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CHRYSOSPLE'NIUM * *. 



Linnean Class and Order. Deca'ndria, Digy'nia. 



Natural Order. Saxifra'geje, Dec. — Lindl. Syn. p. 66 ; In- 

 trod. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 49. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 511. — 

 Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 517. — Saxifrage, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 308. — 

 Sm. Gram, of Bot. p. 163. — Rosales ; sect. Crassulin^e ; type, 

 Saxifragaceas ; subty. Heucherida: ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. pp. 

 614, 730, 733, & 734. — Succulentas, Linn. 



Gen. Char. Calxjx (see fig. 2.) superior, of 1 sepal, in 4 or 5 

 deep, unequal, spreading, permanent, internally coloured, seg- 

 ments ; the opposite ones the narrowest. Corolla none. Fila- 

 ments (see fig. 2.) 8 or 10, awl-shaped, upright, very short, from 

 the mouth of the calyx. Anthers roundish, 2-lobed. Germen 

 (fig. 1.) inferior, roundish ; prominent at the summit. Styles 

 (fig. 1.) 2, awl-shaped, spreading, the length of the stamens. 

 Stigmas obtuse. Capsule (fig. 3.) of 1 cell, and 2 valves, beaked 

 with the permanent styles, and surrounded with the calyx turned 

 green. Seeds (fig. 4.) roundish, numerous, small. 



Distinguished from other genera, in the same class and order, 

 by the 4- or 5-cleft, somewhat coloured, superior calyx ; the want 

 of a corolla ; and the 2-beaked, many-seeded capsule , 



The terminal flower, being generally 5-cleft, with 10 stamens, 

 regulates the class, as in Adoxa, folio 42. 



Two species British. 



CHRYSOSPLE'NIUM OPPOSITIFO'LIUM. Common Golden- 

 Saxifrage. 



Spec. Char. Leaves opposite, roundish-heart-shaped, cre- 

 nated. Flowering-stem upright ; flowers corymbose. 



Engl. Bot. t. 490. — Curt. FI. Lond. t. 138. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 569. — Huds. 

 FI. Angl. (2nd edit.) p. 178. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. p. 448. Engl. FI. v. ii. p. 

 260. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p.527. — Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. ii. p. 537. — Lindl. Syn. 

 p. 67. — Hook. Brit. FI. p. 190. — Lightf. FI. Scot. v. i. p. 220. — Sibth. FI. Oxon. 

 p. 137.— Abbot’s FI. Bedf. p. 93.-Purt. Midi. FI. v. i. p. 210.— Hook. FI. Scot, 

 p. 128. — Grev. FI. Edin. p. 93. — FI. Devon, pp. 71 & 168. — Johnston’s FI. of 

 Berwick, v. i. p. 94. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. iii. p.227. — Walk. 

 FI. of Oxf. p. 119. — Perry’s PI. Varvic.Selectae, p.38. — Bab. FI. Bath. p. 19.— 

 Mack. Catal. of PL of lrel. p. 40 ,—Saxifraga aurea, Ray’s Syn. p. 158. — 

 Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 841. 



Localities. — In watery shady places, and by the sides of rivulets. Not un- 

 common. — Oxfordsh. On Shotover Hill, near the Spring; Shotover Planta- 

 tions: Dr. Sibthori>. Abundant in an old fish-pond in Shotover Plantations, 

 a little below the Ochre Pits ; May 10, 1835. Also in a wet ditch between the 

 Ochre Pits and the Plantations: W. B. In Horspath Lane : Rev. R. Walker, 

 B. D.— Bedfordsh. At Evershott: Rev. C. Abbot. — Devon; In wet, shady. 



Fig. 1. Germen and Styles. — Fig. 2. A Flower, a little magnified, shewing 

 the 8 Stamens and 2 Pistils. — Fig. 3. Capsule and permanent Calyx. — Fig 4. 

 A Seed. 



* From chrysos, Gr. gold; and splen, Gr. the spleen-, in reference to the 

 golden colour of the flowers, and the supposed virtue of the plant in diseases of 

 the spleen. Don. 



t See Saponaria officinales, folio 37, note f. 



