SILE'NE SAXIF'RAGA. 
SAXIFRAGE CATCHFLY. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
silenacea:. 
Order. 
TRIGKNIA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
France. 
9 inches. 
June. 
Perennial. 
in 1640. 
No. 1142. 
Silene, see No. 1140. Saxifraga is retained as a 
specific name to this plant on account of its having, 
by old botanists, been arranged with Saxifrages. 
This is a small but pretty plant, that has been 
re-imported from the continent, and attracted the 
notice of cultivators of alpine plants. Although not 
in reality an inhabitant of alpine districts, it suc- 
ceeds admirably under the treatment usually be- 
stowed on that class of plants, that is, pot culture ; 
and it is no insignificant amount of pleasure that 
arises to the cultivator, when he witnesses these 
nurslings thrive under his immediate care. Each, 
in its respective portable habitation, becomes, as 
it were, companionable ; its increased necessities 
give it a constant claim on our attention, which 
adds to the interest we take in its welfare. 
It is, we believe, an accepted truth, that the 
child intrusted to a foster-mother can never be so 
closely bound up in the affections of its natural 
parent, as if, from its birth, that parent had supplied 
its every infant want; and that, through the stages 
of its earliest dawn of reason, each had been bound 
to each in the same vibrating cords of sensation ; 
