Chryfofplemum Oppofitifolium. Common Golden Saxifi age. 
CHRYSOSPLENIUM Lirmai Cm. PI. Decandsia Dibynia. 
Cal. 4-f. 5-fidus, coloratus. Car. o. Caps. 2-roftris, i lo- 
cularis, polyfperma. 
RaiiSyn.Gen. 5. Herbie flore imperfecto seu stamineo vel apet alo. 
potius. 
CHRYSOSPLENIUM oppofitifolium foliis oppofitis. Lin. Syfi. Vegetal, p. 342. Sp. Pl. 569. 
CHRYSOSPLENIUM foliis conjugatis. Haller. Hljl. No. 1549. 
SAXIFRAGA rotundifolia aurea. Bauhin. pin. p. 309. 
SAXIFRAGA aurea. Ger. emac. 841. Parkinfon 425. Paii Syn. 158. Golden Saxifrage. 
Hudfon FI. Angi. p. 156. 
Oeder FI. Dan. ic. 365. 
Lightfoot FI. Scot, p . 220. 
RADICES perennes, fibrofze, capillares. 
CAULES bafi repentes, quadrati, tenerrimi, ere&i, 
palmares et ultra, pilis raris hirfuti ; ramofi, 
fuperne dichotomi. 
FOLIA oppofita, connata, petiolata, patentia, fubro- 
tunda, pilis raris albidis hirfuta, dentato- 
crenata, fubcarnofa, e flavo virefeentia, fubtus 
albida, fuprema profundius crenata. 
FLORES flavi, fefliles, fummis ramis infidentes, co- 
rymbofi, faftigiati. 
CALYX: Perianthium quadripartitum, rarius quin- 
quepartitum, patens, flavum, perfiftens ; la- 
ciniis ovatis, fubasqualibus, fig. 1 , 2. 
COROLLA nulla. 
STAMINA : Filamento odo, (in fupremo flore de- 
cem aliquando obfervantur,) fubulata, ereda, 
longitudine fere calycis : Anthers didyma;, 
fubrotundze, flava;, fg. 3, 4. 
NECTARIUM fquamula crenulata germen cingens, 
fig' 5 - 
PISTILLUM : Germen inferum, definensin Stylos 
duos, fubulatos, longitudine flaminum : Stig- 
mata obtufa, fig. 6. 
PERICARPIUM : Capsula biroftris, bipartita, uni- 
locularis, bivalvis, calyce viridi cinda. 
SEMINA plurima, minuta, aurantiaca. 
* ROOTS fibrous, capillary, and perennial. 
STALKS creeping at bottom, fquare, very tender, 
upright, about four inches in height, befet 
with a few ftiffifh hairs, branched, and fork- 
ed at top. 
LEAVES oppofite, connate, flanding on foot-ftalks, 
fpreading, of a roundifh figure, befet with a 
few white ftiffifli hairs, indented or crenated 
at the edges, fomewhat flefliy, of a yellowifh 
green colour, but whitifh underneath ; the 
uppermoft leaves more deeply notched. 
FLOWERS yellow, feflile, fitting on the tops of the 
branches, forming a corymbus perfedly flat 
at top. 
CALYX : a Perianthium divided into four fegments, 
feldom into five, fpreading, of a yellow colour, 
and continuing; the fegments ovate, and 
nearly equal, fig. 1, 2. 
COROLLA wanting. 
STAMINA: eight Filaments, (in the top flower 
ten are fometimes obfervable,) tapering, up- 
right, almoft the length of the calyx : An- 
thers double, roundifh, and yellow, _/%•. 3, 4. 
NECTARY a fcale with a crenated edge, furrounding 
the germen, fig. 5. 
PISTILLUM : Germen placed below the calyx, end- 
ing in two tapering Styles, the length of 
the Stamina : Stigmata blunt, fig. 6. 
SEED-VESSEL; a Capsule having two beaks or 
horns, dividing in the middle, of one cavity, 
and two valves, furrounded by a green Calyx. 
SEEDS numerous, minute, of an orange colour. 
THE antient botanifts fhewed no fmall botanic difeernment in confidering this plant as a Saxifraga ; and al- 
though in flridl propriety it may be neceffary to form a different genus of it, yet its affinity muft be con- 
fefled to be very great. 
The part which Linnjeus calls the Receptaculum angulatum , appears to be more properly a kind of NeSlarium ; 
the Stamina proceed from beneath, not out of it. 
As the terminal flower in this plant is rarely divided into more than four fegments, and has only eight 
Stamina, it would perhaps be more proper to place it in the clafs Octandria. 
It grows in great abundance in the boggy part of Charlton Wood ; and flowers in April. The feeds ripen 
in May. 
Authors are filent as to its ufeful or noxious qualities. 
