No. 869. 
SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Native of the northern parts of Europe 
and Asia, growing on Alpine rocks. It is 
found on several of the mountains in Wales 
and Scotland. 
It is perhaps the most beautiful of this 
extensive genus, and is indeed one of the 
most cheering and acceptable of plants, 
being among the very earliest harbingers of 
spring. Should a few mild days occur, 
towards the end of February or beginning 
of March, it is at once transformed from a 
rusty looking mossy sod into a profuse and 
cultivated in a small pot in light loam, 
with a little old morter. 
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