518 38. UMBELLIFERS. 
Saxifraga pygmea, Haw. 
Province? “ Highlands of Scotland; Mr. James Donn.” 
Ambiguity. Smith’s English Flora, ii. 273. 
Saaifraga (hypnoides) platypetala, Sm. 
Provinces - 7 --10-12--15. As recorded. 
Syn. 481. Dr. Boswell Syme places this as the type form of 
S. hypnoides, including with it Smith’s elongella as a synonym 
simply. His alternative or second form is named gemmifera in 
English Botany. This latter is far the more frequent, according 
to my own observations, and why it should be assigned to the 
subordinate place of variety, instead of being the leading variety or 
type form, is not made clear. Other names appear in books, but I 
am unprepared to say anything about the distribution of the special 
forms they are supposed to mean; such are lete-virens and denudata, 
names bestowed upon varieties of hypnoides alleged to occur on the 
Highland mountains. 
Saaifraga hirta, “ Donn Cant.” 
Province - 7-? North Wales and Scotland; Eng. Flo. 
Ambiguity. Quite unknown to me. 
Saaifraga pedatifida, Ehrh. 
Province - 15. Clova mountains, Forfar; G. Don in E. F. 
Error. Cyb.i. 417. iii. 487. ‘Don does not pretend to have 
found it, but sends a garden specimen, saying he has heard it 
has been found in Scotland”; Dr. Boswell Syme, letter, 1864. 
Mitella diphytla, Linn. 
Province - 5. Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. 
Casual? ‘An American plant, originally escaped from a garden, 
on a bank near Stoke upon Trent”; Garner's Natural History of 
the county of Stafford. 
38. UMBELLIFERA. 
Astrantia major, Linn. 
Province - 5. Hereford. Shropshire. [1 Devon.] 
Alien. Cyb. i. 424. The A. major is recorded in Ravenshaw’s 
Flora of Devon, on authority of the Rev. G. B. Warren; but 
Mr. Eyre Parker says that it is the A. minor which is found in 
Mr. Warren’s locality. 
Echinophora spinosa, Linn. 
Provinces - 2 3 - [12]. Dorset. Kent. [Lake Lancashire.] 
Extinct Casual? Cyb.i. 464. ui. 447. Dill. R. Syn. 220. 
Petroselinum sativum, Hoffm. 
Provinces 1 2, etc. Casual in 3 to 16. 
Alien. Cyb. i. 429. Established on cliffs of the south coast. 
