ij-jj ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Flowers few, in 1- to 3-flowered cymes terminating the stem and 

 branches, which are so disposed as to give a corymbose appearance 

 to the inflorescence. Sepals combined at the base for one-fourth 

 of their length, and adhering for that distance to the ovary, 

 ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, spreading. Petals once and 

 a half to twice as long as the sepals, elliptical-oblanceolate, bright 

 yellow dotted with red towards the base, without callosities. Capsule 

 two-thirds superior. 



In wet places on rocks, and by the sides of rills. Plentiful in 

 mountainous districts, and often descending along the course of 

 streams into the low country. I have myself found it on low 

 around by the side of the turnpike-road near Durris, Kincardine- 

 shire, and at Ascog, Isle of Bute; and Dr. P. W. Maclagan dis- 

 covered it on rocks on the Ayrshire coast ; in all of which places 

 it has not been brought down from high ground by streams. 

 England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 

 Flowering-stems 2 to 6 inches long, generally decumbent at the 

 base. Leaves spreading, crowded on the barren shoots and at the 

 base of the flowering-stems, \ to 1 inch long, generally with a few 

 cilige: when these are present, it is the S. autumiialis of Linnaeus, 

 and when absent his S. Aizoides. Flowers \ inch across, varying 

 in the intensity of the yellow colour and in the number of orange or 

 red dots. Capsule nearly as long as broad, scarcely i inch either 

 way, olive-colour. Seeds yellowish-brown rugose. Plant growing 

 in dense masses, bright-green; the stems clothed at the base with 

 persistent decayed brown leaves. 



Yellow Mountain Saxifrage. 

 French, Smrifrayefaux Aizoon. German, Traicbenblulhiger Steinbrech. 



Section V.— NEPHPOPHYLLUM. Tausch. 



Flowering-stem leafy, without leafy barren shoots at the base. 

 Leaves alternate, often reniform and palmately lohed. Hairs arti- 

 culated to the stem-leaves. Flowers usually white. Sepals erect 

 or spreading, combined at the base and adhering to the ovary, 

 more rarely nearly free from each other and from the ovary. 



SPECIES X.-SAXIFRAGA TRID ACT YLITE S. Linn. 

 Plate DLII. 



Annual or biennial, without barren shoots. Stem erect, pani- 

 culately branched. Lowest leaves indistinctly stalked, broadly 



