94 DECANDRJA DIGYNIA. 



Root creeping. Leaves roundish, smooth, the margins set 

 round with callous points at the termination of 'the veins, 

 on long triangular stalks, which are slightly bordered. 

 Flower stalk a foot high, smooth, triangular, twisted, 

 bearing 2 or 3 brown membranous scales. Flowers white, 

 drooping, very beautiful, on short recurved stalks, each 

 with a membranous bractea, sometimes shorter, and some- 

 times as long as itself. Stamens all turned upwards, and 

 crowded together, with tubular anthers, at first white, but 

 soon becoming of an uniform orange-yellow. Style twice 

 as long as the stamens, curved like letter/, pink, tipped 

 with darker red. 



2. P. media, stamens regularly inflexed ; style twice as long, 

 deflexed ; cluster of many pendulous flowers ; calyx shorter than 

 the stamens. Intermediate Winter-green. 



Hal. Deans. Ancroft Dean, Mr J. Mariners. Haiden- 

 Dean ; Longridge Dean, sparingly. July, Aug. 11 



Ilather less than the preceding, from which the student will 

 readily distinguish it by attention to the specific charac- 

 ters. 



II. DIGYNIA. 



130. CHRYSOSPLENIUM. 



1. C. oppositifolium, stem angular, succulent ; leaves opposite, 

 roundish-heart-shaped ; flowers small, yellow, corymbose, termi- 

 nal. Common Golden-saxifrage. 



Hal. Watery shady places frequent. Sea-banks beyond 

 the Sandy Beds, Thomp. Ord Mill, &c. May. 7/ 



131. SAXIFRAGA. 



1. S. stellaris, leaves elliptic-wedge-shaped, coarsely serrated, 

 tapering and entire at the base; panicle corymbose, of few 

 flowers, white with 2 yellow spots at the base of each petal ; ca- 

 lyx reflexed, inferior. Starry Saxifrage. 



Hab. In bogs, and by the sides of rivulets on and about 

 Cheviot, plentiful. June, July. I/. 



