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Cal. at length rejlexed inferior, st. leafy, I. imdivided. 
6. S., Hire id us (L.) ; st. erect, barreu shoots prostrate filiform, 
1. alternate lanceolate flat entire, root-1. narrowed into a foot- 
stalk, sep. blunt fringed at the margin, pet. blunt with 2 hard 
points near the base.— ^. B. 1009. .s7. 35. 8.— Fl. few or soli- 
tary, terminal. Pet. obovate, spreading, yellow dotted with 
red. St. 4—8 in. high, downy in the upper part. Wet moors, 
rare. P. VIII. E. S. 1. 
*** Cal. erect or sjyreadimi half inferior, st. leafy, I. simple 
toothed or with rigid jointless cilia, also a transparent 
gland at the tip. ' 
7. <S'. aizdules (L.) ; st. decumbent below, 1. alternate linear- 
oblong mucronate ciliate entire tlat above convex beneath, sep. 
blunt. — E. B. 39. St. 35. 9. — Fl. in a leafy panicle, with glu- 
tinous downy stalks. Pet. bright yellow often spotted with 
scarlet. St. 3 — 6 in. long. L. rigidly ciliate or with several 
strong teeth. — Wet places on mountains. P. VII. — IX. E.S.I. 
**** Cal. erect o»" spreading suj^erior or half inferior, st. more 
or less leafy, I. lobed, cilia all jointed. S. hypnoides, 
Hook.— See Baker in J. of B. viii. 280, 355. ' / 
8. S. ccesjntdsa (L. em. Sm.) ; root-l. crowded 3 — 5-cleft Hunt 
veined fringed, fl. 1 — 5, pet. rounded 3-veined, cal. half inferior, 
sep. blunt. — Barren st. very .short. Fi. white. Germen broad 
and rounded below. Common base of the 1. not furrowed. 
Anth. long, cordate with an open notch. Horns of caps, 
spreading. — ,3. .S. incurvifolia (D. Don) ; stem-1. more numerous 
with incurved lobes. E. B. S. 2909.— Very rare. Caernarvon- 
shire. Westmoreland. Aberdeenshire. Kerry. P. V. VI. 
E. S. I. 
9. S. rosacea (Moench); /. crowded 3 — 4-cleft, lobes lanceolate 
pointed fringed, fl. few (usually 3> loosely pa^mcled, pet. obovate 
3-veined, cal. half inferior, sep. bluntish. — S. decip'iens (Ehrh.).^ 
.S'. hirta (Sm.). E. B. 2291 (not Haw.). S. JSternbergii ed. 
viii. — L. on the barren shoots as well as the radical 1. 3-cleft, 
the lateral lobes often divided halfway down, lobes diverging. 
Barren shoots 3 — 6 or 8 in. long, weak. Fi.-st. hairj- glandular, 
bearing 2 or 3 deeply 3-lobed 1. and a few simple linear bracts ; 
I Prof. Engler (Monogr. Saxif.) includes as vars. under this name S. Sternbcrgii, 
WiUd., S. quinmief.da, Haw. ( = S. spoiihemica, Gmel.), and S. grrenlandica, L., 
and has referred some British specimens to the last named. — H. & J. G. 
