NAT. ORDER. 
SaxifragecB. 
SAXIFEAGA LiaULATA. FEINaED SAXIFEAGE. 
Class Decandria. Order II. Digynia. 
Gen. Char. Caly.r, five, parted. Petals, five, on short claws. Sta- 
mens, ten. Capsules, adnate to the calyx. Seeds, numerous. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, obovate, subcordate. Mowers, pale-red, almost 
white. 
This j^lctnt has a thick woody rvot, bearing- several large spread- 
ing-, bright-g-reen, broadly ovate leaves, beautifully ciliated at the mar- 
g-in, and frequently waved there also ; the petiole is short, thick, bear- 
ing- a long-, erect, ciliated sheath or ligule (whence the specific name) 
just above where it is set on the stem ; scales five or six inches long-, 
with one or two hracteas, and terminated by a cymose ^anic/e of larg-e, 
handsome, white flowers, frequently ting-ed with rose-color ; calyx ob- 
tuse and red at the base, and g-reener upwards, and five-cleft ; corolla 
of five, obovate petcds, with short claws ; stamens ten ; filaments erect, 
alternately shorter, rose-colored ; anthers reddish purple ; germen free ; 
styles long-, erect ; stigmas obtuse. 
Saxifraga petroza. Rock Saxifrag-a. This plant g-rows almost 
flat upon the g-round, only rising- from three to six inches in heig-ht ; the 
leaves are radical and palmately five-lobed ; cauline ones tripartite 
and cut ; peduncles are very long-, one-flowered ; calycine seg-ments 
linear, acute ; petals obovate, truncate at the apex and emarg-inate, 
twice the leng-th of the calyx ; the plant is diffusely branched, and fur- 
nished with glanduliferious hairs ; stems erect, branched at the base ; 
branches elong-ated fastigiated ; radical leaves on long- petioles, some- 
VoL. IV.— 182. 
