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pedicles, of a pale green. The flowers are in a little clufter on 

 the top of the {talk, on fhort pedicles, of a bright gold-yellow. 

 The calyx is patent, and divided into four roundifh revolute feg- 

 ments. It flowers in April and May. 



115. The lejfer oppoftte-leaved Golden Saxifrage (zj, which the 

 curious Gotfenburgh-Profeflbr affures us he never faw*, is one of 

 the moft common plants we have by fhadowy fprings and water- 

 courfes. 



n<5 Tuberous white Saxifrage (a) . About old flone- walls topped 

 with earth, and among bufhes by waters. On the banks of the 

 rivulet oppofite to JSwrn-houfe, near Simonburn. On an old hedge 

 of earth and flone at Barnvesford, by the road to Chipchacc, in 

 great abundance. The roots are fibrous and flender, with many 

 fmall whitifh-red bulbs, of the fize of a garden-pea. The bot- 

 tom-leaves are reniform, deeply crenated, as if divided into 

 lobes, an inch in diameter, on pedicles three inches long. The 

 flalk is a foot high or more, and branched, fparingly fet with 



(z) Saxifraga paluftris ANGLICA. Park. Theatr. p. 427. Raj.tl'A. p. 1032. Saxifraga 

 paluftris foliis tenuiflimis, f. Saxifraga paluftris ANGLICA. Raj. Syn. iii p. 350. Saxi- 

 fraga paluftris ANGLICA. Ger. emac. p. 567. Alfine fpergulae facie minima, feminibus nudis. 

 Tourn. Inft. 



* Speciem five varietatem, foliis conjugate, pitam apud DODON./EUM & LOEELIUM, nun- 

 quam vidi. HALLER. 1. c. 



(a) Saxifraga tertia. Mattb. p. 9; 8. Saxifraga quarta. Cam. Epit. p. 719. Saxifraga alba. 

 Dod, Pempt. p. 315, 316. Ger. 693. emac. p. 841. Raj. Hill. ii. p. 1048. Dal. Pharm. 

 p. 235. Saxifraga rotundifolia alba. C. B. Pin. p. 309. Town. Inft. p. 252. Maityn. 

 Tourn. ii. p. 236. Rupp. Flo. Jen. Boerb. Ind. A. p. 222. Raj. Syn. iii. p. 354. Dill. 

 GiiT. p. 50. Saxifiaga alba radice granulofa. /. B. iii. p. 706. Sedum bicorne album ro- 

 tundifolium eretum radice granulofa. Hift. Oxon. iii. p. 473. Saxifniga foliis reniformibus 

 lobatis, caule ramofo, radice granulofa. Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 167. Flo. Suec. n. 350. 

 Royen. lugdb, p. 453. Hall. Helv. p. 401. Hill. Nat, Hift, PI. p. 431. 



leaves, 



