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SPECIES XVI.— S A XIP RAG A HYPNOIDES. Linn. 

 Plates DLVIII. to DLXII. 



Barren shoots generally elongated and decumbent or pro- 

 cumbent, terminating in tufts or rosettes, and with the rosettes at 

 the base of the flowering shoots forming dense cushions. Leaves 

 of the rosettes wedge-shaped, attenuated into winged petioles; 

 lamina dilated, 3- to 7-cleft, with oblong acuminate or lanceolate 

 lobes, acute at the apex; those of the barren shoots 3-cleft or 

 entire ; those on the flowering-stem few, the lowest 3- or 5-cleft, 

 the uppermost and the bracts entire. Flowering-stems terminating 

 in a few-flowered corymbose cyme. Calyx - segments ovate or 

 triangular, acute or rather acute, rather longer than the calyx- 

 tube; calyx-tube in fruit hemispherical, about as broad as long. 

 Petals obovate, 2 to 3 times as long as the calyx-segments. Capsule 

 half superior. Stem, pedicel, and sepals more or less thickly clothed 

 with short gland-tipped hairs; barren shoots and leaves with 

 elongated jointed glandular hairs. 



Sub-Species I.— Saxifraga hirta. Don. 



Plates DLVIII. to DLX. 



Barren shoots generally short when the plant is in flower, with 

 the leaves 3-cleft, lobes strapshaped, suddenly acuminate beyond 

 the middle, and acute at the apex. Calyx-segments ovate-trian- 

 gular or lanceolate - triangular, subacute. Stem, pedicels, and 

 calyces clothed with gland-tipped hairs. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Plate DLVIII. 

 S. hirta, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 134. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2291. 



Petals obovate, flat. Sepals ovate-triangular. Glandular hairs 

 numerous. 



Var. ^, affinis. 



Plate DLIX. 



S. affinis, Dm. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 134, and E. B. S. No. 2903. 



Petals oblong, inflexed at the sides. Sepals " subulate " (Bab.). 

 Glandular hairs few. 



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