Chryfofplenium Oppofitifollum. Common Golden Saxifrage. 



CHRYSOSPLENIUM Unruel Gen. PL Decandria "Digynia. 



Cal. 4-f. 5-fidus, coloratus. Cor. o. Caps. 2-roftris, i lo- 

 cularis, polyfperma. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 5. Herbje flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apetalo 



POTIUS. 



CHRYSOSPLENIUM oppofitifollum foliis oppofitis. Lin, SyJ. Vegetab. p. 342. Sp. PL 569. 

 CHRYSOSPLENIUM foliis conjugatis. Haller. Hifu No. 1549. 

 SAXIFRAGA rotundifolia aurea. Bauhin. pin. p. 309. 



SAXIFRAGA aurea. Ger. emac. 841. Parkinfon 425. Rati Syn. 158. Golden Saxifrage. 

 Hudfon PI. Angl. p. 156. 

 Oeder PI. Dan. ic. 365. 

 Lightfoot PL Scot, p, 220. 



RADICES perennes, fibrofae, capillares. | ROOTS fibrous,, capillary, and perennial. 



CAULES bafi repentes, quadrati, tenerrimi, ere&i, $ STALKS creeping at bottom, fquare, very tender, 

 palmares et ultra, pilis raris hirfuti; ramoli, | upright, about four inches in height, befet 

 luperne dichotomi. | with a few ftiffiih hairs, branched, and fork- 

 s' ed at top. 



FOLIA oppofita, connata, petiolata, patentia, fubro- t LEAVES oppofite, connate, ftanding on foot-ftalks, 



tunda, pilis raris albidis hirfuta, dentato- | fpreading, of a roundifh figure, befet with a 



crenata, fubcarnofa, e flavo virefcentia, fubtus | few white ftiffiih hairs, indented or crenated 



albida, fuprema profundius crenata. t at the edges, fomewhat flefhy, ofayellowifh 



I green colour, but whitifh underneath ; the 



¥ uppermoft leaves more deeply notched. 

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FLORES flavi, feffiles, fummis ramis infidentes, co- | FLOWERS yellow, feffile, fitting on the tops of the 

 rymbofi, faftigiati. I branches, forming a corymbus perfectly flat 



¥ at top. 



CALYX: PERiANTHiuMquadripartitum, rarius quin- f CALYX: a Peri anthium divided into four fegments, 



quepartitum, patens, .flavum, perfiftens ; la- i feldom into five, fpreading, of a yellow colour, 



ciniis ovatis, fubaequalibus, fig. 1, 2. | and continuing; the fegments ovate, and 



% nearly equal 5 fig. 1,2. 

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COROLLA nulla. | COROLLA wanting. 



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STAMINA: Filamento odto, (in fupremo flore de- | STAMINA: eight Filaments, (in the top flower 



cem aliquando obfervantur,) fubulata, ere&a, % ten are fometimes obfervable,) tapering, up- 



longitudine fere calycis : Anthers didymas, | right, almoft the length of the calyx: An- 



fubrotundse, flavae, fig. 3, 4. f ther;e double, roundifh, and yellow,/^. 3, 4, 



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NECTARIUM fquamula crenulata germen cingens, | NECTARY a fcale with a crenated edge, furrounding 



fig. 5. % the germen, fig. 5. 



PISTILLUM : Germen inferum, definens in Stylos | PISTILLUM : Germen placed below the calyx, end- 

 duos, fubulatos, longitudine ftaminum : Stig- % ing in two tapering- Styles, the length of 

 mata obtufa, fig. 6. I the Stamina : Stigmata blunt, fig. 6. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsula biroftris, bipartite, uni- | SEED-VESSEL ; a Capsule haying two beaks^ or 

 locularis, bivalvis, calyce viridi cin&a. | horns, dividing in the middle, of one cavity, 



% and two valves, furrounded by a green Calyx. 



SEMINA plurima, minuta, aurantiaca. ? SEEDS numerous, minute, of an orange colour. 



THE antient botanifts fhewed no fmall botanic difcernment in confidering this plant as a Saxifraga ; and al- 

 though in ftria propriety it may be neceffary to form a different genus of it, yet its affinity mufl be con- 

 feffed to be very great. 



The part which Linnjeus calls the Receptaculum angulatum, appears to be more properly a kind of Necfarium ; 

 the Stamina proceed from beneath, not out of it. 



As the terminal flower in this plant is rarely divided into more than four fegments, and has only eight 

 Stamina, it would perhaps be more proper to place it in the clafs Octandria. 



It grows in great abundance in the boggy part of Charlton Wood', and flowers in April. The feeds ripen 

 in May. 



Authors are filent as to its ufeful or noxious qualities. 



