SAXIFRAGA. 
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1. Saxjf'raga Linn. Saxifrage. 
Sec. 1. With decumbent barren shoots at the base. 
• Cal. t-e/lexed infei-ior,Jl. panicled, JUmering dems leafless. 
t Filaments enlarged upwards. Eobertsonia Haw. 
*. ' 1. S. uynhrdsa (L.); I. obovate with cartilaginous crenatures 
or shai-p notches tapering at the base into dilated flat footstalks, 
panicle racemose. — a ; 1. crenate or dentate spreading. E. B. 
663. — 13. S. punctata (Haw.) ; 1. nearly round acutely sen-ate 
erect. R. I. t. G22, 623.— y. S. serratifolia (Mack.) ; 1. oblong 
acutely senate erect. E. B. S. 2891. — West of Ireland (all the 
forms). Yorkshire (var. a.), a doubtful native. P. VI. London 
Pride. St. Patrick's Cabbage. E. ? I. 
2. iS. eZ'ei5rflfw«( Mack.) rowwrf smooth shining acutely serrate, 
footstalks broad Jlat convex beneath, panicle racemose. — E. B. S. 
2892. — L. not tapering into the footstalks.— Very rare. Top of 
Turk Moimtain, Killarney. Connor Hill, Kerry. P. VI. I. 
3. S. hirsuta (L.) ; I. oval sharply serrate, footstalks linear 
setnicylindrical channeled hair)-, panicles racemose. — E. B. 2322. 
— Footstalks slightly tapering upwards. L. longer than broad. 
— Very rare. Gap of Dunloe and Connor Hill, Kerry. Hungry 
Hill, Co. Cork. P. VI. 1. 
4. S. GSum (L.) ; I. transversely oval or renifoi-m crenate or 
dentate, footstalks semicglindrieal channeled hairy, panicle race- 
mose. — E.B. 1561. E. B. S. 2893. — L. always broader than long, 
usually haiiT, sometimes glabrous, often beautifully netted with 
purple beneath. — West of Ireland. P. VI. I. 
tt Filaments subulate. Spatuxajiia Haw. 
■ 5. S. stelldris (L.) ; I. oblong wedyeshaped dentate-senate nar- 
row below scarcely stalked, panicle corymbose of few flowers.— 
E.B.m. -S;. 35. 3.— Stems tufted. 'Fl. -stalks 1—5 in. high, 
naked. Pet. ovate, clawed, white with 2 transverse yellow spots 
on their lower half — ^. integri folia (Hook.) ; 1. quite entire. — 
Damp rocks on moimtains. ^. Ben Nevis. P. VH. E. S. I. 
** Cal. at length rejlexed inferior, st. leafy, I. undivided. 
6. S. Hir'cuhs (L.) ; st. erect, banen shoots prostrate filiform, 
\. alternate lanceolate flat entire, root-1. nanowed into a foot- 
stalk, sep. blunt fringed at the margin, pet. blunt -wath 2 hard 
points near the base.— ^. B. 1009. -Sif. 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. 
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