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quently grows by road-fides, even at the foot 

 of them, as at the pafs of KilUcranky^ near 

 ^lair, &c. -n. VII. VIII. 

 The root throws out feveral trailing furculi : the 

 llalks are fix or eight inches high, reclining at 

 the bafe : the leaves are of a narrow elliptical 

 form, acute, fefTile, alternate, and generally a 

 little ciliated on the edges, though fometimes 

 fmooth : the flowers grow at the top of the ftalk, 

 one or two upon a peduncle, in number from 

 four to ten, or a dozen : the petals are elliptical,, 

 yellow, generally dotted with faffron-color'd 

 fpots, and grow expanded and plane : the feo-- 

 ments of the calyx are of the fame length as the 

 petals, and grow open and flat. 

 That this is the fame plant which Linmeus calls 

 Saxifraga aizoides, growing in Sweden and Lap- 

 land, there can be no doubt, from the defcrip- 

 tions and figures of authors : we chufe therefore, 

 with Jacquin and Haller, to confider them both 

 as ° one fpecies, and adopt the trivial nam.e of 

 autumnalis as well fuited to both. The plant 

 growing upon Knotsford moor, in Chejhire, men- 

 tioned by Ray and Hudfon, and fuppofed by the 

 latter to be the S. dutumnalis^ of Lin}2£us, we 

 have feen, and found to be the S. hirculus of 

 that author, figur'd in Oed. Dan. t. 200. is! tlalL 

 Stirp. Helvet. vol. I. p. 140. t. ii. 



*** Foliis hhatis, caule ereclo. 



SAXIFRAGA foliis caulinis reniformibus lobatis, 



cauk 



