68 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



but sHi^htly diverging. Leaves somewhat succulent, rather thin, 

 pale bright-green. 



Starry Saxifrage. 



French, Saxifrage Etoilee. 



SPECIES IV.— SAXIFRAGA GEUM. Linn. 

 Plates DXLIII. DXLIV. DXLV. 

 S. hirsuta, Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 639. 



Eootstock branched. Leaves in lax radical rosettes ; lamina 

 roundish-reniform, cordate or sub-cordate at the base, crenate 

 or crenate-serrate or dentate-serrate ; petioles elongate, slender, 

 rarely short and rather broad. Scape leafless. Plowers in lax 

 cymes, which are combined into an elongate panicle with numerous 

 branches. Bracts strap-shaped, much shorter than the pedicels. 

 Sepals free from each other and from the ovary, oblong, reflexed. 

 Petals twice as long as the sepals or more, oblanceolate-elliptical. 

 Filaments slightly dilated upwards. Capsule wholly superior. 



Var. a, crenata. 



Plate DXLIII. 



Leaves crenate, with the crenatures blunt or almost truncate, 

 distinctly and deeply cordate at the base, not at all narrowed into 

 the long slender petiole. 



Var. 3, serrata. 



Plate DXLIV. 



Leaves crenate-serrate or dentate-serrate, more or less distinctly 

 cordate at the base, not at all attenuated into the long slender 

 petiole. 



(?) Var. 7, elegans. 



Plate DXLV. 

 S. elegans, Mack. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. viii. p. 133. 



Leaves acutely serrate, scarcely cordate at the base, shortly 

 and very abruptly attenuated into the rather short somewhat 

 dilated petiole. 



Var. a in woods, but only where planted ; as in Collinton 

 Woods, Edinburgh ; Dysart Woods, Fife ; the Isle of Arran, 

 in Scotland ; and near Thorpe Arch, Yorkshire. Var. not 

 uncommon on hills in the South-west of Ireland. Var. y on the 



