126 SAXIFRAGACE^l. 



English Lakes ; its flowers grow singly on the stems, and the 

 closely-packed leaves are placed opposite to one another. 



The Yellow Marsh Saxifrage (S. hirculus), is found on Knuts- 

 ford Moor, in Cheshire, not many miles from my favourite 

 Rudd Heath. The erect stem is clothed with narrow, alternate 

 leaves. It reaches the height of eight inches, and the large 

 yellow blossom is beautifully speckled with red. 



The London Pride Saxifrage (S. umbrosa), is an Irish plant, 

 but I gathered it, apparently wild, in the Aske woods, near 

 Richmond. It is too common an ornament in gardens to need 

 any description. A species with large white flowers spotted 

 with yellow, very slight in its form, called the Starry Saxifrage, 

 was given to me by Mr. "Ward. It frequents the neighbour- 

 hood of alpine rills. 



The Yellow Mountain Saxifrage (S. aizoides), is a gay little 

 plant ; its blossoms spotted with red. It greatly resembles the 

 Golden Moss, but is darker in hue, more of an orange colour, 

 and also larger. I found it abundantly in Switzerland and in 

 the Scotch Highlands, and my specimen is from thence. 



There are a Kidney-leaved and a Hairy species, both resem- 

 bling the London Pride ; and, like it, they are inhabitants of 

 Ireland. 



The Drooping, Alpine, and Tufted Saxifrages are white 

 species peculiar to mountain country ; the Moss-like and Dwarf 

 ones are yellow, and inhabit similar localities. 



The Long-stalked, Broad-petalled, and Web-footed Saxifrages, 

 have brilliant white blossoms, and are found in Scotland and 

 Wales. We have no specimens of any of these. 



I have both the Golden Saxifrages ; they have no corolla, 

 but the calyx and stamens are of a brilliant gold colour. 

 The two species are distinguished from one another by the 

 position of their leaves, those in the one being alternate, 

 and in the other opposite. Both bear a flat cyme or corymb 

 of yellow flowers, and their leaves are kidney-shaped and 

 notched. 



