DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Saxifiaga. 2G9 



Sedum alpinum, floiibus luteis maculosis. Bauh. Pin. 284. 



S. alpinum primum. Clus. Pan. 484. t. 485. Ger. Em. 515. 



/.516. 

 S. minus sextum. Clus. Hist. v. 2.59. f. 60. 

 S. parvum montanum luteum. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 693./. 



On the borders of mountain rills^ in a black bogg-y soil. 



On Ingleborough hill. Yorkshire, and on most of the Westmore- 

 land and Scottish mountains. 



Perennial. June — September. 



Stems tufted, decumbent at the base, with many short, leafy, trail- 

 ing shoots ; the flowering part ascending, 3 or 4 inches high, 

 leafy, smooth or haiiy, unbranched ; panicled at the summit. 

 Leaves most crowded towards the root ; the upper ones most 

 scattered ; all sessile, linear-oblong, obtuse, variously fringed 

 with sharp, capillary teeth, which are scarcely ever entirely 

 wanting. Panicle leafy, generally simple, of 3 or 4 Jlowers ; 

 sometimes branched and many-flowered ; the stalks glutinous 

 and densely hairy. Cal. of 5 broad leaves, encompassing the 

 middle of the germen, and at all times widely spreading. Pet. 

 a little longer than the calyx, obovate, or tongue-shaped, triple- 

 ribbed, bright yellow, partly orange-coloured, besprinkled with 

 scarlet dots. Floral receptacle broad, depressed, surrounding 

 the bases of the awl-shaped, spreading styles. Stigmas obtuse, 

 concave, downy. Caps, rather more than half superior when 

 ripe, crowned with the slightly elongated styles. 



Dwarf alpine specimens, whose leaves are less evidently fringed, 

 have been taken for -S. autumnalis ; and are undoubtedly what 

 many authors have described under that name, though a very 

 little investigation is sufficient to prove them the aizoides. 

 What Linnaeus intended by his autumnalis is quite another 

 question. It appears that, at onetime, he gave this name to the 

 Hirculus, figured in Breynius, t. 48, which plate he has marked 

 autuinnalis. At other times he had in view the fringed state of 

 aizoides, considering the more naked-leaved specimens as tlie 

 real aizoides, though his authentic ones thus named are very 

 certainly fringed. His autumnalis therefore cannot be quoted 

 as a synonym of either of these species, nor is the name at all 

 suitable to them. The whole history of this confusion was 

 given above 30 years ago in the 1st vol. of English Botany, and 

 Dr. Wahlenberg's remark confirms what is there advanced. 



**** Calyx spreading. Leaves fur tlxjlobed. Stigmas mosiljj 

 doiimi/. Flo-djcring stems erect, more or less leafy. 



[9. S. gramdata. White Meadow Saxifrage. 



Leaves kidney-shaped, lohed. Stem panicled, leafy. Root 

 granulated. Germen half-inferior. 



