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obtuse, short, and often very broad, not spathulate, copiously 
fringed with jointed hairs of various lengths, the short ones 
often glandular. It is true that, in this case, the lobes of the 
leaves are not rounded at the extremity, as in the wild spe- 
cimens from Twll da; and though they are always much 
more obtuse than in the cultivated varieties of S. hypnoides, 
hereafter enumerated, they are sometimes terminated by a 
point; but it will be found that the point is not cartilaginous, 
as in S. hypnoides, but only a terminal jointed glandular hair, in 
every respect similar to those observable in the margin of the 
lobes. The ribs of the leaf will also be found rather different ; 
the broad common base of the lobes having 5 ribs, instead 
of 3, uniting much lower down the foot-stalk than is common 
to S. hypnoides; thus the middle lobe is 3-ribbed at the base, 
and the lateral lobes 2-ribbed, and sometimes 3-ribbed; all 
of them furnished with lateral veins above. The radical leaves 
are usually 5-lobed. The petals, notwithstanding their size, . 
are merely obovate, and 3-ribbed, never furnished with lateral 
veins, as in many of the wild and most of the cultivated states 
of S. hypnoides. The germen in this, as well as in the wild 
. plant from Twll dá, is remarkable for its broad rounded base, 
which, with the very broad and obtuse segments of the calyx 
and leaves, fully establishes, as I think, the relationship 
between the cultivated Snowdon plant, and the wild one from 
Twil dà, and will keep both from all the varieties, wild or 
cultivated, of S. hypnoides, as essentially distinct, though 
assuredly very nearly connected. The seeds of the cultivated 
plant are rough, and, like those of S. hypnoides, in the Twll 
dà specimens, they seem wholly smooth; but as they are 
immature and, I think, abortive, I do not consider that cir- 
cumstance important. Of the wild state of the Snowdon plant 
I know nothing, and I have never been able to find a Sazi- 
frage at all resembling S. cespitosa upon Snowdon, so that it 
must be rare. Of the authenticity of the plant now in culti- 
vation, as having been really gathered spomina Pe 
not the least doubt. 
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