106 SAXIFRAGEA. [Saxifraga. 
and Lange also in Corsica and the Alps ; it appears, however, 
to be absent from Newfoundland where S. Geum is said to 
occur. 
The nearly allied S. cuneifolia Linn., which ranges on the 
continent from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians, occurs not 
infrequently in Kerry as a garden or rockery plant ; it has 
not yet, however, spread to any wild or native-looking 
locality. 
(S. ANpREwstit Harvey—S. Guthriana Hort.—The history 
of this reputed Kerry Saxifrage appears to be as follows. 
Amongst an extensive gathering of Robertsonian Saxifrage 
forms made by Mr. W. Andrews in various parts of Kerry 
during September, 1845, a very remarkable form was stated 
by him to have been gathered on damp cliffs in a gully near 
the head of Glen Caragh. He removed roots of this then 
flowerless plant to his garden, where after a lapse of nearly 
three years it produced flowers in June, 1848. It was then 
sent to W. H. Harvey who described it in the London 
Journal of Botany, Vol. VII., 1848, p. 571, as a new British 
Saxifrage, and named it after the reputed finder. The plant 
described by Mr. Harvey is now known to be a garden 
hybrid of S. wmbrosa with one of the Aizoon group of Saxi- 
frages, a group unknown as native in the British Isles. The 
rocky head of Glencar has been visited by several botanists, 
all of whom have failed to find any plant which could con- 
firm or account for Mr. Andrew’s alleged discovery. A 
possible explanation of this unfortunate mistake appears 
to be that during the three years the Saxifrage remained in 
Mr. Andrew’s garden either his plants or his labels became 
disarranged. ] 
S. tridactylites Linn. Rue-leaved Saxifrage. 
Districts — — — — V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. 
Native. On walls, limestone rocks and sandhills. Very rare 
or absent in the south, rather common elsewhere except in 
the Dingle peninsula and in the extreme north where it 
appears to be very local. Ann. April—June. Calcicole A. 
Very local in the following Districts—V. In several spots 
about Castlegregory, 1894: R.W.S.—IX. On walls, &c., 
about Listowel : Stewart 1890, and in 1904: R.W.S.. 
First record in 1756: Dr. Smith, Hist. of Kerry, p. 380, 
No. 74, “On the Abbey walls of Ardfert ’’—still there in 
1905: R.W.S. : 
