SAXIFRAGACEiE. SI 



SPECIES XVI.— SAXIFR AG A HYPNOIDES. Lhm. 

 Plates DLVIII. to DLXII. 



Barren shoots generally elongated and decumbent or pro- 

 cumbent, terminating in tufts or rosettes, and with the rosettes at 

 the base of the flowering shoots forming dense cushions. Leaves 

 of the rosettes wedge-shaped, attenuated into winged petioles; 

 lamina dilated, 3- to 7-cleft, with oblong acuminate or lanceolate 

 lobes, acute at the apex; those of the barren shoots 3-cleft or 

 entire ; those on the flowering-stem few, the lowest 3- or 5-cleft, 

 the uppermost and the bracts entire. Flowering-stems terminating 

 in a few-flowered corymbose cyme. Calyx - segments ovate or 

 triangular, acute or rather acute, rather longer than the calyx- 

 tube; calyx-tube in fruit hemispherical, about as broad as long. 

 Petals obovate, 2 to 3 times as long as the calyx-segments. Capsule 

 half superior. Stem, pedicel, and sepals more or less thickly clothed 

 with short gland-tipped hairs; barren shoots and leaves with 

 elongated jointed glandular hairs. 



Sub-Species I.— Saxifraga hirta. Don. 

 Plates DLVIII. to DLX. 



Barren shoots generally short when the plant is in flower, with 

 the leaves 3-cleft, lobes strapshaped, suddenly acuminate beyond 

 the middle, and acute at the apex. Calyx-segments ovate-trian- 

 gular or lanceolate - triangular, subacute. Stem, pedicels, and 

 calyces clothed with gland-tipped hairs. 



Var. a, genuina. 



Plate DLVIII. 

 S. hirta, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 134. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2291. 



Petals obovate, flat. Sepals ovate-triangular. Glandular hairs 

 numerous. 



Var. 0, affinis. 

 Plate DLIX. 

 S. affinis, Don. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 134, and E. B. S. No. 2903. 



Petals oblong, inflexed at the sides. Sepals " subulate " (Bab.). 

 Glandular hairs few. 



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