98 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
A NEW HYBRID SAXIFRAGE FROM SCOTLAND. 
By Rev. E. §. Marswatu, M.A., F.L.S. 
SAXIFRAGA NIVALIS X STELLARIS ( x S. Crawfordii mihi), n. hybr. 
Planta (in exemplis a me visis, junioribus) nana, sub anthesi 
uncialis-biuncialis. Radix foliis anni prioris emarcidis coronata. 
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leaves of the previous year. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
rather thick, subciliate, with scattered white curly hairs above, 
Sepals erect, ovate, subobtuse, frequently dark purple, especially 
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reddish at the tip, hardly twice as long as the calyx. 
wanting. 
My friend the late F. C. Crawford sent me, about six years 
ago, half a dozen specimens gathered by him on August 7th, 1902, 
in Corrie Sneachda, Cairngorm, v.-c. 96 E. Inverness, on granite, 
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Ihave no doubt about its parentage. The general appearance is 
that of a small broad-leaved S. stellaris with capitate inflorescence, 
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highest Alps and in the far north: as in Norway, Greenland, 
rador, &ec.”” But the characters show clear influence of 
S. nivalis ; among these I may specially call attention to the thick 
