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Styles 2, persistent. Caps. 2-c0lled, with 2 beaks, opening 

 , by a pore betwjeen the beaks. 



2. CHBYsOSPLENitnk. Oal. 4-fld, half superior. Cor. 0. 

 Stam. 8, rarely 10. Styles 2. Caps. 1-celled, with 2 beaks, 

 opening into the form of a cup. 



3, Parnassia. Cal. 5-cleft, inferior. Pet. 5. Stam. 5, 

 perigyuous, with 5 scales bearing glandular bristles inter- 

 posed. Stigm. 4, sessile. Caps. 1-celled, with 4 valves. 



1. SAXiysAGA lAnn. Saxifrage. 



Sec. 1. With decumbent barren shoots at the base. 



* Cal. re/lexed mfmorjjl, panided, flowering stems leapiessi 



t Filaments enlarged upwards. Robbbtsonia Haw. 



1. S. umhrdsa (L.) ; I. obovate with cartilaginous crenatures 

 or sharp notches tapering at the base into dilated footstdliks with 



flat edges, panicle racemose. — a. ; 1. crenate or dentate spreading. 

 E. B. 663. — 0. S.punctata (Haw.); 1. nearly round acutely ser- 

 rate erect. R., I. ;t. 622, 623. — y. S. serratifolia (Ma,ck.) ; 1. 

 oblong acutely serrate erect. E. B. S. 2891. — West of Ireland 

 (all the forms). Yorkshire (var. a.), a doubtful native. P. 

 VI. London pride. St^ Patrick's Cabbage. [E.] I. 



2. S. eJegans (Mack.) ; I. round smooth shining acutely ser- 

 rate, footstalks broad convex beneath with flat edges, panicle race- 

 mose. — E. B. S. 2892. — L. not tapeiing into the footstalks.— 

 Very rare. Top of Turk Mountain, Killamey. Connor HiU, 

 Ken-y. P. VI. I. 



3. S. hirsuta (L.) ; /. ovcd sharply serrate, footstalks linear 

 semicylitulrical with raised edges hairy,' panicles raceriiose.— 

 Footstalks slightly taper^ing upwards. L. longer than broad. — 

 Very rare. Gap of Dunloe and Connor Hill, Keriy. Hungry 

 HUl, Co.Cork. P. VI. I. 



4. S, Geum (L.); I. transversdy oval or reniform crenate or 

 dentate, footstalks semicylindrical wiih raised edges hairy, panicle 

 racemose. — E. B. S. 2893.^L. always broader than long, usuaUy 

 hairy, sometimes glabrous, often beautifully netted' with pttrple- 

 beneath.— West of Ireland. P. VL I. 



\_S. Andrexos'ii. (Harv.) ; 1. linear-spathulate dentate-serrate 

 with a membranous margin tapering below into a dilated plane- 

 convex footstalk, panicle racemose. — Sep. patent, oblong, blunt. 

 Pet. thrice as long as cal., oblong, punctate. — ^Head of Glen 

 Cairs%h,'K.^Tcf. Mr. Andfews, Some error. A garden hybrid. 

 P. VI.J ■ I. 



