve confertissimis glabris, ramis floriferis 

 nudis axillaribus brevissimis unifloris. Lam. Encycl. vi. 

 p. 686. 



S. magellanica, foliis congestis viscoso-pubescentibus ; infe- 

 rioribus trifidis ; superioribus simplicibus, floribus sub- 

 binatis subsessilibus. F er soon Sy nop. i. p. 491. Stcrnb. 

 Saxif. p. 39. *. 11. a. 



Habitat ad Fretum Magellanicum. Commerson. 



Plant a caespitosa. Caules breves, procumbentes, foliosi. 

 Folia inferiora trifida ; superiora indivisa, linearia, ob- 

 tusa, glabriuscula. Flores solitarii, brevissime peduncu- 

 lati. Fednnculi nudi. Calyx glaber : laciniis linearibus, 

 obtusis. Petala obovata, calyce duplo longiora. Lam. 

 loc. cit. (ex Gall, vers.) 



I am sorry that while at Paris I neglected to examine the spe- 

 cimens of this in Commerson's Herbarium ; I have therefore 

 followed Lamarck, as being the first who described it, in prefe- 

 rence to Persoon and Sternberg, whose descriptions, and also the 

 figure of the latter, disagree with Lamarck's description in some 

 important points. 



92. S. exarata, pubescens ; foliis radicalibus quinque- tri-parti- 



tisve ; surculinis tripartitis : segmentis linearibus obtusis- 

 simis supra exaratis, caule multifloro, laciniis calycinis 

 ovato-oblongis obtusis, petalis obovatis : nervis simpli- 

 cibus. 

 S. exarata. Villars. Delph. iv. p. 674. t. 45. Lam. et De- 

 cand. Fl. Franc, iv. p. 374. 



S, ner- 



