No, 454. 
SILENE SAXIFRAGA, 
Class, Order. 
DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
A native of the Alps; the stems are very 
numerous; each four or five inches in 
length; having about six pairs of opposite 
leaves, and terminating in a flower placed 
on a long capillary stalk: the inside is 
white, and outside re 
There are two varieties of this plant ; the 
one flowering a month later than the other, 
without any other ue distinction: the 
present, (which is earliest) was in per- 
fection in the aaa a June. 
It is very hardy, and lives well on an ar- 
tificial rock, or in a small pot in loamy soil. 
