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valves, rarely 3 5 : the margins of the valves sometimes intro- 

 flexed so as to be more or less 2-celled ; the valves opening in- 

 ternally, sometimes from the base to the apex ; sometimes from 

 the apex to the base between the styles. Placentas occupying 

 the iritroflexed margins of the valves more or less completely. 

 Seeds many, minute, nearly horizontal. Albumen fleshy. Em- 

 bryo small : radicle short, directed towards the hilum. Cotyle- 

 dons short, ovate. Herbs. Leaves without stipules, alternate, 

 rarely opposite. Flowers racemose or panicled, rarely soli- 

 tary. 



1. CHRYSOSPLENIUM. Linn. Golden-Saxifrage. 



Calyx 4 5 parted, coloured inside. Petals none. Stamens 

 8 10, short, perigynous. Disk annular. Styles 2, spread- 

 ing. Capsule inferior of one cell, and two valves at the 

 apex. Small succulent herbs, with reniform notched leaves, 

 and green inconspicuous flowers. Name from xP vffo *> gold, 

 and ffir\i]v, the spleen, a disease, for which this plant was 

 supposed to be a cure. Decandria Digynia. 



1. C. alternifolium, Linn. Alternate-leaved Golden- Saxifrage. 

 Leaves alternate, lower ones subreniform upon very long foot- 

 stalks. Br. Fl.l.p.190. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 260. E.Bot.t.54. 



Boggy places, among rocks and springs. Near Belfast ; Mr. Tern- 

 pleton. Fl. March, April. 1. Four to five inches high, branched 

 near the summit. Leaves petiolate, crenate. Flowers in small umbels, 

 deep yellow, mostly with eight stamens. 



2. C. oppositifolium, Linn, Common Golden- Saxifrage. 

 Leaves opposite, cordato-rotundate. Br. FL J. p. 190. E. 

 Fl. v. ii.p. 260. E. Bot. t. 490. 



Sides of rivulets, in shady places, common. Fl. May July. If . 

 Generally more branched at the base than the last, of a paler colour 

 in all its parts. Stamens usually eight. 



2. ADOXA. Linn. Moschatell. 



Calyx half inferior, 3-cleft. Corolla superior, 4 5 cleft. An- 

 thers terminal, 1-celled. Berry 4 5-celled. The side 

 flowers have the corolla 5-cleft, the terminal one 4-cleft. 

 Name a, without, and Soga, glory ; from the humble growth and 

 insignificant aspect of this little flower. 



Octandria. Tetragynia. 



1. A. moschatellina, Linn. Tuberous Moschatell. Br. Fl. 1. 

 p. 184. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 242. E. Bot. t. 463. 



Woods, hedge banks, and shady places, rare in Ireland ; Cavehill 

 and Glen of Jennymount, near Belfast ; Doctor Drummond and Mr. 

 F. Whitla. Fl. April, May. %. Stem about a span high. Leaves 

 two to three, radical, on very long footstalks, triternate, lobed and cut. 

 two cauline ones small and simply ternate. Peduncle single, terminal, 



