CL. X.] DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 195 



4. P. secunda. Serrate Winter-green. Leaves egg-shaped, acute, 



serrate ; flowers drooping, all inclining one way. Stalk about four 



inches long, with a dense cluster of white, drooping flowers. Perennial : 

 flowers in July and August: grows in'fir-woods in Scotland: not common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 517. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 250. 634. 



5. P. uniflora. Single-flffwered Winter-green. Stalk single-flowered ; 



leaves egg-shaped, acute, serrate. Root creeping : stems reclining, 



an inch or two long, simple : leaves egg-shaped, acute, sharply serrate : 

 stalk about three inches long, erect, bearing a single, large, white fra- 

 grant flower. Perennial : flowers in July : grows in woods in Scotland : 

 rare. Fir-wood near Brodie House; Knock of Alves, near Elgin; Coul, 

 in Ross-shire. Eng. Bot. vol. iii. pi. 146. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 258. 635. 



DIGYNIA. 

 5. CHRYSOSPLE'NIUM. GOLDEN-SAXIFRAGE. 



Calyx superior, of one leaf, deeply divided into four or five 

 unequal, spreading, permanent, coloured segments. Corolla none. 

 Nectary a glandular ring within the insertion of the stamens. 

 Filaments eight or ten, awl-shaped, erect, very short; anthers 

 roundish, two-lobed. Germen inferior, roundish, terminated by 

 two awl-shaped styles, as long as the stamens. Stigmas obtuse. 

 Capsule two-beaked, one-celled, two-valved. Seeds roundish, 

 numerous, small. Named from cArysos, gold, and splen, the 

 spleen. 225, 



1. C. alternifolium. Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage. Leaves al- 

 ternate. Roots fibrous : stem four or five inches high, angular, de- 

 cumbent : leaves kidney-shaped, broadly crenate ; radical ones on long 

 stalks, those of the stem on short stalks : flowers in small umbels, 

 greenish-yellow, four-cleft and with eight stamens, excepting the upper- 

 most. Perennial: flowers in May: grows on the borders of rivulets in 

 shady places: not common. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 54. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. 

 p. 260. 636. 



2. C. oppositifolium. Opposite- leaved Golden-saxifrage. Leaves oppo- 

 site. About the same size as the last, of a paler green, with smaller 



leaves. Perennial : flowers in May : grows in rivulets in shady places : 

 common. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 490. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 260. 637. 



6. SAXI'FRAGA. SAXIFRAGE. 



Calyx inferior, half-inferior, or nearly superior, of one leaf, 

 divided into five permanent segments. Petals five, attached to 

 the calyx, narrow at the base, spreading. Filaments awl-shaped, 

 spreading; anthers roundish, two-lobed. Germen superior, or 

 more or less inferior, roundish, terminating in two short, spread- 

 ing styles. Stigmas obtuse. Capsule nearly egg-shaped, two- 

 beaked, two-celled. Seeds minute, numerous, roundish. Named 

 from saxum, a stone, andfrango, to break. 226. 



* Leaves all radical, undivided. 

 1. S. Geum. Kidney-leaved Saxifrage. Leaves roundish-kidney- 



