No. 421. 
SAXIFRAGA CÆSIA. 
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Class. Order, 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
This pretty little plant is from the Alps 
of Switzerland and Austria. It has been 
long known, as there is a figure of it in 
Gerarde’s Herbal, taken from Clusius, 
which considering the rude execution, gives 
an excellent idea of the plant. He seems to 
have never seen it himself, although he pre- 
tends to know its virtue, as he calls it, which 
he says without doubt is cold, but that it is 
not ent known or used in physic. 
‘informs us that it 
grows on the he and rocky Alps, 
consequently it must be difficult to cultivate 
in our dense atmosphere. We have found 
it do pretty well wedged between two pieces 
of broken pot, and planted in that manner 
in a small pot filled with soil composed of 
loam and decayed morter. It is never 
injured by cold: the flowers do not exceed 
two or three inches in height, and the whole 
plant is extremely minute. 
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