SAXIFEAGACEiE. 



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In wet moors, at high elevations, 

 chiefly in the mountain-ranges of eastern 

 Europe and central and Russian Asia, 

 and generally round the Arctic Circle ; 

 rare in western Europe. In Britain, only 

 in a few localities in northern England, 

 southern Scotland, and Ireland. FL 

 August. 



Fig. 374 



4. Cut-leaved Saxifrage. 

 (Fij 



Saxifraga hypnoides, Linn. 

 . 375.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 454, 8. platypetala, t. 2276, 8. elongella, t. 2277, 8. hirta, 

 t. 2291, and S. affinis, Suppl. t. 2903.) 



Perennial stock usually shortly creep- 

 ing and rather slender, much branched, 

 with numerous decumbent barren shoots, 

 attaining, in moist situations, 2 or 3 

 inches, but sometimes contracted into a 

 short, dense tuft. Leaves mostly entire, 

 2 or 3 lines long, narrow-linear and 

 pointed, but some of the larger ones are 

 often 3-lobed, or even 5-lobed, and at- 

 tain half an inch ; they are glabrous, or 

 more or less ciliated with slender, often 

 glandular, hairs. At the ends of the 

 shoots, and in the axils of the leaves, the 

 leaf-tufts are often somewhat enlarged 

 and crowded into an oblong head or 

 bulb. Flowering stems 3 to 6 inches 

 high, with very few leaves, and from 1 to 

 6 or 8 rather large, white flowers. Calyx 

 adherent to about two-thirds the length 

 of the capsule ; the segments not one- 

 third so long as the petals, and usually Fig. 375. 

 more or less pointed. 



