DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 119 



Borders of shady rivulets.* Balsal Temple, Warwickshire. Pn. 



Dowdeswell Woods, Gloucestershire. Mr. TV. C. Trevelyan. 

 Per. May. 

 Ls. kidney-shaped, and notched. Corymb, of deep yellow^.) 



Ch. oppositifolium. Opposite-leaved G. Leaves oppo- 

 site. E. B. 490. C. 2. 27. Saxifraga aurea. G. 

 E. 841. 



Watery, shady places. Shotover Hill, near the spring. Shotover 

 Plantations. Sb. Horspath Lane. R. W. 



Per. April. 



Plant fleshy, grows in broad patches of a yellowish hue. Ls. 

 stalked, inclining to heart-shaped, notched. Fls. corymb termi- 

 nal, leafy, pale-yellow, mostly four-cleft. Seeds round, blacldsh. 

 Paler than the first, Ls. smaller. Stamens eight mostly. 



SAXITRAGA. Saxifrage. 



* Calyx spreading. Leaves partly lobed. Stigmas mostly downy. 

 Flowering -stems erect, more or less leafy. 



S. granidata. White Meadow S. Leaves kidney- 

 shaped, lobed. Stem panicled, leafy. Root beaded. 

 Germen half-inferior. E. B. 500. C. 1. 30. S. 

 alba. G. E. 841. 



Meadows, pastures, gravelly, or sandy soil. Sm. 



Per. May. 



Stem, one f. Root with several little grains, attached to one main 

 fibre, with small fibres. Stem solitary, erect, branched above, 

 hairs clammy, brown, or reddish. Ls. and ca/, -teeth clothed 

 with same kind of hairs. Ls. root-ones long stalked, upper 

 ones nearly stalkless, sharply lobed. Cor. large, white, in- 

 versely egg-shaped, much longer than cal. Pet. three veined. 



Var. double}?, in gardens. 

 Has been recommended in stone and gravel, becavise its roots 

 resemble small pebbles, the conclusion, therefore, from doctrine of 

 signatures, should be irresistible. The doctrine of signatures 

 attributed to any substance, having a resemblance to any organ, 

 sovereign virtues in removing the diseases of that organ. B.T.F. 



S. tridactylites . Hue-leaved S. Leaves wedge-shaped, 

 with three or five segments ; the uppermost undivided. 

 Stem panicled, leafy. Stalks single-flowered, alternate. 

 Germen inferior. E. B. 501. C. S. 28. Parony- 

 chia rutaceo folio. G. E. 624. 



TValls, -roofs, dry, barren ground. 



An. April. 



Stems three or four inches, variable in height, erect, round, leafy, 

 much branched above. Whole plant covered with clammy 



