Saxifraga granulata. 
White Saxifrage. 
SAXIFRAGA Limat Gen. PL Dec andri a Digynia. 
Calyx quinquepartitus. Corolla pentapetala. Capfula biroftris, unilocularis. 
SAXIFRAGA 
SAXIFRAGA 
SAXIFRAGA 
SAXIFRAGA 
SAXIFRAGA 
polyfperma. 
Raii Syn. Herbae pentapetala vasculifera. 
granulata foliis caulinis reniformibus lobatis, caule ramofo, radice granulata. Lhn. SjJl. 
Ve get ab. p. 344* FL Suecic. n. 37-* 
foliis radicalibus reniformibus,' obtufe dentatis, cauUnis palmatis. Haller- hift. hclv. n. 976. 
rotundifolia alba. Baubin Pin. 309. 
alba. Gerard emac. 841. 
alba vulgaris. ParKnfon 424- Raii Syn. 3 J4- Budfin FL Angi 159. Oedcr. Flor. 
Ban. 514- 
RADIX. Fibris hujus radicis glomerarim adnafcuntur | 
plurimi bulbilli, extus rubefcentes aut flavef- ^ 
centes, intus albidi, faporis primum adftringen- % 
tis, poftea amari et ingrati. | 
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CAULIS plerumque fimplex, pedalis, fubramofus, teres, | 
hirfutus, prefertim ad bafin, parum foliofus. | 
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FOLTA radicalia petiolis longis, hirfutis, bafi latis infi- | 
dentia, reniformia, nirfutula, lobata, lobis ob- | 
tufis ; caulina ficut adfcendunt petiolis breviori- | 
bus gaudent donec tandem felfilia fiunt, lobi $ 
foliorum acutiora evadunt, apicibus rufefcenti- | 
bus. $ 
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CALYX’- Perianthium quinquepartitum, hirfutulum, $ 
fubvifcidum, laciniis ovato-acutis apice rufis, | 
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COROLLA: Petala quinque alba, patentia, apice | 
rotundata, bafi anguftiora et venis flaveicentibus ^ 
notata, Jig. 2. | 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem fubulata ; Anther® : 
ovatae, compreflie, infidentes, flavae, biloculares, ;; 
quorum quinque Pollen primum emittunt, hinc • ■ 
longiores, fig. 3, 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen fufirotundum, inferum, glandu- 
la faturateviridi cindfum, fig. 7; Styli duo 
Staminibus breviores, incurvati, fig. 5 ; Stigma 
concavum, fig. 5, demum expandens, fig. 6. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula fubovata, biroftris, bilocu- 
laris, pallide fufca, fig. 8. 
SEMINA numerofa, minutiffima, nigra, fig. 9. 
ROOT. To the fibres of the root of this plant, adhere 
in clufters a number of fmall bulbs, externally 
red or yellowifti, internally white, of a tafte at 
firft aftringent, afterwards bitter and difagreeable. 
STALK generally fimple, about a foot high, a little 
branched, round, hirfute particularly at bottom, 
furniftied with but few leaves. 
LEAVES which grows next the root placed on long hairy 
foot-ftalks with a broad bafe, kidney-fhaped, 
flightly hairy, divided into obtufe lobes, thofe 
of the fialk, as they afcend, are furniftied with 
fliorter foot-ftalks, ’till they gradually become 
feflile, the lobes more acute, and the tips of 
a reddilh colour. 
CALYX: a Perianthium divided into five fegments, 
hirlute and fomewhat vifcid, the laciniae of an 
oval pointed fhape, and red at the tips, fig. 1. 
COROLLA : five Petals, white, fpreading, round at top, 
at bottom narrower, and ftriped with yellowifti 
veins, fig. 2. 
STAMINA : ten Filaments tapering ; Anther.® oval, 
flat, fitting on the Filaments, yellow, bilocu- 
lar, five of them filed the Pollen firft, hence 
they become longer than the others, fig. 3, 4. 
PISTILLUM : Germen roundifti, placed below the 
Calyx, furrounded by a gland of a deep green 
colour, fig. 7 ; Styles, two, fhorter than the 
Stamina, bending inward, fig. 5 ; Stigma hol- 
low, fig. 5, finally expanding, fig. 6 . 
SEED-VESSEL: a Capsule of a fhape fomewhat oval, 
and pale brown colour, having two beaks or 
horns, and two cavities, fig. 8 
I SEEDS numerous, very minute, and black, fig. 9. 
THE Root of this fpecies of Saxifrage , by means of which it is chiefly propagated, affords the young Botanift a 
very good example of the Radix granulata, being compofed of a number of little grains or bulbs, connected together 
in clufters by the fibres ; fiome of thefe bulbs are folid and entire, not unaptly refembling in fhape the bulbs of Onions ; 
others fpread open at top, and fccm to be compofed of a number of fquamulte or lefler bulbs, thefe are often of a bright 
red colour : the upper part of the ftalk, the foot-ftalks of the flowers, and calyx, are covered with a kind of hairs,, 
which terminate in a vifcid globule, and which feem to accompany moft of the plants of this Genus. The two Styles, 
which at firft are fliort, with a hollow Stigma, fig. 5, quickly grow much longer ; the Stigmata fpread open, fo that 
they refemble in forne degree a pair of tea-tongs, fig. 6. 
This plant does not occur fo frequently with us as many others : according to Mr. Hudson, it is common about 
JVandpvoorth ; I have frequently gathered it in the fields about Peck ham, and lately have found it in great abundance 
much nearer town, viz. in the fields called Lock-fields , on the right hand fide of Kent-fireet Road, at the back, of, and 
contiguous to Mr. Driver’s Nurfery Gardens : it delights to grow in dry paftures which have a gravelly bottom ; 
flowers in May, and produces its feeds in the- month following. When double, it ferves, with many other 
Britifti plants, to ornament the gardens of the curious. 
Like many other plants, this leems to owe what little importance it has in medicine to the doctrine of fignaturcs, 
which has moft unphilofophically introduced a number of plants into our Materia Medica. As the root bore fo great 
a refemblance to little ftones, it was concluded it muft be efficacious in the ftone and gravel, for which difeafes it has 
been recommended, but there are no accounts of its fuccefs to be depended on. If it does poflefs any medical virtue, 
it fliould appear from the tafte of the root to’ be that of an aftringent. , 
