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twice the size of S. muscohfcs , but in other respects the two very 

 similar. The E. B, figure represents that state of this variable 

 plant which has all the leaves undivided. 



11. S. hypnoides (hypnoid Saxifrage), radical leaves 3 5- 

 cleft those of the long sterile shoots (mostly) linear-lanceo* 

 late acute all nearly glabrous, flowering stem panicled. Liglttf. 

 p. 224. E.B.t.'454. 



/3. petals larger with the superior leaves (only) on the procum- 

 bent shoots undivided. S. platypetala, E. B. t. 2276 (and 



D. Don, MSS. ined. ? This has all the leaves of the shoots 

 trifid, and I do not see how it differs from some vars. of 

 5. hirta.) 



HAB. Highland mountains, very common, Lightf., D. Don. /3. Clova 

 mountains, G. Don. Fl. May, June. I/ . 



Plants growing in crowded tufts, and throwing out long slender 

 shoots, which have distant and mostly entire leaves, with clusters 

 or buds of young leaves at the extremities, and frequently in the 

 axils of the leaves themselves. The leaves nearest the root are 

 3- or 5 -fid, varying much in size and breadth, glabrous or pilose 

 about their bases. All the points are acute, in the upper ones fre- 

 quently terminated by a short bristle. Flowering stem 3 6 inches 

 long, branched and panicled, glabrous, a little viscid above : its 

 leaves few, trifid below, the rest undivided. Flowers 6 10, ra- 

 ther large, especially in /3. Petals obovate, 3 or 4 times as long 

 as the cal., cream coloured. CaL with acute segments, slightly 

 viscid. Germcn almost wholly inferior. An extremely variable 

 plant, and many of the varieties I possess border to closely upon 

 the following species, that I cannot help expressing it as my opi- 

 nion, that future observations upon individuals in their native soil, 

 aided by others in a state of cultivation, will prove them to be one 

 and the same species. 



12. S. ccespitosa (tufted Saxifrage), radical leaves 3- or mostly 

 5 -cleft those of the sterile shoots mostly 3-, rarely and only 

 below, 5 -cleft all more or less hairy, flowering stem subpu- 

 bescent panicled. Linn. Sp. Pi. p. 578. Gunn. Norv. /. 7. 



/. 3, 4. S. kirta, E. B. t. 2291. D. Don, MSS. ined. 

 S. Sternlergii, Siernl. Sax. p. 56. /. 24 (cult, plant). S pal- 

 mata, Sturm, Deutsch. Fl. no. 27. 



/3. shoots long, leaves dark green ciliated only at the base. S. 

 Icele-virens, D. Don, MSS. ined. 



y. shoots rather short, leaves ciliated only* especially near the 

 base, 1 3 flowers upon the stem. S. elongella, E. B. 

 t. 2277. D. Don, MSS. ined. 



8. shoots very short, leaves dense ciliated only at the base, flow- 

 ering stem short 1 2-flowered. S. denudata, D. Don, 

 MSS. ined. and S. condensata? ejusd. (according to his descr.). 

 The same as this var., only more hairy, is the S. c&spitosa, 



E. B. t. 794, and the S, grcenlandica Linn, and Gunn. Norv* 



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