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H HERBAL. 
The feed-veffl is oblong, and fplit at the ends 
and the feeds are very minute. 
It is a native of the Welch mountains, and 
flowers in May. 
Ray calls it Saxifraga mufcofa trifido folio. C, 
Bauhine, Sedum alpinum trifido folio. Others, Se- 
dum ajuge foliis. 
4: Short-leaved blue-flowered Saxifrage. 
Saxifraga caerulea foliis brevibus. 
The root “is long, flender, divided, and fur- 
nifhed with afew fibres. 
The leaves rife in a thick tuft, and are fup- 
ported on fhort ftalks, a great clufter upon each. 
They are oblong, and fomewhat broad; and 
of a pale green, pointed at the ends, and undi- 
vided at the edges. 
The ftalks which bear the flowers are fmal! and 
weak. : 
The flowers are large, beautiful, and blue. 
The feed-veffel is roundifh, but terminates in 
a forked end; and is full of very fmall, brown 
feeds. 
It is found on the hills in our northern counties, 
and on the Welch mountains; and it flowers in 
April. : 
Ray calls it Saxifraga alpina ericoides flore ceru- 
leo; but, though he adopts that name, he de- 
clares it to be ill fuited; the leaves being like 
thofe of mother of thyme, rather than of heath. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Sedum alpinum ericoides ceru- 
leum. 
5. Saxifrage with yellow {potted flowers. 
Saxifraga floribus luteis guttatis. 
The root is fmall, and compofed of flender 
fibres. a 
The ftalks that firft rife from this trail upon 
the ground, and fend out roots alfo in many 
places. 
From thefe rife the ftalks which bear the 
flowers. 
They are fimall, upright, round, flefhy, and 
four or five inches high. 
The leaves are oblong, narrow, and of a flefhy 
Dil vielSel-O.N. oT: FeO 
Great Saxifrage with a bulbiferous ftalk. 
Saxifraga major caule bulbifero. 
The root is compofed of a number of tu- 
bercles, and'many fibres rifing among them, 
The firft leaves are of a roundifh form, but 
deeply cut in feveral parts, and more flightly in- 
dented. 
They ftand upon hort, redith footftalks, which 
are flefhy and firm. ; 
The ftalk is round, fingle, undivided, and 
two feet-high. 
The leaves are placed ‘alternately, and they are 
oblong, ‘broad, thick, flefhy, and very deeply 
divided. _ : 7 
In:the*bofom'Of each leaf, where it is inferted 
to the ftalk, there ftands a little, flefhy bulb, or 
tubercle. bia 
fubftance and pale green colour: they are difpefed 
irregularly on the ftalk, and are very numerous, 
The flowers are fingular, and very beau- 
tiful: they are large, of a bright gold yellow, 
fpotted with a deeper yellow: in fome plants 
thefe {pots are very numerous; in others there 
are fewer; and in fome there are none : they alfo 
vary in degree of colour, being very pale 
and very deep in others. : 
The feed-veffel is oval, and has two horns: 
the feeds are moderately large, and redith. 
It is found in damp places, and about fprings, 
in the northern mountains of England; and 
flowers in June. , 
Ray calls it Saxifraga alpina anguftifolia Slore 
luteo guttato. C.Bauhine, Sedum alpinum flore 
pallido. 
in fome, 
6. Saxifrage with ferrated leaves, 
Saxifraga foliis ovatis ferratis. 
The root is compofed of a multitude of thick, 
black fibres. 
The leaves rife in a tuft from this; and they 
are large, of an oval figure, and fharply ferrated 
at the edges: they are of a pale green, and fre- 
quently their edges turn in; fo that they appear 
hollow: they are an inch in length, and two 
thirds of an inch in breadth; they lie {pread up- 
on the ground, rifing from the head of the root 
without any footftalks. 
The ftalk rifes in the midft of thefe, and is 
round, thick, flefhy, and of a pale green. 
It has no leaves, nor is at all branched; and its 
height is four, five, or fix inches, 
The flowers ftand at its top in a thick, fhort, 
tuft: they are large and beautiful. 
The feed-veffel is oval, and {plits at th 
into.two horns ; and.is full-of minute feeds. 
It is frequent on the mountains. of Wales, and 
flowers in May. r 
Ray calls it Saxifraga foilis oblongo-rotundis dene 
tatis floribus compaétis... Merret, Sedum Jervatum 
rotundifolium. 
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Thefe plants are fuppofed to poflefs the fame 
virtues with the common JSaxifrage; but few of 
them have been tried. } 
REIGN SPECIES 
Thefe in all refpets refemble thofe tubercles 
which grow to the root, and anfwer the fame 
purpofes ; for they fall to. the ground when the 
leaves drop, and taking root furnifh new plants. 
The flowers ftand three or four together at the 
tops of the ftalks, and are large and white. 
_ The feed-veffel is oval, and flit. at the top 
into two horns; and is full of {mall brown 
feeds. 
This is frequent in Germany, and flowers in 
June. It greatly refembles our common Saxi- 
Jrage, but is larger, and has the leaves more di- 
vided. The experiment has been tried, and the 
feeds of one will not produce the other, which is 
the beft teft to Prove them diftin& fpecies, 
The virtues of this are 
the fame with thofe of 
the common Englifh kind 
3 and thefe bulbs from 
the 
