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SAXIFRAGACEJ5. I. SAXIFRAGA. 



the base ; calycine segments ovate. I/ . H. S. flagellaris, R. 

 Br. in Ross' voy. ed. 2. vol. 2. p. 192. D. Don, in Lin. trans. 

 13. p. 373. Hook, et Arn. in bot. Beech, voy. 1. p. 124. S. 

 setigera, Pursh, fl. amer. sept. 1. p. 312. 



FlagellcE-bearmg Saxifrage. Fl. May, July. Clt. 1819. 

 PI. i foot. 



49 S. BRUNONIANA (Wall. cat. no. 442.) tufted ; stems 1-4- 

 flowered, bearing a few glandular hairs ; stolons or surculi capil- 

 lary, without any tuft of leaves at the points, rising from the 

 axils of the leaves, as in S.jlagcllaris ; leaves linear, with car- 

 tilaginous ciliately serrate edges, and terminated by a stiff mu- 

 crone ; cauline leaves fewer, shorter ; sepals ovate, very blunt ; 

 petals obovate-oblong, 3-nerved, yellow, much longer than the 

 calyx; stigmas small. 1( . F. Native of Nipaul, in Emodi, and 

 Kamaon. Flowers yellow. Pedicels slender, elongated. 



Brown's Saxifrage. PI. -j to -J foot. 



50 S. BRACHY'PODA (D. Don, in Lin. trans. 13. p. 378.) plant 

 tufted ; stems dense, simple, gemmiferous ; leaves dense, linear, 

 spreading, ciliated with bristles, 1 -nerved, full of pellucid 

 dots, of a different colour beneath ; flowers solitary, terminal ; 

 pedicels clothed with unequal glandular hairs ; sepals lanceo- 

 late, mucronate, ciliately serrulated, 3-nerved; petals obo- 

 vate, 5-nerved, bluntish ; stigmas thick, diverging. Tf.. F. 

 Native of Nipaul, in Emodi, Gosaingsthan, and Kamaon. S. 

 glandulosa, Wall. cat. no. 442. Pedicels nearly the length of 

 the flowers. Leaves glaucous beneath, quite glabrous, very 

 numerous, with revolute edges. Buds echinated. Flowers 

 yellow. 



Short-peduncled Saxifrage. PI. \ foot. 



51 S. FIMBRIA'TA (Wall. cat. no. 443,) stem simple, gemmi- 

 ferous, very leafy, bearing scattered glandular hairs ; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, very acute, of a different colour beneath, ciliated with stiff 

 bristles, marked above with fine parallel wrinkled lines : nerves 

 5-7, nearly parallel, reticulated and pellucid ; flowers small, sub- 

 racemose, but often solitary ; pedicels short, rather hispid ; sepals 

 lanceolate, rather cartilaginously serrulated, mucronate. 2 . F. 

 Native of Nipaul, at Gosaingsthan and Kamaon. 



/VinoW-leaved Saxifrage. PI. -| foot. 



52 S. AIZOIDES (Lin. spec. p. 576.) stems leafy ; leaves linear, 

 mucronate, glabrous, edged with stiff" ciliae ; calycine segments 

 broadly ovate ; petals oblong-lanceolate, 3-nerved : nerves sim- 

 ple. %. H. Native on the Alps of Switzerland, Lapland, 

 Styria, north of England and Scotland, on the borders of moun- 

 tain rills, in a black boggy soil. In North America, in the bar- 

 ren country from lat. 64 to the Arctic sea and islands ; in 

 swamps and rivulets on the Rocky Mountains; also of Labrador 

 and Newfoundland. Smith, engl. bot. t. 39. Sternb. sax. p. 25. 

 t. 8. f. 1. Sturm, deutschl. fl. 35. with a figure. S. autumnalis, 

 Lin. spec. p. 575. Fl. dan. t. 72. Scop. earn. 1. p. 293. t. 14. 



Leptasea aizoides, Haw. enum. sax. p. 39 Breyn. cent. 106. 



t. 48. Moris, hist. 3. p. 477. sect. 12. t. 6. f. 3. Plant green, 

 growing in tufts. Surculi numerous, procumbent, leafy. Stems 

 erect, leafy, many flowered, clothed with viscid down. Flowers 

 somewhat racemose, yellow ; calycine segments furnished with 

 a membranous margin, which is jagged at the apex ; petals 

 spotted with copper-coloured dots. 



Var. fi, crbcea (Gaudin, syn. sax. in Meisn. anz. 1818. p. 66. 

 fl. helv. 3. p. 102.) petals copper-coloured. !(.. H. S. aizoides 

 p, D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 366. Leptksea aizoides crocea, Haw. 

 enum. sax. 40. S. atrorubens, Bertol. in Desv. journ. bot. 4. 

 p. 76. and amoen. acad. 1819. Sternb. rev. sax. suppl. 1. p. 10. 

 There are varieties of this with one or many flowered stems. 



Far. y, Integra (Ser. in D. C. prod. 4. p. 47.) leaves not 

 ciliated. If.. H. S. aizoides, Lin. spec. 576. Leptisea aizoides 

 /3 Integra, Haw. enum. sax. p. 39. 



