SAXIFRAGACE^. 69 



top of Turk Mountain, Killarney ; Connor Hill and the Gap of 

 Dunloe, Kerry. 



[England, Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



E/Osettes of leaves close to the ground or shortly stalked ; the 

 leafstalks 1 to 5 inches long ; the lamina -^ to 3 inches in diameter, 

 with a cartilaginous margin varying from very hluntly crenate to very 

 sharply serrate, hairy or glabrous. Scapes 2 inches to 1 foot high, 

 bearing a long panicle with rather short lateral branches. Flowers 

 J inch across, white. Sepals generally tinged with red. Petals with 

 two yellow spots at the base, and with or without red dots. Anthers 

 reddish. Capsule ^ inch long exclusive of the beaks, which are 

 short and diverging. Leaves deep green, rather thin, their surfaces, 

 petioles, and the scape more or less clothed with glandular hairs. 



S. elegans of Mackay is merely a small form of var. 3. 



Var. 7, of which I have specimens from Dr. W. Andrews, col- 

 lected in the Gap of Dunloe, is a very puzzling plant, agreeing in 

 some respects better with S. umbrosa than with S. Geum ; the leaves 

 are more spreading than in the other forms of the latter, on much 

 shorter and broader petioles, which are enlarged at the apex. On 

 the whole, however, it seems best placed under S. Geum. 



Kidney -leaved London- JPride. 

 French, Saxifrage BenoUe. 



SPECIES(?)V.— SAXIPRAGA HIRSUTA. Linn. 

 Plate DXLVI. 



E^ootstock branched. Leaves in lax radical rosettes ; lamina 

 oval or roundish-oval, sub-cordate or abrupt at the base, crenate- 

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



On mountains in the South-west of Ireland ; Gap of Dunloe, 

 Glen Curragh, and Connor Hill, Kerry ; Hungry Hill, Cork. 



Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



This plant comes very near S. Geum, of which it is probably 

 merely a sub-species, or perhaps even only a variety, the chief differ- 

 ence being that the leaves are longer than broad, and less distinctly 

 cordate at the base ; they are also generally more hairy. The flowers 



