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a rosette. Lindmark thinks that the plants can flower in their 

 second year. 



Ilrancliing. Lateral shoots which, from the first, put 

 forth imperfect foUage-leaves, are quickly developed into small 



Fig. 28. Saxifraga rivularis. 

 A, From Disko (.July 20, 1884). From the base of a shoot five white, rootless, slender run- 

 ners are seen to proceed (slightly mag.). B, A runner; slightly mag. (Norway); the leaves 

 a and 6 are fairly thick and fleshy; c and d have small entire laminae; e a tripartite 

 lamina. C, A slender, erect runner (West Greenland; Aug. 16, 1884); in the axils of the 

 three leaves — which have heen cut off — new runners have arisen (slightly reduced). D, A 

 leaf with evident stipules. E, Seedling from Iceland; about -/i (Oste.nfeld; .June 8, 1895). 

 F, A cotyledon of it ("/i). G, A runner which terminates in a foliage-leaf and a bulbil. 

 (Drawn by E. W., 1908.) 



foliage-bearing rosette-shoots at the base of a flowering shoot. 

 The greater number of the foliage-leaves which during the 

 flowering-period, are seen at the base of the flowering-shoot 

 often belong to lateral shoots. In unfavourable localities the 

 lateral shoots become close-set, and the whole habit of the 



