Saxifraga.] SAXIFRAGES. 65 



Geum, E. Bot.t. 1561. ( Leaves smaller than usual). Robertsonia 

 dentata, Haworth in App. Syn. PL Succ. 



7. leaves light green, glabrous and shining, sharply toothed. 

 Robertsonia polita, Haworth. 



8. leaves hairy on both sides, smaller than in any of the pre- 

 ceding ; flowers cream-coloured, spotless ; scape slender. 



Sheltered spot below Turk Waterfall, Killarney, and only there. 

 &. The most common var. Mangerton and other mountains in Kerry, 

 Priest's Leap and other mountains near Bantry, abundant. 7. On 

 Connor-hill, near Dingle. S. On Connor-hill, near Dingle, with the 

 last. Fl. June. %. 



2. S. elegans. Small round-leaved Saxifrage. Leaves orbicu- 

 lar, smooth, shining; footstalks linear (flat above), hairy on the 

 edges, about the same length as the leaves ; scape panicled ; 

 capsule superior ; flowers spotted with red. — S. Geum. S. Hooker, 

 Br. Fl. I. p. 191. 



Found on a rock on the summit of Turk Mountain, Killarney, in 

 1805. FL May, June. %. — Readily distinguished from every other 

 species and variety of the group to which it belongs by its stellate form, 

 and round, smooth, shining leaves, which have short and flattened foot- 

 stalks. It is, from its low mode of growth, the best suited for edgings 

 of any of the London Pride tribe. I have cultivated this plant since 

 1807, and it has always retained its original appearance. I have, there- 

 fore, for the present ventured to give it the rank of a species, until I 

 have an opportunity of studying its characters more fully, by raising it 

 from seed. 



3. S. hirsuta, Linn. Hairy Saxifrage. Leaves oval, with 

 sharp cartilaginous notches, slightly hairy, heart-shaped at the 

 base; footstalks linear, channelled, much longer than the leaves; 

 panicle somewhat forked ; capsule superior. Br. Fl. 1. p. 192. 

 E. FL v. ii. p. 202. E. Bot. t. 2322. 



On fragments of rocks at the Gap of Dunloe, near Killarney, 1805. 

 Fl. May— -June. %. — Larger than S. Geum, to which species it is 

 nearly allied. Leaves roundish, oval, always longer than they are 

 broad, with copious, rather acute serratures, the terminal tooth broad 

 and short ; upper surface perfectly smooth, deep green, the under one 

 purplish, slightly hairy. Footstalks linear throughout, channelled, very 

 hairy, tapering from the base upwards. Panicle hairy and viscid, 

 much branched, indistinctly forked, the earliest flowers from the forks. 

 The variety mentioned by Don and Smith, with roundish heart-shaped 

 leaves, is not of Irish growth, and is probably only a variety of S. 

 Geum. I had it sent me, many years ago, from the Oxford Gardei', 

 and from the Rev. W. T. Bree. Our Irish plant exactly agrees, in 

 every respect, with the specimens of S. hirsuta in the Linnaiau Her- 

 barium. 



4. S. umbrosa, Linn. London-pride Saxifrage, or JVbne so 

 pretty. Leaves obovate, smooth, with sharp cartilaginous 

 notches, tapering at the base into dilated flat footstalks; panicle 

 rather racemose; capsule superior. Br. FL l.p. 192. E. Fl. 

 v. ii. p. 263. E. Bot. t. 663. 



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