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pedicels. Calyx-segments oval, free nearly to the base, where alone 

 the calyx adheres to the ovary. Petals (very rarely produced 

 in Britain) oblong-oblanceolate, 3 times as long as the sepals. 

 Capsule nearly wholly superior, never observed in Britain. Plant 

 sparingly glandular-pubescent. 



On Alpine rocks. Very rare. In a fissure on the south side of 

 Ben-Lawers, very near the summit. 



Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Stems in the Perthshire specimens 2 to 4 inches high, but in 

 the Scandinavian ones frequently 6 to 9 inches ; bulbs at its base 

 resembling those of S. rivularis, those in the axils of the leaves 

 more globular. Petioles of the root-leaves | to 1 inch long; 

 lamina ^ to f inch across ; stem - leaves considerably smaller. 

 Mowers -| inch across, white, but the nearest approach to flowering 

 which I have seen is the production of an empty calyx. The 

 capsule I have never seen. Plant dull-green tinged with olive, 

 the stem and bulbs in the leaf-axils generally dull-red ; stem, 

 peduncles, and margins of the leaves sparingly clothed with long, 

 flexuous, jointed glandular hairs. 



Drooping Alpine Saxifrage. 



SPECIES XIII.— SAXI FRAG A GRANULATA. Linn. 

 Plate DLV. 



Perennial. Barren shoots represented by globular scaly bulbs 

 at the crown of the rootstock. Stem erect, straight, simple or 

 branched. Lower leaves stalked, roundish-reniform, crenate with 

 a few large obtuse crenatures, or slightly palmately 5- or 7-lobed, 

 with the lobes short, oblong or roundish, obtuse ; petioles slender, 

 about twice as long as the lamina ; stem-leaves few, similar to 

 the root-leaves, but with shorter stalks and lanceolate, more acute 

 lobes, the upper ones rhomboidal, 3-lobed, the uppermost entire, 

 all without bulbs in the axils. Mowers few, in terminal corym- 

 bose cymes, which, combined, make the inflorescence a corymbose- 

 topped panicle in luxuriant examples. Calyx - segments ovate, 

 as long as the tube, which adheres to the ovary. Petals oblong- 

 obovate, 3 times as long as the calyx-segments. Capsule half 

 superior, with 2 rather short sub-erect beaks. Plant denselv 

 glandular-pubescent. 



In meadows and dry banks. Bather common, and generally 

 distributed in Em-land, but becoming scarce in Scotland North of 



