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SAXIFRAGES 



fringed ; flowers like those of the preceding, but smaller. Wet 

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

 Fl. June — September. Perennial. 



***** Leaves broad, palmately-lobed : flowers white 

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



hairy, and viscid species with 

 glandular hairs, rarely more 

 than 3 in. high, usually 

 tinged with red, branched; 

 leaves palmately 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. Annual. 



10. S. rivuldris (Alpine 

 Brook Saxifrage). — A small, 

 tufted, slender, succulent, 

 slightly glandular, prostrate 

 species ; leaves reniform, 

 palmately 5-lobed, on slen- 

 der stalks ; flowers 1 — 3 

 together, small, white. — By 

 streams near the summits of 

 Highland mountains ; rare. 

 — Fl. July, August, Peren- 

 nial. 



11. S. ccrnua (Drooping 

 Bulbous Saxifrage). — A 

 small, erect, unbranched 

 species, with scaly bulbs in 



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

 solitary, drooping floiver, which in Scotland is generally replaced 

 by a reddish bulbil. — Occurs only on the summit of Ben Lawers. — 

 Fl. June — August Perennial. 



12. S. gratiuldta (White Meadow Saxifrage). — A pretty plant, 

 closely allied to the preceding ; stems slender, leafy, 10—12 in. 

 high, with numerous brown, downy, bulb-like tubers, as big as 

 peas, at their base ; radical leaves stalked, reniform, palmately- 



SAXIFRAGA GRANULATA 



(White Meadow Saxifrage). 



