82 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Var. 7, incur vi folia. 



Plate DLX. 



S. incurvifolia, D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. XIII. p. 423. 



S. cajspitosa, y incurvifolia, Bah. E. B. S. No. 2909, and Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 134. 



Segments of the leaves incurved, sometimes obtuse ; sepals 

 rather obtuse. 



On Alpine rocks. Var. a on the summit of Brandon Mountain 

 and at Hag's Glen, Kerry, and on Galtee-more, Tipperary; also 

 said by Mr. G. Don to be found in the West of Scotland ; var. ^ 

 and var. y on the summit of Brandon Mountain, with var. a. 



Scotland (?) Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



Plant growing in lax tufts. Barren shoots 1 to 4 inches long 

 at the time the plants flower. Leaves with a broad petiole, expand- 

 ing gradually towards the lamina, which is dilated and deeply 

 3-lobed, with the lateral lobes simple or %• or 3-cleft, the lobes and 

 segments nearly parallel-sided almost to the apex, where they are 

 abruptly pointed. Leaves on the flowering-stems few, 3-cleft. 

 Bracts elliptical, entire. Plowering-stem 3 to 8 inches high, 1- to 5- 

 flowered. Plowers \ inch across, white. Plant more or less thickly 

 clothed with gland-tipped pubescence. 



The S. affinis is said to differ by having subulate sepals and 

 petals incurved at the sides ; but specimens in the herbarium at 

 Kew, and in that of the Linna^an Society, collected by Professor 

 Babington, appear to me identical with those labelled S. hirta, on 

 the same authority, and contained in the same herbaria. In the 

 Smithian herbarium, however, there is a plant, sent apparently by 

 Dr. Mackay, which agrees better with the characters assigned to 

 S. affinis, having the sepals narrower and the pubescence much les^ 

 abundant than in the ordinary S. hirta. 



Of var. y I know nothing except from the plate in " Eng. 

 Bot. Suppl.," which is again given here. Professor Babington and 

 Dr. Mackay consider it a variety of S. coespitosa (S. decipiens, 

 Ehrh.) \ Mr. Bentham and Mr. H. C. Watson regard it as a form 

 of S. hirta, and Dr. Walker Arnott is uncertain to which of the 

 two it ought to be referred. If the drawing be accurate, I think 

 there can be no doubt that it is rightly placed under S. hirta. 



Sub-Species II.— Saxifraga eu-hypnoides. 



Plates DLXI. DLXII. 

 Barren shoots generally elongate when the plant is in flower, 

 with the leaves 3-cleft or entire ; lobes (or the leaf itself if not lobed) 

 linear lanceolate, acuminated from below the middle, very acute or 



