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DECANDRIA.—MONOGYNIA.—DIGYNIA. 
The only difference between @. and the first variety is, that the segments of the 
leaves are incurved in &. One flower only was found on the stem of each 
in the wild state, but by cultivation they produced from three to nine flowers 
as stated by Sir. J. E. Smith. : 
S. hirta, Hairy Alpine, Saxifrage. 
Radical leaves, rather crowded, five or three cleft, points veiny, fringed. 
Flowers few, corymbose. German half inferior. Calyx acute. Petals 
obovate, triple ribbed. 
S. hirta, Sm. Compend. p. 66. E. B. t. 2291, Sm. E. Flora. p. 275. 
Hab. Moist rocks on Galtymore, county of Tipperary, and sides of rivulets near 
the summit of Magilly-cuddy’s reeks, county of Kerry 1805. 
S. levis, Smooth Alpine Saxifrage. 
Radical leaves five cleft; those of the trailing shoots mostly three cleft, fringed 
below; lobes linear, pointed, smooth; segments of the calyx awl-shaped, 
pointed ; petals obovate. 
S. levis J. T. Mackey, MSS. inedited. 
S. offinis Don. in Tr. of L. Soc. and-Sm. E. Flora. vol. 2. p. 175. 
Hab. Ona Rock on the top of Brandon mountain county of Kerry 1805. Herb. 
bright green, densly tufted before flowering, afterwards throwing out many 
procumbent, lax, reddish, distantly leafy shoots, several inches long, the 
whole besprinkled with soft, slender, glutinous hairs. Leaves much elon- 
gated, linear at the base and fringed, divided about one third of their 
length into three lobes, which are smooth and shining, the lateral lobes of 
the radical leaves especially, cloven; all of them linear, or slightly lan- 
ceolate, acute, partly bristle pointed. Stems three or four inches high, 
erect, corymbose, bearing a few undivided, lanceolate leaves; and three to 
five flowers, on glandular or hairy upright stalks. German in like manner, 
hairy and viscid. Calyx half inferior; its segments spreading, at length 
recurved, acute, minutely bristle-pointed, slightly glandular. Petals white, 
obovate, twice the length of the Calyx, triple ribbed. Stigmas retuse, 
cloven, recurved, very hairy and glandular. 
S. hypnoides. Mossy Saxifrage, or Ladies’ Cushion. 
Radical leaves three or five cleft; those of the long procumbent shoots un- 
divided; all bristle-pointed and fringed. Segments of the Calyx ovate, 
pointed. Petals obovate. Stigmas nearly smooth. 
S. Aypnoides, Sm. E. Flora, vol. 2. p. 277. also S. elongella, p. 279, in my 
opinion. 
Hab. Plentiful on all the limestone mountains near Sligo. 
I have cultivated the Scotch S. elongella for many years, together with the 
Sligo plant, and see no difference between them. 
SCLERANTHUS, 
S. annus, Sm. Compend. p. 66. E. B. t. 351. 
Hab. Gravelly banks of the Dodder above Templeogue. 
