294 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



simple stem flowering at the summit, and 

 bulbs in the bosoms of the leaves. {S. 

 cerniia.) This has much resemblance to 

 the common Saxifrage, [S. granulata,) 

 but bears onl v^ one flower at the top of the 

 stem, which is pendulous before it opens. 

 The petals and stamens are white. In the 

 bosom of each leaf are about ten naked 

 anther-like little heads (or buds), which 

 grow out into embryos of future plants. It 

 inhabits watery places. 



32. A very small Jiinctis, with a spatha 

 of two leaves, enclosing two seeds ; (rather 

 capsules, but Linnaeus wrote seeds, because 

 it appears by the manuscript that he took 

 the plant at first for a Carex.) This is one of 

 the smallest of grasses, bearing a solitary 

 spike, one floret of which has an upright 

 glume, (or leaf of the spotha,) the other a 

 reflexed one. The petals are whitish. Pistil 

 snow-white. Stamens six. (This can be no 

 other than Jinicus biglufnis, see Engl. Bot 

 t. 898, omitted in Linnacus's own editior^ 



