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** Cat. at length reflexed inferior, st. leafy, I. undivided. 



6. & Hir'culus (L.) ; st. erect, barren shoots prostrate filiform, 

 1. alternate lanceolate flat entire, root-1. narrowed into a foot- 

 stalk, sep. blunt fringed at the margin, pet. blunt with 2 hard 

 points near the base. E. B. 1009. St. 35. 8. Fl. few or soli- 

 tary, terminal. Pet. obovate, spreading, yellow dotted with 

 red. St. 4 8 in. high, downy in the upper part. Wet moors, 

 rare. P. VIII. E.S.I. 



*** Cal. erect or spreading half inferior, st. leafy, I. simple 

 toothed or with rigid jointless cilia, also a transparent 

 gland at the tip. 



7. & aizoi'des (L.) ; st. decumbent below, 1. alternate linear- 

 oblong nmcronate ciliate entire flat above convex beneath, sep. 

 blunt. E. B. 39. St. 35. 9. Fl. in a leafy panicle, with glu- 

 tinous downy stalks. Pet. bright yellow often spotted with 

 scarlet. St. 3 6 in. long. L. rigidly ciliate or with several 

 strong teeth. Wet places on mountains. P. VII. IX. E. S. I. 



**** Cal. erect or spreading superior or half inferior, st. more 

 or less leafy, 1. lobed, cilia all jointed. S. hypnoides, 

 Hook. See Baker in J. of B. viii. 280, 355. 



8. S. ccespitosa (L.) ; root-l. crowded 3 5-cleft blunt veined 

 fringed, fl. 1 5, pet. rounded 3-veined, cat. half inferior, sep. 

 blunt. Barren st. very short. Fl. white. Germeu broad and 

 rounded below. Common base of the 1. not furrowed. Anth. 

 long, cordate with an open notch. Horns of caps, spreading. 

 /3. S. incurvifolia (D. Don) ; stem-1. more numerous with in- 

 curved lobes. E. B. S. 2909. Very rare. Caernarvonshire. 

 Westmoreland. Aberdeenshire. Kerry. P. V. VI. E. S. I. 



9. S. decip'iens (Ehrh.) l ; /. crowded 3 4-cleft, lobes lanceo- 

 late pointed fringed, fl. few (usually 3) loosely panicled, pet- 

 obovate 3-veined, cal. half inferior, sep. bluntish. S. hirta Sm. 

 E. B. 2291 (not Haw.). S. Sternbergii (Willd.) ed. viii. L. on 

 the barren shoots as well as the radical 1. 3-cleft, the lateral 

 lobes often divided halfway down, lobes diverging. Barren 

 shoots 3 6 or 8 in. long, weak. Fl.-st. hairy glandular, bear- 

 ing 2 or 8 deeply 3-lobed 1. and a few simple linear bracts ; 



1 Prof. Engler (Monogr. Saxif.) includes as vars. under this name 

 S. Sternberffii, Willd., S. quinquefida, Haw. (=S. sponhemica, Gmel.), 

 and S. grcenlandica, L., and has referred some British Specimens to the 

 last named. H. & J. G. 



