70 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



arc similar in size, colour, and arrangement and, like S Geum, it 

 varies much in the degree of hairiness on the leaves, petioles, and 



stems. 



Hairy London-Pnae. 



French, Saxifrage Velue. 



SPECIES VI.— SAXIFEAGA UMBROSA. Linn. 

 Plates DXLVI. DXLVII. 

 Rootstock branched. Leaves in compact or lax radical rosettes, 

 spathulate ; lamina obovate, oval-oblong or roundish, rather sud- 

 denly attenuated at the base, crenate or crenate-serrate or dentate- 

 serrate ; petioles short or rather short, broad. Scape leafless. 

 Flowers in lax cymes, combined into an elongate panicle with 

 numerous branches. Bracts strap-shaped or elliptical, much 

 shorter than the pedicels. Sepals free from each other and from 

 the ovary, oblong, reflexed. Petals twice as long as the sepals or 

 more, oblanceolate-elliptical. Filaments slightly dilated upwards. 

 Capsule wholly superior. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Plate DXLVI. 



Leaves spreading, in compact rosettes ; lamina oblong-obovate, 

 crenate. Petioles short. 



Var. 3, punctata. Haw. 



Leaves ascending, in rather lax rosettes ; lamina roundish, 

 obovate-roundish, crenate-serrate. Petioles longer than in var. a. 



Var. y, serratifolia. 

 Plate DXLVII. 

 Leaves ascending, in lax rosettes ; lamina obovate or oval- 

 obovate, sharply dentate-serrate. Petioles longer than m var. a. 



On rocks in mountains. Var. a apparently wild, near Settle, 

 Yorkshire, and naturalized in woods in many places both in Scot- 

 land and England. Some of the forms from Kerry approach var. 

 a but have the petioles longer and the crenatures sharper, and 

 therefore mav be more properly referred to vars. (3 and y. Var. |3 

 common in Connemara, Galway, and not unfrequent near Kil- 

 larney and other places in the south-west of Ireland. Var. y in the 

 ame localities as var. (3. 



England ? [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



