260 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chrysosplenium. 



1 . Ch. ahernifoVium, Alternate-leaved Golden-saxi- 



frage. 



Leaves alternate. 



Ch. alternifolium. Linn.Sp.n.b^'i. mild, v, 2. 637. Fl.Br.Ai7. 



Engl. Bot. V. 1. t. 54. Hook. Scot. 128. Fl. Dan. i. 3(j6. 

 Ch. n. 1548. Hall. Hist. V. 2.254. 



Saxifraga aurea, foliis pediculis oblongis insidentibus. Raii Syn. 1 58. 

 S. aurea Dodoneei. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 707. f. Dalecli. Hist. 



1113./. 

 Sedum palustre luteum majus, foliis pediculis longis insidentibus. 



Moris. V. 3. 477. sect. 12. t. 8./. 8. 

 Long Golden Saxifrage. Pet. H. Brit. t.G.f. 10. 



On the borders of shady rivulets, rather rare. 



On Foringland heath, Norfolk j and in many parts of the north of 

 England, and Lowlands of Scotland. 



Perennial. Maij. 



Roots fibrous, creeping. Stems angular, decumbent, branched at 

 the summit only. Leaves kidney-shaped, with broad abrupt 

 notches, rough on both sides with scattered, tubular, jointed 

 hairs ; the under side pale and polished ; radical ones on long 

 stalks 3 those on the stem few and distant j the rest crowded 

 about the top, under the corymbose, almost sessile, deep-yellow 

 powers, of which the central, or earliest one, is mostly 5 -cleft, 

 and rather the largest, though this is denied by some botanists 

 on the continent to be ever the case. See Willdenow. 



2. Q\\. oppositifolmm. Opposite-leaved Golden-saxi- 



frage. 

 Leaves opposite. 

 Ch.oppositifolium. Lm».%PZ.569. Willd. v. 2. 63^. Fl. Br. 44^^. 



Engl. Bot.v.7. t.490. Curt. Loud. fasc. 2.t. 27. Hook. Scot. J 28. 



Fl. Dan. t. 365. Ehrh. Herb. 135. 

 Ch. n. 1549. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 254. 

 Saxifraga aurea. Dod. Pempt. 316./. Raii Syn. 158. Ger. Em. 



841./ Lob.Ic.6\2.f. 

 S. romanorum. Dalech. Hist. \\\4.f. 

 Sedum palustre luteum, foliis subrotundis sessilibus. Moris, v. 3. 



477. sect. \2.t.S.f.7. 

 Golden Saxifrage. Pet. H. Brit. t. 6./ 9. 



In watery shady places. 



Perennial. May. 



Paler than the preceding ; the herb about the same size, but the 

 leaves are all opposite, smaller, and less abruptly notched. Fl. also 

 smaller, and lemon -coloured, all frequently 4-cleft, and octan- 

 drous ; but by no means invariably, or generally, destitute of a 

 5 -cleft, terminal, or central^ one. See Willdenow. 



