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Pisii, in montibus Limoni, aliisque locis alpinis Monregalensibus. 
SS eee o nova et distincta species colitur m hortis Londin- 
ensibus, referente cl. Smithio, cui plura specimina mis1, 
ecimens of 8. lingulata collected by Bellardi in Piedmont were 
distributed in James Dickson's Collection of Dried Plants, fasc. 3, 
1791, No. 63, accompanied by a printed ticket as follows:— 
“ Saxifraga callosa, Smith, Obs. Bot. ined. Foltis radicalibus 
ageregatis lineari-lingulatis margine cartilagineo-tuberculatis, caule 
paniculato, Sm, — Piedmont, Dr. Bellardi, August. 
Smith’s name thus antedates Bellardi’s by a year, but it has 
never been accepted by other botanists. In Rees’s Cyclopaedia, 
vol. xxxi. 1819, under Sazifraga, No. 2, Smith retained the name 
S. callosa, however, and quoted as a synonym 9. longifolia, Lapeyr., 
from which A. P. De Candolle had carefully distinguished it four 
years previously. ; = =a 
S. lingulata, Bellardi, did not obtain recognition as a distinct 
species until thirteen years had elapsed after its publication. 
Lamarck and De Candolle in 1805 quoted it as a synonym 0 
S. longifolia, Lapeyr. (Fl. Franc. ed. 3, vol. iv. p. 359) ; and Stern- 
berg in 1810 referred it to S. longifolia, var. a (Rev. Saxifr. p. 1). 
In 1815, however, De Candolle recognised it as a distinct species 
(Fl. Franc. ed. 3, vol. vi. p. 516); and in 1819 Bertoloni gave a 
long and careful description of it in his Flora Alpium Apuanarum 
(Amoen. Ital. p. 358). 
Saxifraga australis was described in. 1820 by Moricand, Flora 
Veneta, p. 431, from material collected on Mt. Virgine near Naples 
by Gussone, who sent it to Moricand under the name. S. A/zoon. 
Moricand’s diagnosis is as follows :— i 
“ Sazifraga australis, nob. 8. foliis radicalibus rosulatis lanceolatis 
margine incrustatis basi ciliatis; caulinis ovatis subdenticulatis 
acutis ; caule glabro anguloso, panicula ramosa multiflora ; calycibus 
glabris, petalis ovatis obtusis calyce triplo longioribus.” 
In 1830 Seringe in }. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 20 gave an amended 
description of S. australis, as follows :— 
“ §. australis (Moric! fl. ven. i, p. 431) glaberrima, caule anguloso, 
foliis rosularum oblongo-spathulatis margine crustaceis basi ciliatis, 
caulinis oblongis subdenticulatis acutiusculis, panicula ramosa 
multiflora, petalis ovatis obtusis calyce multo longioribus, stylis 
- per anthesin rectis adscendentibus. Planta rhizocarpica. In monte: 
Virgine prope Neapolim Nullo modo differt ex Moretti 
a S. longifoli i 
Sard. vol. ii. 1840-1843, p. 146, t. 74. Seon le. 59 (Syl. FI. 
Nap. p. 200) also Bi abo S. thyrsoidea, Tausch in Syll. Ratisb.. 
vol. ii, 1828, p. 240, to S. lingulata, var. australis. This reduction, 
however, escaped the notice of subsequent botanists, and S. thyrsoidea 
was lost sight of. Engler did not account for it in his monogra 
of Saxifraga, and it appeared as an independent species in the 
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