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XXXVII. SAXIFKAGACE.E. 
[ Saxifraga. 
**** Flowering-stem leafy , erect or spreading. Leaves all entire. 
7. S. Hirculus L. ( yellow Marsh S.) ; stem erect, leaves al- 
ternate lanceolate, those from the root attenuated into a petiole, 
calyx inferior at length reflexed obtuse downy at the margin 
as well as the upper part of the stem. E. B. t. 1009. 
Wet moors, very rare. Knutsford, Cheshire; Cotherstone-fell, 
Yorkshire. Langton, Berwickshire ; Walston, Lanarkshire. Queen's 
County, Ireland. If.. 8. — Flowers yellow, large, solitary. Petals 
almost elliptical. 
8. S. aizoides L. ( yellow Mountain S.) ; lower leaves of the 
stem numerous crowded, the rest scattered linear-lanceolate 
fleshy more or less ciliate, stem branched ascending, calyx 
spreading, capsule half-superior. E.B. t. 39. 
Abundant near alpine rills, and in springy places in mountainous 
countries; north of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. If.. 
6 — 9. — Stem 5 — 7 inches high, branching below. Flowers panicled, 
subcorymbose, bright yellow ; each petal beautifully spotted with 
orange. 
***** Flowering- stems erect or spreading, more or less leafy. Leaves 
( some or all ) lobed. Calyx spreading. 
9. S. granuldta L. ( 'white Meadow S .) ; granulated under- 
ground, radical leaves renifonn on long foot-stalks obtusely 
lobed, those of the upper part of the stem nearly sessile acutely 
lobed, stein panicled, capsule partly inferior. E. B. t. 500. 
Hedge-banks, meadows, and pastures, especially on a gravelly soil. 
Tn many parts of the south and middle of Scotland, but scarcely 
known in the Highlands. Between Baldoyle and Portmarnock, 
Ireland. If.. 5,6. — Stem 8 — 12 inches high, glandulose-pilose, 
with numerous, small, clustered tubers under ground. Leaves mostly 
radical, glabrous ; petioles glandular. Flowers large, white. 
10. S. cernua L. ( drooping bulbous S.) ; radical leaves reni- 
form on long foot-stalks palmate-lobate, superior ones nearly 
sessile subtrifid, stem bulbiferous usually simple with one ter- 
minal flower, capsule superior. E. B. t. 664. 
Rocks on the summit of Ben Lawers. 2f. 8 Stem 5 — 4 or 
5 inches high, slender. Leaves glabrous, and the stem, which droops 
at the extremity, nearly so. In the axils of the small upper leaves are 
clusters of minute reddish bulbs or rather tubers. We have never 
seen native specimens of this in fruit. 
11. S. rinuldris L. ( alpine Brook S.) ; leaves 3 — 5-lobed 
palmate glabrous on long stalks, stem slender branched pubes- 
cent, branches few-flowered, bracteas oblong sessile 3-lobed 
and entire, capsule half-inferior. E. B. t. 2275. 
