278 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 



7c. t. 2. Hook. Scot. 131; excluding thevariehj. Fl. Dan. t. 348. 

 Lapeyr. Pyren. <. 32. 



S. n. 989. Hall. Hist. V. 1.423; syn. confused. 



S. muscosa, trifido folio. Tourn. Inst. 252. Raii Syn. 354. 



Sedum Alpinum, trifido folio. Bauh. Pin. 28i. Moris, v. 3. 479. 

 sect.]2. t.9.f.26. 



Sanicula aizoides tiidactilites alpina minor, flore albo inajore. 

 Pluh. Almag. 33 1 . Phyt. t. 57. f. 7. 



/3. Saxifraga condensata. Don Tr. of L. Soc. v. 13. 448. " Gmet. 

 Baden. V. 2.226. t 3." 



On lofty rocky mountains in Wales, Scotland, and the North of 

 England, as well as on limestone rocks, walls and roofs, in less 

 elevated situations, abundantly. 



Perennial. May, June. 



This species, frequently cultivated in gardens, on rock-work, &c. 

 forms broad, elastic, dense tufts, of a light and pleasant green. 

 From the crown of each root i)roceed numerous long, entangled, 

 procumbent, leafy shoots, as well as an upright, generally soli- 

 tary, slightly leafy stem, 4 or 5 inches high, terminating in a 

 corymbose panicle of from 3 to 5 white^^ower.s-, whose stalks arc a 

 little viscid and glandular, as well as the scattered awl-shaped 

 hracteas. The radical and lower stem-leaves are linear, chan- 

 nelled, and fringed at the base ; terminating in 3, rarely 5, lan- 

 ceolate, spreading, smooth, bristle-pointed lobes ; those on tlie 

 trailing shoots are almost universally undivided, ta])er-pointcd, 

 •with fl more conspicuous bristle, and are often accom]ianied 

 by a pale, axillary, oblong bud, as described by Haller, and by 

 John Bauhin, Hist. r. 3. 696. chap. 9. I have a specimen of this 

 from the collection of C. Bauhin. The calyx is half-inferior, 

 with broad, acute, pointed, three-ribbed segments. Pet. broadly 

 obovate, flat, tri])le-ril)bed, sometimes tinged with red before 

 expansion ; the middle rib occasionally branched near the tip. 

 Stigmas spatulate, scarcely at all downy. 



Mr. Griffith has favoured me with an alpine ^V'elsh specimen, an- 

 swering to Mr. Don's account of his condensata, but I cannot 

 consider it as a distinct species. Whether it be Gmelin's plant, 

 I have had no opportunity of ascertaining. 

 Tab. 454 of Engl. Bot. was indeed drawn from a very insufficient 

 specimen of -S'. hypnoides, and gives no just idea of the foliage. 



With regard to Haller's n. 989 there is great uncertainty. He has 

 undoubtedly confounded the synonyms of various species under 

 that number, and what the Swiss botanists take for .S'. hypnoides, 

 is either the Linneean ajugifolia, a plant in general not well 

 known, I believe, to our 13ritish botanists and cultivators, or its 

 near relation the exarata, Don n. 92. I should suspect that no 

 real hypnoides had ever been gathered in Switzerland, but for 

 Bauhin's specimen above mentioned ; having never seen it in 

 Hny. native Swiss herbarium. 



