SAXIFRAGES. [Saxifraga. 



ribbed.'* (Sm.JBr. Fl 1. p. 195. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 273. E. 

 Bot. t. 794. 



Lofty mountains. On a rock near the summit of Brandon Moun- 

 tain, at the Pilgrim's Well, along with S. incurvifolia, in 1805, and 

 having cultivated them ever since, I can now see no difference betw r een 

 them, unless the more incurved leaves of the latter should constitute 

 it a variety, the notching in the petals not being constant. The spe- 

 cimens which I found on the summit of Brandon had only one flower 

 on each stem, but plants brought from thence and planted in a garden 

 produced, in the following year, from five to nine flowers. The plant 

 forms small dense tufts. Radicle leaves numerous, crowded above, 

 fringed with soft glutinous hairs. A few of the lower ones are linear, 

 those above divided into three or five rather broad obtuse segments, 

 sometimes a little incurved. The S. palmata of E. Bot. now consi- 

 dered only a variety of this, I have not found in Ireland ; the plant I 

 found on Gal ty more being S. hirta of E. Bot. which has sometimes 

 been mistaken for it. Fl. May, June. If. . 



12. S. hirta, Smith. Hairy Alpine Saxifrage. Radical leaves 

 rather crowded, 5 or 3-cleft, pointed, veiny, fringed ; flowers 

 few, corymbose ; germen half inferior ; calyx acute ; petals 

 obovate, triple-nerved. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 275. E. Bot. t. 2291. 



On moist rocks near the summit of Gal ty more, County of Tip- 

 perary, and on Curan Tuhol, County of Kerry. Fl. May, June. !. 

 Forming large tufts, and, in both the wild and cultivated state, always 

 of a more lax mode of growth than any of the vars. of S. ccespitosa. 

 The shoots and flowerstalks are weak and straggling, the latter gene- 

 rally producing only three flowers, the centre or first flower much 

 lower than the others, which have the footstalks much lengthened. The 

 leaves, which have broad footstalks, are deeply divided or fringed ; the 

 lobes three or five-cleft, the two outer ones, in the latter case, less se- 

 parated, all elliptical, acute, entire, fringed like the shoots with long 

 white hairs. The fig. in E. Bot. is an excellent representation of the 

 plant. 



13. S. affinis, Don. Involute Alpine Saxifrage. Radical 

 leaves 5-cleft; those of the trailing shoots mostly 3-cleft; lobes 

 linear, pointed, recurved ; petals oblong, iriflexed at the edges. 

 Don Tr. L. Soc. v. 13. p. 418. E. Fl. v. ii. p. 275. S. Lcevis, 

 Mackays Cat.Donn. Cant. ed. 5. 107. 



Found on Brandon, very sparingly on the same rock with S. caspitosa. 

 FL May, June. % . Herb bright green, densely tufted before flowering, 

 afterwards throwing out many procumbent, lax, reddish, distantly leafy 

 shoots, several inches long ; the whole besprinkled with soft, slender, 

 glutinous hairs. Leaves much elongated and tapering at the base, 

 fringed, and otherwise somew r hat hairy, divided about one-third their 

 length into three lobes, the lateral lobes of the radical leaves especially 

 cloven ; all of" them linear, or slightly lanceolate, acute, partly bristle- 

 pointed. In habit resembling S. hirta, and like it, producing only three 

 or four flowers on each stalk. 



14. S. hypnoides, Linn. Mossy Saxifrage. Radical leaves 3 

 or 5-cleft, \hose of the procumbent shoots undivided, or 3- 

 cleft, all bristle pointed, and more or less fringed ; segments of 



