172 DECANDUIA — DIGYNIA. [C/tri/sosplenium. 



Sutlicrland. Hoy hill, Orkney, Fl. May. Tj . — A trailing shrub, with 

 ohovate, marsccscent leaves which taper down into a footstalk, and be- 

 come, in autumn, of a fine red colour. Tliere are a few hairs on the 

 leaf-stalks, and ciliated hracteas at the base of the flower-stalks. Co- 

 rollas urceolate, very pale rose-colour, almost white. Berry black. 



3. A. Uva Ursi,lj.(red Bear-herry') ; stems procumbent, leaves 

 obovate entire evergreen, racemes terminal. E. ]3ot.t. 714. 



North of England and Ireland; especially abundant in the Highlands 

 and Western Isles of Scotland, growing in dry heathy and rocky places. 

 Fl. IMay. Tj . — Stems very strong and trailing; leaves obovate, stiff", rigid, 

 glabrous, their margins revolute. Flowers in small crowded terminal 

 racemes, of a beautiful rose-colour. Berry small, red, austere, mealy; 

 but yielding excellent food for the moor-fowl. 



DECANDRIA—DIGYNIA. 



5. ScLERANTHUS. Liiin. Knawel. 



1. S. dmiuus, L. (a7inual Knaivel) ; calyx of the fruit with 

 erecto-patent rather acute segments, stems spreading, root annual. 

 E. Bat. t. 351. E. Fl. V. W.p. 282. 



Corn-fields, frequent. Fl. July. 0. — Stem many, much branched in 

 a dichotonious manner, slender, subijubescent, straggling. Leaves 

 linear-subulate, keeled, opposite and combined at the base by a mem- 

 branous fringed margin. Flowers green, incons])icuous, in axillary, 

 leafy clusters. Cal. urceolate, ribbed, with 5 ovato-lanceolate teeth, in 

 my specimens white and membranous at the edge as in the following, 

 spreading when in flower, almost erect when in fruit, as represented in 

 E. Bot. t. 351, left-hand figure. 



2. S. pere?inis, L. (^perennial Knmvel) ; calyx of the fruit with 

 obtuse closed segments edged with a broad white membrane, 

 stems procumbent, root perennial. E. Bot. t. 352. E. Fl. v. 

 \\. p. 2y3. — S. polycarpos, Liglitf. Scot. p. 1143? 



Open dry sandy fields, in Norfolk and Suflblk. Near Forfar. Fl. 

 Aug.— Oct. If. 



6. Chrysosplenium. Linn. Golden-Saxifrage. 



1. C. alternifoliutn, L. (alternate-leaved Golden- Saxifrage^ ; 

 leaves alternate, lower ones subreniform upon very long foot- 

 stalks. E. Bot. t. 54. 



Boggy places among rocks and springs. Cheshire, rare. Norfolk : 

 more frequent in Scotland. Rosslyn Woods, Bilston-burn, and St Ber- 

 nard's Well, Edinburgh : Castlemilk glen, and Beetle's-burn, vale of 

 Clyde. Near Belfast, Ireland, Fl. March, April. Tj:. — 4—5 inches 

 high, branched near the summit. Leaves petiolate, crenate. Flowers 

 in small umbels, deep yellow, mostly with 8 stamens. 



2. C. oppositifolium, L. (common Golden- Saxifrage) ; leaves 

 opposite cordato-rotundate. E. Bot. t. 490. 



Sides of rivulets in shady places, common. Abundant near the 

 source of rivulets in very alpine situations, in the Highlands. Fl. April, 

 — July. If. — Generally more branched at the base than the last, of a 

 . paler colour in all its parts. Stamens usually 8. 



