260 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Chrysosplenium. 



1. Ch. alternifolinm. Alternate-leaved Golden-saxi- 



frage. 

 Leaves alternate. 



Ch. alternifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 569. Willd.v.2.eS7. FLBr.447. 



Engl. Bot. v.\.t. 54. Hook. Scot. 128. Fl. Dan. t. 366. 

 Ch. n. 1548. Hall. Hist. v. 2.254. 



Saxifraga aurea,foliis pediculis oblongis insidentibus. RaiiSyn. 158. 

 S. aurea Dodonsei. Bauli. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 707- f. Dalech. Hist. 



1113./. 

 Sedum palustre luteum majus, foliis pediculis longis insidentibas. 



Moris. V. 3. 477. sect. 12. t. 8./. 8. 

 Long Golden Saxifrage. Pet. H. Brit. t. 6.f. 10. 



On the borders of shady rivulets, rather rare. 



On Poringland heath, Norfolk ; and in many parts of the north of 

 England^ and Lowlands of Scotland. 



Perennial. May. 



Roots fibrous, creeping. Stems angular, decumbent, branched at 

 the summit only. Leaves kidney-shaped, with broad abrupt 

 notches, rough on both sides with scattered, tubular, jointed 

 hairs ; the under side pale and polished ; radical ones on long 

 stalks J those on the stem few and distant; the rest crowded 

 about the top, under the corymbose, almost sessile, deep-yellow 

 Jlowers, of which the central, or earliest one, is mostly 5 -cleft, 

 and rather the largest, though this is denied by some botanists 

 on the continent to be ever the case. See Willdenow. 



2. Ch. opposkifolium. Opposite-leaved Golden-saxi- 



frage. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Ch. oppositifolium. Linn.Sp.Pl.569. Willd.v.2.638. Fl. Br. 44S. 



Engl.Bot.v.7.t.490. Curt.Lond.fasc.2.t.27. Hook. Scot. 128. 



FL Dan. t.365. Ehrh. Herb. 135. 

 Ch. n. 1549. HalL HisL v. 2. 254. 

 Saxifraga aurea. Dod. Pempt. 316. f, RaiiSyn. 158. Ger.Em. 



841./. Lob. Ic. 612. f. 

 S. romanorum. Dalech. Hist. 1 1 14./ 

 Sedum palustre luteum, foliis subrotundis sessilibus. Moris, v. 3. 



477. sect. 12. L8.f.7. 

 Golden Saxifrage. Pet. H. Brit. t. 6.f. 9. 



Li watery shady places. 



Perennial. Maij. 



Paler than the preceding ; the herb about the same size, but the 

 leaves are all opposite, smaller, and less abruptly notched. Fl. also 

 smaller, and lemon-coloured, all frequently 4-cleft, and octan- 

 drous ; but by no means invariably, or generally, destitute of a 

 5-cleft, terminal, or central, one. See Willdenow. 



