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40. SAXIFRAGACEAS . 
Tribe II. Saxifrages. 
2. Saxifraga L. 
Sect. Dactyl oides Tauscli. Per. with decumbent barren shoots ; 
fl. panicled, fl.-st. leafy, sep. erect or spreading, superior. 
1. S. MADERENSIS Don. 
Cespitose rigid viscid all oyer as if varnished ; st. short suf- 
frutescent ascending or decumbent densely leafy ; 1. crowded on 
long stalks, the lower reniformly subquinato-palruatifid, the 
lobes subtrifid, teeth acute half-ovate or triangular; upper 1. 
trifid or entire and lanceolate ; fl.-st. short leafy mostly glandu- 
lar-pubescent upwards, about 5-fld. ; sep. half-inferior ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate acute ; pet. oblong-spatliulate 2-3 times as long 
as sep. — Don “in Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. 114” ; Spr. ii. 371; DC), 
iv. 30. S. geranioides Buch 197. no. 362 (not Linn., Host, &c.). — 
Herb. per. Mad. reg. 3, 4, A ; PS. reg. 4, r. Craggy rocks all along 
the Caminho central from the Primeira Vista do Curral to the 
Encumeada ; Curral das Freiras on both sides ; Eib. de S ta Luzia 
near the Waterfall and in all the principal Ravines in the 
north of the Island ; at P ta do Pargo on a bank below the 
Church, &c. In PS. on the craggy top of Pico do Facho, P. do 
Castello, &c. Apr.-Jime. — Forming usually large thick beds 
or spreading tufts, rarely solitary, very stiff and glutinous in 
almost all its parts, as if varnished, like Sempcrv. glidinosum 
Ait. and with a resinous fragrance like the buds of the Horse 
Chestnut (JEscidus llippocastanum L.) in early spring. The 
whole pi., as Haller says of Ger. lucidum L., “ amat rubescere” ; 
the petioles, fl.-st., edges of 1. and often their whole surface turn- 
ing at least in withering bright red. St. 2-4 in. long almost 
slir. downwards hard and stiff thickly clothed with old dried 1. 
or petioles. L. crowded upwards dark full gr. quite smooth but 
clammy, somewhat fleshy, stiff or brittle, roundedly or sub- 
reniformly palmatifid more or less cuneate |-1 in. broad or long, 
4-9 lines long or broad, faintly 3-nerved, coarsely and unequally 
cut into 5-19 (mostly about 14) acute teeth in sets of 3 or 5, the 
middle set always 3-toothed, the 2 side lobes often 2-toothed. 
Petioles 1-1| in. long flattened dilated at their base and some- 
times slightly fringed or puberulous, smooth upwards and often 
so altogether, though always very clammy. Fl.-st. slender about 
2 in. high red shining varnished and clammy smooth below, 
upwards with the ped. more or less glandular-pubescent, bear- 
ing at top a loose subcorymbose panicle of 3-7 (mostly about 5, 
rarely 1 or 2) conspicuous pure w. fl. St.-l. rather distant, the 
upper simple lanceolate or linear. Fl. largo and elegant, in size 
and aspect much like those of S. granulata L. Cal. united to 
the ov. halfway up, less pubescent than the pedic. and upper 
part of fl.-st., sometimes quite smooth always viscid, sep. short 
