604 SAXIFRAGA. [CLASS x. ORDER 11. 



This species, together with its varieties, are all referred, and probably 

 with great reason, by De Candolle in his Prodromus, Pars. 4. p. 42. to 

 the following. 



6. S. hirsu'ta, Linn. (Fig. 685.) Hairy Oval-leaved Saxifrage. 

 Leaves ovate, rotunda te, more or less heart-shaped at the base, with 

 sharp cartilaginous teeth, hairy; footstalk long, linear, channeled; 

 scape loosely paniculated; calyx segments obtuse, reflexed ; capsule 

 superior, ovate. 



English Botany, t. 2322. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 262. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 195. Robertsonia hirsuta, Haworth. Lindley, 

 Synopsis, p. 71. 



/9. depilala. Leaves roundish, heart-shaped, smooth on both sides. 

 Don. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 71. 



Root fibrous. Stem short, bearing a tuft of numerous spreading 

 leaves. Leaves evergreen, roundish, ovate, with numerous rather acute 

 teeth, each tooth broad and short, with a narrow cartilaginous edge, 

 the upper surface dark green, smooth and shining, rarely scattered over 

 with hairs, the under side a dull purplish green and hairy, the foot- 

 stalks much longer than the leaves, linear, tapering from the dilated 

 base, channeled, and mostly very hairy. Scape erect, round, about a 

 foot high, much branched, in a spreading somewhat forked paniculated 

 manner, hairy, and viscid. Flowers numerous, on short peduncles^ 

 from the axis of a short linear bractea, those arising from the axis of 

 the branches much longer, and the earliest in flower. Calyx of five 

 oblong obtuse reflexed segments. Petals oblong or oblong elliptic, 

 about as long -again as the calyx, white, with yellow spots near the 

 base, and numerous crimson ones to about the middle of the petal. 

 Stamens with linear filaments, nearly as long as the petals. Anthers 

 ovate, of two lobes. Styles short, spreading. Stigmas small. Capsule 

 ovate. Seeds numerous, small. 



Habitat. On fragments of rocks at the Gap of Dunloe, near Kil- 

 larney, Ireland. Mr. J. T. Machay. 



Perennial ; flowering in May and June. 



The variety above quoted is probably not different from S. Geum, 

 and indeed it is doubtful if S. hirsuta and S. Geum are really 

 different species, for not only is it the opinion of De Caudolle that 

 they are only varieties of one species, but other Botanists entertain the 

 same views ; and the Rev. W. T. Bree, who, 'as is stated in British 

 Flora, p. 195, has cultivated and studied the Saxifrages very assi- 

 duously, says, that it is certainly a hybrid between the preceding and 

 the following. 



7. S. umbro'sa, Linn. (Fig. 686.) London-pride Saxifrage, or 

 None-so- Pretty. Leaves roundish-ovate, crenated, with a cartilaginous 

 margin, smooth ; the footstalks flat, dilated, linear, the margins ciliated ; 

 scape with a panicle ; calyx segments ovate, very obtuse, reflexed ; 

 capsule ovate, superior. 



