56 SWISS FLOWERS. 



same that, under the name of intermedia, or controversa, 

 may be found at the Piss evache- Waterfall. 



S. aizoides (Fig. 37) has yellow flowers in a loose panicle 

 of from two to twelve, but the leafy, branching flower- 

 stems, pinkish near the root, are often so thick, that they 

 present masses of blossom, rising above the bed of leaves 

 below, which are shining and pointed, here and there 

 fringed with a silky hair. The rather narrow yellow petals, 

 dotted with red towards the tip, allow the light-green sepals 

 to be seen between them, so that it gives the flower the 

 appearance of ten petals ; they are arranged round a kind of 

 raised disc, and the ten stamens, when the flower is ex- 

 panded, lie along the centre of each petal and sepal, their 

 anthers touching its tip. It grows easily from seed. On 

 the banks of streams, in moist places, on the Jura and Alps : 

 Mont Saleve, Mont Brison, La Tournette, Great St. Ber- 

 nard, Zermatt ; also known on the high British moun- 

 tains. 



S. oppositifolia (Fig. 38) is very different in appearance 

 from the last-mentioned ; it, too, is common in the Scotch 

 Highlands ; it loves the high mountain-ranges. It has 

 thick, small, crowded, opposite leaves, fringed with rather 

 stiff hairs, which, when the plant is in blossom, are often 

 almost hidden by the rather large flowers, which rise on stems 

 about an inch high, and are of a beautiful purple colour, the 

 white stamens just appearing in the centre. Rocks of the 



