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quently grows by road-fidcs, even at the foot 

 of them, as at the pafs of Killicranky^ neaf 

 Blair, &c. %, VII. VIII. 

 The root throws out feveral trailing furculi : the 

 ilalks are fix or eight inches high, reclining at 

 the bafe : the leaves are of a narrow elliptical 

 form, acute, fefTile, alternate, and generally a 

 little ciliated on the edges, though fometimes 

 fmooth : the flowers grow at the top of theilaik, 

 one or two upon a peduncle, in number from 

 four, to ten, or a dozen : the petals are elliptical, 

 yellow, generally dotted with faffron-color'd 

 fpots, and grow expanded and plane : the feg- 

 ments of the calyx are of the fame length as the 

 petals, and grow open and fiat. 

 That this is the fame plant which Linnaus calls 

 Saxifraga aizoides, growing in Sweden and Lap- 

 landy there can be no doubt, from the defcrip- 

 tions and figures of authors : we chufe therefore, 

 with Jacq^iiin and Haller, to confider them both 

 as one fpecies, and adopt the trivial name of 

 autumnalis as well fulted to both. The plant? 

 growing upon Knotsford moor, in Chejhire^ men- 

 tioned by Ray and HudfoUy and fuppofed by the 

 latter to be the S. autumnalis^ of Linn^us, we 

 have feen, and found to be the S. hirculus of 

 that author, figur'd in Oed. Dan. t, 200. & HalL 

 Stirp, Helvet. vol I. ^. 140. /. 11. 



*** Foliis Icbatis, caule erecfo, 



^raniilatas SAXIFRAGA foliis caulinls rcniformlbus lobatis, 



cauk 



