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GROSSULACEiE SAXIFRAGES. 
y. spicatum (Hook.) ; racemes erect both in flower and fruit, 
"fl. nearly sessile." R. spicatum Robs. E. B. 1290. — R. pe- 
treeum (Wulf.) has a bellshaped coloured calyx ciliated at the 
margin, and leaves deeply divided into somewhat triangular 
acute lobes. — Woods in mountainous districts. /3. North of En- 
gland, Scotland, y. Richmond, Yorkshire. Sh. V. VI. Red 
Currant. 
Order XXXVII. SAXIFRAGE7E. 
Cal. 4 — 5-cleft, superior or inferior. Pet. 4 — 5, rarely 0. 
Stam. 5 — 10, free, perigynous or hypogynous. Glandular disk 
present or wanting. Ovary of 2 carpels cohering by the indexed 
sides or margins. Styles 2, persistent. Caps. 2-valved: Seeds 
numerous. Albumen fleshy. 
1. Saxifraga. Cal. 5-fid or 5-parted, more or less adnate 
to the ovary or free. Cor. of 5 petals. Stam. 10. Styles 
2, persistent. Caps. 2-celled, with 2 beaks, opening by a 
pore between the beaks. 
2. Chrysosplenium. Cal. 4-fid, half superior. Cor. 0. 
Stam. 8, rarely 10. Styles 2. Caps. 1 -celled, with 2 beaks, 
opening into the form of a cup. 
1. Saxifraga Linn. 
Sec. 1. With decumbent barren shoots at the base. 
* Cal. rejlexed inferior, fl. panicled, flowering stems leafless. 
Robertsonia. 
f Filaments enlarged upwards. 
1. S. umbrosa (L.) ; I. ohovate with cartilaginous crenatures 
or sharp notches tapering at the base into dilated flat footstalks, 
panicle racemose, caps, superior. — a. crenata (Bab.) ; 1. bluntly 
crenate spreading. — /3. crenato-serrata (Bab.) ; 1. acutely crenate 
or subserrate spreading. E. B. 663. — y. punctata (Don) ; 1. nearly 
round acutely serrate erect. S. punctata (Haw.) R. Icon. t. 622, 
623. — S. serratifolia (Mack.) ; 1. oblong acutely serrate erect. 
S. serratifolia (Mack.) R. Icon. t. 624. — See Ann. Nat. Hist. 
viii. 321. 11. — \a. Yorkshire, a doubtful native. Specimens 
from Heselden Gill are exactly the plant of the Pyrenees and do 
not agree with the E. B. figure said to have been taken from a 
plant gathered there. — (3. y. 3. (Indigenous.) West of Ireland. 
P. VI. London Pride. St. Patrick's Cahbage. E. ? I. 
2. S. elegans (Mack.) ; I. round smooth shining acutely ser- 
rate, footstalks broad flat aboi'e convex beneath, panicle racemose, 
caps, superior. — R. Icon. t. 625. — L. not tapering into the foot- 
stalks. — Very rare. Top of Turk Mountain, Killarney. P. VI. — I. 
