100 SAXIFRAGEH. [Saxtfaga. 
Linn., says “ both surfaces almost perfectly smooth in all my 
specimens ”’; and certainly no form of this plant yet seen 
in Kerry by the present writer equalled in hairiness an almost 
bristly state of typical S. Gewm gathered beside a rocky 
stream near the base of Brandon. 
Linné’s own description of the leaves of his 8S. hirsuta is 
“ foliis cordato-ovalibus.” Plants with leaves fulfilling 
these conditions are rare in Kerry, and like all these inter- 
mediate forms are found only where S. Geum and S. wmbrosa 
grow together. Examples are given on PI. III.,* figs. 1-8. 
They have been found in—I. Uragh Wood by Inchiquin 
Lake, Cloonee valley: Hart 1885, and in 1908: R.W.S. 
Near the tunnel on the Kenmare-Glengarriff road and in 
several places in the Slaheny valley, 1904: &.W.S.—II. On 
Beeown Mountain north of Sneem, 1900.—III. On the 
Coomasaharn Mountains, Glenbeigh, and on Valencia 
Island, 1892: Colgan & R.W.S.—IV. On rocks at the Gap 
of Dunloe near Killarney, 1805 : Mackay Cat., and in 1904: 
R.W.S. In the Hag’s Glen and by the Devil’s Ladder, 
Carrantuohill (J. Carroll) Phytol. 1854, p.77. Near Coom- 
loughra, Reeks, and in a gully above Lough Reagh, Glencar : 
Hart 1882. On the Glencar side of Beeown Mountain, 1900: 
Colgan & R.W.S.—V. On Brandon plentifully (Moore) Cyb. 
1866 ; on Connor Hill, 1841: Babington in Herb.—seen in 
both these stations and on the Slieve Mish Mountains, 
1888-1908: R.W.S.—VI. On the east side of Mangerton 
and on several other mountains in Kerry, 1804-05 : Mackay. 
Rar. On the Paps Mountain and in several spots about 
Tore Mountain, 1888-1914: R.W.S. 
The above localities, so far as the writer’s own records 
are concerned, are for plants with the cordate oval leaves 
of Linné, but later authors like Hooker and Babington have 
extended his hirsuta to include forms with oval leaves 
rounded at the base or even narrowing into the petiole, 
Neither of the S. hirsuta forms, for instance, illustrated in 
Babington’s paper on these Saxifrages (Ann. & Mag. of 
Nat. Hist. 1842, p. 321), nor any of the three figured in 
another of his papers in the Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., Vol. IT., 
1846, p. 113, are cordate, one of the latter figures being 
drawn from a Spanish specimen. As thus extended, §, 
hirsuta is not uncommon in Kerry, and would include a 
* Puate III, (2 life-size)— 
8S. hirsuta Linn. (Sensu stricto—i.c., Oval-cordate)—figs, 1-8, 
S. hireuta Auct. (Sensu lato—i,e., Oval)—figs, 9-23, some merging into 
S, umbrosa forms, 
