DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Saxifrasa. 269 



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Sedum alpinum, floribus liiteis maculosls. Bauh. Pin. 284. 



S. alpinum piimum. Clus. Pan. 484. /. 483. Ger. Em. 515. 



/.516. 

 S. minus sextum. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 59./. GO. 

 S. parvum montanum luteum, Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 693. f. 



On the borders of mountain rills, in a black boggy soil. 



On Ingleborough liill, Yorkshire^, and on most of the Westmore- 

 land and Scottish mountains. 



Perennial. June — September. 



Stems tufted, decumbent at the base, with many short, leafv, trail- 

 ing shoots ; the flowering part ascending, 3 or 4 inches high, 

 leafy, smooth or hairy, unbranched ; panicled at the summit. 

 Leaves most crowded towards the root ; the upper ones most 

 scattered ; all sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, variously fringed 

 with sharp, capillary teeth, which are scarcely ever entirely 

 wanting. Panicle leafy, generally simjjle, of 3 or 4 Jiowers ; 

 sometimes branched and many-flowered ; the stalks glutinous 

 and densely hairy. Cal. of 5f broad leaves, encompassing the 

 middle of the germen, and at all times widely spreading. Pet. 

 a little longer than the calyx, obovate, or tongue-shaped, triple- 

 ribbed, bright yellow, partly orange-coloured, besprinkled with 

 scarlet dots. Floral receptacle broad, depressed, surrounding 

 the bases of the awl-shaped, spreading styles. Stigmas obtuse, 

 concave, downy. Caps, rather more than half superior when 

 ripe, crowned with the slightly elongated styles. 



Dwarf alpine specimens, whose leaves are less evidently fringed, 

 have been taken for S. autumnalis ; and are undoubtcdlv what 

 many authors have described under that name, though a very 

 little investigation is sufiicient to prove them the aizoides. 

 What Linmeus intended by his autumnalis is quite another 

 question. It ap])ears that, at onetime, he gave this name to the 

 Hirculus, figured in Breynius, t. 48, which plate he has marked 

 autumnalis. At other times lie hud in view the fringed state of 

 aizoides, considering the more naked-leaved si)ecimens as the 

 real aizoides, though his authentic ones thus named are very 

 certainly fringed. His autumnalis therefore cannot be quoted 

 as a synonym of either of these species, nor is the name at all 

 suitable to them. The wliole history of this confusion was 

 given above 30 years ago in the 1st vol. of P.ugli.Ji Botany, and 

 Dr. Wahlenberg's remark confirms what is there advanced. 



**** Calyx spreading. Leaves partly lobcd. Stigvias mosllij 

 dcTdcny. Fl<nv('riii<:; stems erect, more or less leafy. 



9. S. granii/ata. AVHiite Meadow Saxifrage. 



Leaves kiilnev-slinpecl, lobcd. Stem panielcd, lealy. Hoot 

 granulated. Ciciiiicii liall-inli rioi-. 



