CCASS X. ORDER H.] SAXIFRAQA. 605 



English Botany, t. 663. English Flora, vol. ii. p. 263. Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 196. Robertsonia umbrosa, Hawortk. 

 Lindley, Synopsis, p. 71 . 



/3. punctata. Leaves roundish, with sharp tooth-like serratures ; 

 fruit stalks elongated. S. punctata, Haworth. 



<y. serratifolia. Leaves oblong, ovate, smooth, light green, with 

 deep acute serratures ; petioles long. Robertsonia serrata, Haworth. 



Root fibrous. Stem short. Leaves numerous, tufted, spreading in 

 a rosaceous manner, evergreen, smooth, leathery, or somewhat fleshy, 

 roundish ovate, or oblong ovate, obtuse at the apex, and tapering at 

 the base into a broad long flat ribbed footstalk, which has its margins 

 more or less ciliated with long soft woolliness, the margins of the leaves 

 with a narrow cartilaginous border, more or less acutely crenated, or 

 sharply toothed, the terminal one broader and shorter than the rest, a 

 shining green above, paler and dull on the under side. Scape mostly 

 solitary, from a few inches to more than a foot high, round, mostly 

 pink, and clothed like the panicle with soft hairs, and more or less 

 glutinous. Panicle rather small, with short branches, somewhat race- 

 mose. Flowers not very numerous, on short very glutinous peduncles, 

 arising like the branches from the axis of a linear obtuse bractea, of a 

 red colour. Calyx of five ovate obtuse at length reflexed segments, 

 fringed with short glandular hairs. Corolla of five oblong ovate or 

 spatulate petals, of a pale pink colour, with a yellow spot near the 

 base, and more or less dotted with small crimson dots. Stamens with 

 linear filaments, longer than the petals. Anthers ovate, of two cells. 

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

 Seeds numerous. 



Habitat. Plentiful on the mountains in the South of Ireland, as at 

 Glengariff, near Bantry, and on Connor cliffs, near Dingle. Mr. J. 

 T. Mackay. (3. on the summit of Curan Tuhol, the highest moun- 

 tain in Kerry; mountains of Cunnamara; on Milrea and Croagh 

 Patrick, County of Mayo ; on Muckish, one of the highest mountains 

 in Donegal. Mr. Templeton and Sir W. J. Hooker. <y. Gap of 

 Dunloe, near Killarney. Mr. J. T. Mackay. It is also found in 

 woods in various parts of England, and about Edinburgh and Glasgow, 

 but not really wild. 



Perennial; flowering in June. 



This is a well known garden flower, common in all parts of the 

 kingdom, from the cottage garden to the crowded city's smoky plot : 

 its extreme power of accommodating its growth to all conditions, 

 even to the small box of soil hung from the window in the most 

 confined parts of the city of London, together with the great beauty 

 of its flowers, have obtained for it the name of London Pride. This 

 capability of accommodating itself to such different localities is the 

 more remarkable, as the native situation of the plant is on elevated 



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