570 A NEW BRITISH SAXIFRAGE. 
I should hope, to mark a species even among a set so proverbially 
undefineable. 
I propose to dedicate this plant to its discoverer, William 
Andrews, Esq., of Dublin, who has paid much attention to the 
Trish Saxifrages, particularly those of the umbrosa group, and who 
deserves much credit for the patience and success with which he 
has worked out this very puzzling set of plants. The following 
are its characters :— 
Saxifraga Andrewsii; caule brevi, foliis rosulatis patentibus 
.spathulatis obtusis glabris crassiuseulis basi in petiolum subci- 
liatum angustatis, obtuse dentatis margine tenui membranaceo, 
floribus paniculatis, pedunculo pedicillisque longiusculis glandu- 
loso-hirsutis, sepalis basi coalitis ovario adhærentibus recurvo- 
patentibus (nec reflexis) oblongis obtusis glabriusculis margine 
anguste membranaceis, petalis calyce triplo longioribus late ellip- 
ticis vix emarginatis punctatis. 
The history of the discovery I shall give in Mr. Andrews’ own 
words :— With regard to my Saxifrage,” he writes, “I have but 
little to say beyond the following. Professor Allman, on the 25th 
of June, 1845, read a paper at one of the sectional meetings of 
the British Association, held at Cambridge, conveying my views 
of the Robertsonian Saxifrages. In the views, which were alto- 
gether in opposition to those advanced by Mr. Babington, 
and published by him in the Annals of Natural History for June, 
1844, I stated, as my opinion, that all the forms of Geum and um- 
brosa of Ireland, were identical with those of the Pyrennees, and 
that forms of leaves of Gewm, equally as obtusely crenate as those 
of the Pyrennees, were met with in Kerry. Further, that all these 
forms passed so completely into each other, that neither Airsuta, 
elegans, nor serratifolia had any pretension to specific difference. 
This view of the subject has since been confirmed by Mr. Spruce, 
as noted in the London Journal of Botany for July, 1846; but 
Mr. Babington has not yet found time to correct any of the state- 
ments in the Journal where they have been so positively asserted 
by him. To strengthen still further my points, I assiduously, in 
September, 1845, collected in my rambles in Kerry, every form — 2 
