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DECANDMA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 



caes 



stem upright, nearly destitute of leaves, bearing 

 one or two flowers. 



E. hot. 79<±-Fl.dan. 7\-Gun. Nor*u. t. 7-f- 1> 3, 4. 



Plant smooth: the extremities of some of the branches 

 , i viscid: Petals yellowish, streaked. Limn. Stem bearing only 



one flower ; root-leaves 3 or 5 cleft. Mr. Griffith. 



Found by Mr. Griffith on Snowden, and on the rocks in 

 Cwm Idwel very near Twll du. 



bypnoi'des. S. Stem-leaves strap-shaped, entire, or 3-cleft: suckers 



trailing: stem with few leaves. 





E. hot. 454-//. dan. 348-//. ox. xii. p. 26. 



Stcm,fruh$talks) and calyx thickly set with short hairs, ter- 

 minated by red globules ; the rest of the plant thinly set with 

 fine white hairs. Upper-leaves, both of the stem and trailing 

 suckers, generally entire ; the lower frequently 3-cleft. Petals 

 greenish white, with 3 green lines ; slightly cloven at the end. 



Ladies Cushion. Moss Saxifrage. Rocks and high moun- 

 tains. Snowdon, and other mountains in Wales, Westmore- 

 land, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Malham Cove, Chedder Rocks; 

 [About Settle. Curt. — Dovedale, Derbyshire, and northern 

 counties. Mr. Woodward. — Middleton Dale, Derbyshire. 

 Mr. Whately.] P. May— July* 



Cultivated in gardens as an edging for borders. 





(4) Stems trailing. 



i 



pahna'ta. S. Leaves hairy, palmate: the lower ones in 5 divisions; 



upper in three. Shoots ascending. Stem erect, leafv, 

 with a dense panicle of few flowers. Petals roundish. 

 jE. lot'. 



E. hot. 155-FL dan. 71-//. ox. xii. 9. 28-PIut. 222. 3 



Gouan III. 18, 3, is the plant > but very much larger than 

 the other figures or our specimens. 



Root-leaves sitting, mostly 3-cleft, wedge-shaped ; the rest 

 3-cleft, ^//covered with long jointed transparent hairs, which 

 taper to a fine point. Stem about 2 inches high, branched, sup- 

 porting from 5 to 8 flowers, each subtended by a 3-clcft floral 

 leaf. Calyx 5-cleft, segments oval, covered with short globuli- 

 ferous hairs. Petals expanding, thrice as long as the calyx, 

 oval blunt, each marked with J pale green lines. Whole plant 

 hairy ,^ the hairs jointed like a Conferva, and secreting a gluti- 

 nous liquid. Flower yellow white, with a greenish tinge. Petal* 

 3 fibred. 





