74 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Flowers few, in 1- to S-flowcred cymes terminating the stem and 

 branches, which are so disposed as to give a corymbose appearance 

 to the inflorescence. Sepals combined at the base for one-fourth 

 of their length, and adhering for that distance to the ovary, 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, spreading. Petals once and 

 a half to twice as long as the sepals, elliptical-oblanceolate, bright 

 yellow dotted with red towards the base, without callosities. Capsule 

 two-thirds superior. 



In wet places on rocks, and by the sides of rills. Plentiful in 

 mountainous districts, and often descendins" aloni:? the course of 

 streams into the low country. I have myself found it on low 

 ground by the side of the turnpike-road near Durris, Kincardine- 

 shire, and at Ascog, Isle of Bute ; and Dr. P. W. Maclagan dis- 

 covered it on rocks on the Ayrshire coast ; in all of which places 

 it has not been brought down from high ground by streams. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 



and Autumn. 



Flowering-stems 2 to 6 inches long, generally decumbent at the 

 base. Leaves spreading, crowded on the barren shoots and at the 

 base of the flowering-stems, ^ to 1 inch long, generally with a few 

 ciliae ; when these are present, it is the S. autumnalis of Linnaeus, 

 and when absent his S. Aizoides. Plowers \ inch across, varying 

 in the intensity of the yellow colour and in the number of orange or 

 red dots. Capsule nearly as long as broad, scarcely \ inch either 

 way, olive-colour. Seeds yellowish-brown, rugose. Plant growing 

 in dense masses, bright-green ; the stems clothed at the base with 

 persistent decayed brown leaves. 



Yelloio Mountain Saxifrage. 



French, Sctodfraye faux Aizoon. German, Traubenhluthiger Steinbrech. 



Section V.— NEPHROPHYLLUM. Tausch. 



Elowering-stem leafy, without leafy barren shoots at the base. 

 Leaves alternate, often reniform and palmately lobed. Hairs arti- 

 culated to the stem-leaves. Flowers usually white. Sepals erect 

 or spreading, combined at the base and adhering to the ovary, 

 more rarely nearly free from each other and from the ovary. 



SPECIES X.—SAXIFRAGA TRID ACT YLITES. Linn. 



Plate DLII. 



Annual or biennial, without barren shoots. Stem erect, pani- 

 culately branched. Lowest leaves indistinctly stalked, broadly 



