614 SAXIFRAGA. [CLASS X. ORDER II. 



veins. Scape erect, variable in length, in a. seldom more than tvso 

 inches high, and bearing from two to three or four flowers; in /S. 

 much longer, and branched at the top in a paniculated manner, with 

 five or six or more flowers, and mostly scattered upon the scape are 

 several palmated leaves, and like the rest of the plant more or less 

 clothed with hairs, the pedicles short, mostly glandulous. Cahjx half 

 superior, the limb of five broad obtuse smooth segments, the base or 

 tube more or less clothed with glandular hairs. Petals white, with a 

 greenish tinge, obovate, or oblong, three ribbed, the lateral ones not 

 branched, as in ^S*. hypnoides, as long again or longer than the calyx. 

 Stamens with simple slender Jilaments, bearing ovate yellow two celled 

 anthers, the styles short, thick, somewhat spreading. Stigmas ovate, 

 downy. Capsule broadly ovate, many seeded. 



Habitat. — Rocks in mountainous districts of Wales, Ireland, and 

 Scotland, a. Rocks of Twll du and Cwm. Tdwel, North Wales. — 

 Mr. Griffith. Brandon mountain, Kerry, Ireland. — Mr. J. T- 

 Machay. /3. Cwm. Idwel, North Wales. — Mr. Griffith. On Galty 

 mountains, Tipperary, Ireland. — Mr. J. T. Machay. y. Brandon 

 mountain, Ireland.— Mr. /. T. Mackay. 



Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 



16. S. pedati'Jida, Ehrh. (Fig. 697.) Pedatifid leaved Saxifrage. 

 Lower leaves and those of the branches with very long flat channeled 

 footstalks, deeply three-cleft, the central one linear lanceolate, acute, 

 the lateral ones bifid, lanceolate, acute, spreading ; panicle sub-cymose ; 

 calyx half superior, its lobes as long as the lube. 



English Botany, t. 2273.--English Flora, vol. ii. p. 280.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 202. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 70. — D. Don in 

 Trans, of Linn. Soc. vol. 13, p. 414. — 5*. geranoides, Linn, var. ^. 

 pedatijida, Ser. — De C'and. Prod. par. 4, p. 30. 



/3. magna. (Fig. 698.) Flowers large, solitary, or few on a branched 

 scape ; leaves less divided. 



Root fibrous. Stem long, with distant leaves, crowned at the top 

 with a tuft of numerous leaves and barren trailing stems, at first erect. 

 Leaves numerous, crowded, large, on long footstalks, flat, somewhat 

 channeled, spreading, deeply cut into three spreading lobes, the central 

 one linear lanceolate, acute, or cut into three lobes, the two lateral 

 lobes deeply cleft, and sometimes each lobe is again cut into three 

 lobes, all of which are narrow, linear, sometimes broadly lanceolate, and 

 like the rest of the plant more or less clothed with rather long hairs, 

 jointed, soft, and spreading. Floivering stem Irom five to six inches 

 high, round, somewhat hairy, branched, reddish, terminating mostly 

 with numerous flowers in a sub-cymose manner, the leaves in the 

 lower part of the stem at least three lobed, in the upper mostly simply 

 linear. Flowers large, white, spreading. Calyx half superior, in five 

 lanceolate erect or somewhat spreading segments, as long as the tube, 

 often longer, and more or less clothed with short hairs, tipped with 



