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The flowers are white, large, and showy, and expand themselves 

 early in the spring. The stem, which bears many flowers, is 

 rather hairy, and with deeply-cleft sessile leaves at intervals 

 along it. The most curious part of the plant is the root, which 

 consists of a number of round bulbs or grains, about the size 

 of peas, of a whitish brown color, from which the plant has its 

 Latin trivial name, granulata, or grained. 



RUE -LEAVED SAXIFRAGE. Saxifraga tridactylites. 



Plate 5, fig. 13. 

 Root fibrous. Leaves three or five cleft. 



A beautiful, little, delicate plant, growing three or four inches 

 high, blossoming in April, and found frequently on walls and 

 dry places. Of a fine green color, tinged particularly on the 

 tips of the calyces, and the leaves and stem of a brilliant 

 crimson. The flowers are very small and white. 



O. S. Kidney-Leaved Saxifrage, Hairy Oval-Leaved Saxifrage, Lon- 

 don Pride Saxifrage, all three confined to Ireland ; Starry Saxifrage. 

 Purple Mountain Saxifrage, Yellow Marsh Saxifrage, Yellow Mountain 

 Saxifrage, Alpine Brook Saxifrage, Mossy Saxifrage, (of which there are 

 several varieties) ; Tufted Alpine Saxifrage, Mossy Alpine Saxifrage, and 

 Pedatifid- Leaved Saxifrage, Most of the above are Alpine plants, often 

 cultivated in pots, in the borders, or on rock-work, but found only in a 

 wild state among the mountains of Wales and Scotland. 



CATCHFLY. SILENE. 



BLADDER CATCHFLY. Silene inflata. 



Plate 5, fig. 14. 



Pastures and road-sides are scattered over with plants of 

 the Bladder Campion, though seldom abundantly. It is a 

 much-spreading branched plant, with very smooth, whitish- 

 green, opposite, ovate or lanceolate leaves. The various 

 stems bear loose bunches of large, five-petaled flowers, in- 

 closed in a beautifully-veined and swelled-out calyx. It flowers 

 in July, and the seeds, which are very numerous, are ripe a 

 month afterwards. The flowers are white. 



O.S. Mossy Catchfly, which covers in large patches the crags and 

 mountain steeps of Wales and Scotland, bearing abundant and most 

 beautiful pink flowers ; Sea Catchfly, Spanish Catchfly, English Catchfly, 

 Variegated Catchfly, Nottingham Catchfly, Italian Catchfly, Striated Corn 

 Catchfly, Night Flowering Catchfly, and Common or Lobel's Catchfly. 



