CL. X.] DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 195 



4. P. seciinda. Serrate Winter-green. Leaves egg-shaped, acute, 



serrate; flowers drooping, all inclining one way. Stalk about 



four inches long, with a dense cluster of white, drooping flowers. 

 Perennial : flowers in July and August : grows in fir- woods in 

 Scotland : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. viii. pi. 517. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. 

 p. 250. 634. 



5. P. uniflora. Single-flowered Winter-green. Stalk single- 

 flowered ; leaves egg-shaped, acute, serrate. Hoot creeping : 



stems reclining, an inch or two long, simple : leaves egg-shaped, 

 acute, sharply serrate : stalk about three inches long, erect, bearing 

 a single, large, white fragrant flower. Perennial : flowers in July : 

 grows in woods in Scotland : rare. Fir-wood near Brodie House ; 

 Knock of Alves, near Elgin ; Coul, in Ross-shire. Eng. Bot. vol. iii. 

 pi. 146. Eng. FL vol. ii. p. 258. 635. 



DIGYNIA. 



5. CHKYSOSPLE'NIUM. GOLDEN-SAXIFRAGE. 

 Calyx superior, of one leaf, deeply divided into four or five 

 unequal, spreading, permanent, coloured segments. Corolla 

 none. Nectary a glandular ring within the insertion of the 

 stamens. Filaments eight or ten, awl-shaped, erect, very short ; 

 anthers roundish, two-lobed. Germen inferior, roundish, ter- 

 minated by two awl-shaped styles, as long as the stamens. 

 Stigmas obtuse. Capsule two-beaked, one-celled, two-valved. 

 Seeds roundish, numerous, small. Named from chrysos, gold, 

 and splen, the spleen. 225. 



1. C. alternifblium. Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage. Leaves 



alternate. Roots fibrous : stem four or five inches high, angular, 



decumbent : leaves kidney-shaped, broadly crenate ; radical ones 

 on long stalks, those of the stem on short stalks : flowers in small 

 umbels, greenish-yellow, four-cleft and with eight stamens, except- 

 ing the uppermost. Perennial: flowers in May: grows on the 

 borders of rivulets in shady places : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. i. 

 pi. 54. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 260. 636. 



2. C. oppositifolium. Opposite -leaved Golden-saxifrage. Leaves 



opposite. About the same size as the last, of a paler green, with 



smaller leaves. Perennial : flowers in May : grows in rivulets in 

 shady places : common. Eng. Bot. vol. vii. pi. 490. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. 

 p. 260. . 637. 



6. SAXI'FKAGA. SAXIFRAGE. 



Calyx inferior, half-inferior, or nearly superior, of one leaf, 

 divided into five permanent segments. Petals five, attached to 

 the calyx, narrow at the base, spreading. Filaments awl- 

 shaped, spreading ; anthers roundish, two-lobed. Germen su- 

 perior, or more or less inferior, roundish, terminating in two 

 short, spreading styles. Stigmas obtuse. Capsule nearly egg- 

 shaped, two-beaked, two-celled. Seeds minute, numerous, 

 roundish. Named from saxum, a stone, and frango, to break. 



226. 



* Leaves all radical, undivided. 

 1. S. Geum. Kidney-leaved Saxifrage. Leaves roundish-kidney- 



