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SAXIFRAGE/E 



fringed ; floK'ers like tho'^ie of the preceding, but smaller. Wet 

 places in the mountains in the north, in Wales, and in Ireland. 

 Fl. June —September. Perennial. 



*-:f-;r** J^cavcs hnhul, palmately-lobed : flowers ii'hite 

 9. S. tridactylUis (Three-fingered Saxifrage). — A small, very 



hairy, and viscid species with 

 glaitdular hairs, rarely more 

 than 3 in. high, usually 

 tinged with red, branched; 

 leaves palmatcly 3 — 5-lobed, 

 segments linear - oblong ; 

 flowers minute, numerous, 

 scattered. — On walls and dry 

 places; common. Generally 

 covered with dead flies, 

 though there is in its case 

 no -evidence that they are 

 digested or assimilated. — Fl. 

 April — July. i\nnua]. 



10. .v. rifiildris (Alpine 

 Brook Saxifrage). — .-V small, 

 tuft'ed, slender, succulent, 

 slightly glandular, prostrate 

 species ; leaves reniform, 

 palmatcly 5-lolied, on slen- 

 der' stalks ; f/o'cvers i — 3 

 tog^-ther, small, white. — liy 

 streams near the summits of 

 Highland mountains; rare, 

 --kl. July, August I\Ten- 

 nial., 



11. .S'. eeniiia (Drooping 

 Fulljous Saxifrage). — A 

 small, erect, unbranched 

 spejcies, with scaly bulbs in 



the axils of its stalked, reniform, palniatcly-lobed leaves and a 

 solitary, drooping //rAxvv, which in Scotland is generalU' replaced 

 by a reddish bulbil. Occurs only on the summit of Ijen Fawers. — 

 I'l. June -August. i'ercmiial. 



12. S. t^ra)iuldta (While Meadow Saxifrage).— A pretty plant, 

 closely allied to the preceding ; stems slender, Icafv, 10 — \2 in. 

 high, with numerous brown, downy, bulb-like tiibor-;, as biu; as 

 peas, at their base : nulieal leaves stalked, reniform, palmately- 



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