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XXXVII. SAXirRAGACE^. 



[ Saxifraga. 



ft Filaments subulate. 



[3. S. Andrewsii Harv. {Andrews' S.) ; leaves spreadino- sna 

 thulate obtuse glabrous thickish narrowed into the slfahti 



oin, 



ciliated petiole crenate with a thin membranaceous ma%in 

 scape pamcled. Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. p. 570. t. 19. 



Moist clifFs, on a mountain at the extreme termination of Glen C 

 ragh, Kerry. W, Andreivs, Esq. 2/. 6. — Of this we have abrido-^fd 

 Dr. Harvey's specific character, having only seen one or two o-arden 

 specimens: indeed, from what we have learned, this supposed Species 

 IS a garden hybrid between .S". umbrosa and S. Ugulata; and consequentlv 

 there must be a mistake in assigning to it the above station.] 



4. S. stelldris 



( 



S.) ; leaves oblong-cuneiform 



scarcely stalked, panicle subcorymbose of few flowers, capsule 



—-- '— -' ' E.B.t. 167. 



^ superior.- 

 quite entire. 



a. leaves angulato-serrate. 



/3. leaves 



Sides of rivulets and wet rocks, in the mountainous parts of the 

 north of England, Scotland, and Ireland. — ^. rocks on Ben Nevis. 



** Flowering stem erect Leaves not lobed. Flowers capitate. Cat. 



spreading. Caps, ^-inferior. 



5. S. nivalis L, (alpine clustered S.) ; leaves obovate sub- 

 petiolate acutely crenate subcoriaceous, scape terminated by a 

 dense cluster of flowers. E. B. t. 440. 



Mountains of Wales, and frequent in the rocky clefts of the High- 

 land mountains of Scotland. 2^. 7, 8. — Leaves subcoriaceous, gla- 

 brous above. >S'capeglandulous-pubescent, sometimes a little branched. 



*** Stems all procumheiit and leafy. Leaves undivided. 



6. S. oppositifoUa L. (purple Mountain S.) ; leaves ovate 

 opposite imbricated ciliated, flowers solitary terminal. E.B. t. 9. 



Moist alpine rocks. Ingleborough. Snowdon and other Welsh 

 mountains. Frequent on the Highland mountains of Scotland. Ij.. 

 4 5. — Growsinstrag^irling tufts, with a habit quite different from 

 that of any other British Saxifrage. Flowers large in proportion to 

 the size of the plant, purple, very beautiful. The leaves are retuse, 

 ciliated, and have a pore at the extremity. Capsule half-inferior. 



**** 



Flowering-stem leafy, erect or spreading. Leaves all entire. 



Hirculus L. (yellow Marsh 



ternate lanceolate, those from the root attenuated into a petiole, 

 caljx inferior at length reflexed obtuse downy at the margin 

 as well as the upper part of the stem. E. B. t. 1009. 



Wet moors, very rare. Knutsford, Cheshire ; Cotherstone-fell, 

 Yorkshire. Langton, Berwickshire; Walston, Lanarkshire. Queen's 

 County, Ireland. 2^. 8. _i^/au;ers yellow, large, solitary. Fdah 



almost elupticah , o ^ . ^ 



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