NOTES ON SAXIFRAGA. 67 
ee is to be enforced, it must surely yield to S. autwmnalis L. 
lc. 402 ? 
S. androsacea Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 310 (‘‘ Nelson in Herb. Banks’’) 
certainly = S. Hireulus, although rhe mesg the flowers as 
white. Itis given as “‘= cespitosa?”’ d. Kew 
"8. angustifolia Haworth, Mise. Nat. 166, is, as is ‘iinditally under- 
stood, a form of S. ‘hypnoides, to which, indeed, Haworth later 
(Saxifr. Enum. ve referred it. He says: ‘I gathered this 
species on a mountain in Westmoreland in the year 1795. 
friend Mr. Dixont hi also found it growing spontaneously 
Herbarium, which name I have therefore adopted.” e 
neem specimen, a is  ecueicie in Solander’s MSS., 
m Kew Gardens 
8. angus rein should oad as jee D. Don in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. x 
8. BRACTEATA - Don, l.c. 367. I do not find this apparently very 
distinct species in Engler’s monograph, although it is dul 
recognized by Seringe (in DC. Prodr. iv. 37), who follows Don 
in placing it near cernua and rivularis. The type-sheet from 
Herbs Lambert contains many excellent specimens. 
S. bryoides? Pall. ex D. Don, l. c. 882 = bronchialis (not nitida as 
in Ind. Kew.). 
S. ceratophylla Dryand. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. p. 70. I do not 
fin ‘ ities wd : types in Herb. Banks, nor his MS. desetiption. 
wo sheets from Pavon, on which D. Don based his 
desertion of . ceratophylla, are now in Herb. Brit. Mus 
S. corprot1a Haw. is generally recognized as very diettnnd from 
S. cra sifolia, to whist it is referred in Ind. Kew 
*§, davurica Hort. ex D. Don, l. c. 354 = sanetlia: 
S. scichaperye He S. microphylla, and S. protensa Schle 
Hel m4 00 
Saxifraga and Aconitum, attributed to various authors under 
abbreviations which, in at least one instance—‘‘ Angz.” t—have 
an unfamiliar aspect. Of the three names I have cited, the first 
two are localized in the Index ‘ Eur. centr.,” and the third is 
given as from ‘“‘ Helvet.’”’; but as x abbetiets nothing beyond the 
name is known about the plants, this localization must be p 
guesswork. All who use the Index know that the geographical 
distribution is its weakest side. It is, I think, much to be 
t * Mr. J. Dixon, of Sy eng an assiduous and successful cultivator oF 
—Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 325. 
ti Sav a suspicion that this means “Anglorum,” but this is mere con- 
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