DECANDlilA— DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 261 

 230. SAXIFRAGA. Saxifrage. 



Linn. Gen. 223. Juss. 309. FL Br. 448. Sin. in Rees's Ojcl. v.Z\. 



Tourn. t. 129. Lam. t.372. Gartn. t.o6. 

 Geum. Tourn. t. 129. 



Nat. Orel, see n, 229. 



CaL inferior, half inferior, or almost perfectly superior, of 1 

 leaf, in 5 deep, permanent segments. Pet. 5, attached to 

 the calyx, spreading, contracted at the l)a.se, not always 

 uniform, deciduous. Filam. 10, attached to the calyx, 

 awl-shaped, spreading, successively incumbent, perma- 

 nent. Antli. of 2 round lobes. Germ, superior, or more 

 or less inferior, roundish or ovate, terminating in 2 short 

 spreading styles. Stigmas obtuse, mostly downy. Cajjs. 

 nearly ovate, with 2 beaks Ibrmed of the permanent styles, 

 and opening between them, of 2, sometiuies incomplete, 

 cells, with a central receptacle. Seeds minute, numerous, 

 roundish, comjiresscd, covering the receptacle. 



Herbs^ generally perennial, various in habit, often in some 

 degree hairy and glutinous, with stalked, simple, undi- 

 vided or lobed, leaves. Flowers cither jianicled, rarely 

 solitarv, on a long naked stal/c, or corymbose at the top 

 of a round leafy stem ,- erect, white, yellow, or purple, 

 frecjuently spotted, inodorous. Natives of cool or moun- 

 tainous countries. 1 have profited by the arrangement 

 of my friend Mr. D. Don, 2): of L. Sue. v. 13, with some 

 variations. 



* Calyx rcjiexed^ inferior. Leaves undivided. Floner-stal/iS 

 2)atticlcd, erect, much taller than the stems. 



1 . S. Geum. Kidnoy-leaved Saxifrage. 



Leaves roundisli-kidney-shaped, notched, souiewiiat liairy. 

 I'\)otstalks linear, channelled, much longer than the leaves. 

 Flower-stalk panicled. Cai).sule superior. 



S. Gcum. Linn. Sp. PI. 57 1. fl'i/kl. r. 2. (i4H. En^L Hot. v. 22. 



t. IjGI. Comp. (')'>. 1)0)1 Tr. of L. Soc. v. 13.319. Lapcijr. 



Vijren.v. 1. 4(j. t.'lA. 

 S. n. 7 1 . Gmel. Sih. v. 4. I (i 1 . /. (i.'). /. 1 . 

 Sanicnia montana rotnnditolia minor. Bauh. Vin. 243. 

 Si'duin montauum rotundiloliiini minus album, nun gutlalum. 



iMnris. v. 3. 47H. //. 12 ; no Jii^nic. 

 (icum lolio circinalo Jicutc crcnato, pistillo lloiis rubro. Illagnol. 



Ifoif. f. 13 , not i/ir (iesnipfion. 



