Mr. D. Don's Monograph of the Genus Saxifraga. 437 



Tridactylites alpina. Bauh. Hist. iii. p. 754. (Jig. bene.) 

 Habitat in alpibus Carinthiacis, Carniolicis, Sabaudicis, 

 Salisburgensibus, inque Pyrenaeis. ~u . (v. v. c.) 



Planta ante anthesin dense caespitosa, laeviuseula, postmo- 

 dum surculosa, glandulis brevissimis dense pubescens. 

 Surculi erecti, elongati, graciles. Caules erecti, filiformes, 

 graciles,2 — 3-unciales, nudiusculi, 3 — 5-flori. Folia radi- 

 calia trifida, patentia, longe-petiolata ; surculina plerum- 

 que trifida rarius indivisa, erecta, etiam longe petiolata, 

 omnia supra lineis exarata : segmenta linearia, acutius- 

 cula. Pctioli anguste lineares, tenues, submembranacei, 

 supra lineA, exarati. Flores racemosi, breve pedicellati, 

 ad basin cujusque pedicelli folio tripartita bracteam men- 

 tiente instructi. Calyces obconici, dense glandulosi pu- 

 bescentes : laciniae lineares, obtusae. Petala anguste ova- 

 lia, acutiuscula, lutea, triplinervia, calyce parum longi- 

 ora : nervis simplicibus, strictis. Filamenta brevissima, 

 virescentia. Antkeree lutea?. 



The Count de Sternberg's t. 11. /. 3. is a very good repre- 

 sentation of this plant, and not inferior to Jacquin's ; but he has 

 inadvertently confounded it with the two following, from which 

 it is very distinct. His variety y I have no doubt belongs to 

 S, pygmcea. 



96. S. muscoides 9 glaberrima ; foliis radicalibus integris trifi- 

 disve ; surculinis omnibus linearibus indivisis obtusis 

 enervibus, caule gracillimo subtrifloro, petalis linearibus 

 calyce parum longioribus. 

 S. muscoides. Wulfen in Jacq. Misc. ii. p. 12.5. W'illd. Sp. 

 PI. ii. p. 656. (exclus. synon. Scop. Cam.) Lam. E?i- 

 cycl. v[. p.697. Per soon Synop. i. p. 491. Lam.etDc- 



voi. xin. 3 l cand. 



