SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFO'LIA. 
OPPOSITE-LEAVED SAXIFRAGE. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
SAXIFRAGACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
2 inches. Alar., April. 
Perennial. 
Alpine rock9. 
No. 1120. 
The meaning of the name of this little “ stone- 
breaking” plant, will be found under No. 1000. 
Great Britain possesses no prettier plant of its 
class than Saxifraga oppositifolia. The common 
variety of it, with lilac flowers, published at No. 
127, is not uncommon in some of the alpine dis- 
tricts of Scotland, and a few localities have been 
assigned it in Wales ; especially Snowdon, on one 
part of which it is said to be plentiful. In the 
north of Europe and America, it has been found ; 
also in Newfoundland, Labrador, and near to the 
summit of the Rocky Mountains; in Lapland, 
Spitzbergen, Switzerland, and the Pyrenees. The 
white variety, however, which we have desired to 
make known, is a plant rarely met with, even in 
the best collections ; and whence it was originally 
derived, is not recorded. We are indebted for the 
specimen from which our drawing was made, to 
the Messrs. Pope, of Handsworth, who assiduously 
collect novelties of this class. 
No one who has attempted the cultivation of 
Alpine Plants, to which class the Saxifraga oppo- 
sitifolia legitimately belongs, will have failed to 