Aizoon-like Saxifrage. Fl. July, Aug. Britain. PL ^ foot. 



53 S. BRONCHIA'LIS (Lin. spec. 572.) suffrutescent ; leaves 

 crowded, linear-subulate, triquetrous, mucronate, ciliated with 

 stiff spinules ; calycine segments ovate ; petals oblong ; stems 

 few-leaved and many flowered. If. . H. Native of Siberia ; 

 north-west coast of America, Behring's Straits, Kotzebue's 

 Sound, height of land at the portage of the Columbia river, on 

 the west side of the Rocky Mountains. Cili&ria bronchialis, 

 Haw. rev. sax. 43. Grnel. sib. 4. p. 164. t. 65. f. 2. Surculi 

 numerous, erect, branched. Panicle terminal, few or many 

 flowered. Flowers small, cream-coloured ; petals obovate-ob- 

 long, 3-nerved, with numerous minute copper-coloured dots ; 

 anthers copper-coloured. This is very nearly allied to S. tricus- 

 pidata, but differs in the want of the lateral points to the 

 leaves. 



Var. j3, Lenensis (D. Don, in Lin. trans. 13. p. 377.) surculi 

 shorter ; leaves longer, spreading ; panicle larger, spreading, fas- 

 tigiate. % . H. Native of Siberia, at the river Lena. 



Bronchial Saxifrage. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1819. PI. J ft. 



54 S. TENE'LLA (Wulf. in Jacq. coll. 3. p. 144. t. 17.) plant 

 tufted ; leaves crowded, linear-subulate, flat, pungent, ciliated ; 

 stems slender, few-leaved, few-flowered ; calycine segments 

 linear-lanceolate ; petals obovate. If. . H. Native of Carinthia, 

 on the Alps. S. nitida, Wulf. in Jacq. coll. 3. t. 10. f. 4. Sur- 

 culi numerous. Stems numerous, erect. Leaves imbricated, 

 keeled below, glabrous. Peduncles by threes, long, capillary, 

 1 -flowered, beset with glandular hairs, as well as the calyxes. 

 Flowers white, spotless ; anthers yellow. 



Delicate Saxifrage. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1819. PI. -J to | ft. 



55 S. FILICAU'LIS (Wall. cat. no. 445.) stems filiform, much 

 branched, beset with capitate hairs ; branches filiform, 1-flower- 

 ed ; leaves linear, sessile, full of pellucid dots, nerveless, cili- 

 ated by capitate bristles ; sepals lanceolate-oblong, bluntish ; 

 petals obovate, obtuse, 3-nerved ; styles much elongated ; 

 stigmas thickish, arched. Ij. . F. Native of Nipaul. Branches 

 dense. Flowers golden yellow. Perhaps distinct from S. bra- 

 chypoda. 



Thread- stemmed Saxifrage. PI. -j foot. 



56 S. KRUHSIA'NA (Fisch. in litt. ex D. C. prod. 4. p. 46.) 

 plant tufted ; leaves dense, imbricate, ovate, ciliated, nerveless ; 

 flowers by threes ; sepals lanceolate, obtuse ; petals elliptic, 

 much longer than the calyx, with pinnate nerves ; capsule some- 

 what hemispherical ; styles arched. 1.H. Native of Siberia, 

 near Ijiga, where it was found by Kruhs, according to Fischer. 

 This species is very distinct from S, aspera, in the leaves being 

 oval, not linear-ovate, in being nerveless, not 3-nerved, and in 

 the petals being feather-nerved, &c. S. glandulosa, Willd. herb, 

 ex Stev. in litt. 1821. 



Kruhs' s Saxifrage. PI. foot. 



57 S. STELLERIA'NA (Merk ex Fisch. in litt. ex D. C. prod. 4. 

 p. 46.) plant tufted ; leaves of the surculi or sterile branches 

 small, numerous, oblong, ciliated and mucronate, hardly petio- 

 late : cauline ones distant : uppermost ones acute, not ciliated ; 

 stems branched, 5-7-flowered ; flowers distant ; pedicels and 

 calyxes glabrous ; calycine lobes oblong, acute ; petals oblong, 

 3-nerved, exceeding the calyx ; ovarium conical ; styles hardly 

 diverging, length of the petals. 1. H. Native of Eastern 

 Siberia. 



Steller's Saxifrage. PI. \ foot. 



58 S. MULTIFLORA (Ledeb. dec. pi. in mem. acad. des. scienc. 

 petersb. 5. p. 532. no. 18. fl. ross. alt. ill. t. 335.) leaves lan- 

 ceolate-linear, scattered, cuspidate, remotely and setaceously 

 ciliated, and covered with cobwebbed villi ; corymbs terminal, 

 many flowered ; calycine segments ovate, obtuse ; petals elliptic, 

 bluntish, 1 -nerved, more than thrice the length of the calyx ; 

 stamens exceeding the corolla. 1.H. Native of Altaia. It 

 differs from S. aspera and S. bronchialis, and all the nearly 



