DECANDRIA. D1GYNIA. Saxifraga. 
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C. oppositifo'lium. Leaves opposite. 
Curt. 138— (E. Bot. 490. E.)— FI. Dan. 365— Dod. 316. 2— Lob. Obs. 336. 
1 —Ger. Em. 841. 2— Park. 425. 2— H. Ox. xii. 8. 7—Pet. 6. 9. 
Suckers from the base of the stem, covered with leaves, creeping. Stem - 
leaves two or three pair, circular, with the base lopped on each side, 
indistinctly and irregularly notched. Woodw. Root-leaves longer than 
the leaf-stalks. Stamens sometimes only six or seven. Flowers bright 
yellow. Linnaeus remarks, that this and the preceding species are very 
closely allied; but they may at once be distinguished by the very different 
lengths of their respective root-leaves. {Stem two to four inches high, 
somewhat more branched, and the whole plant paler than in the preceding. 
Flowers mostly four-cleft, and octandrous. The size of this plant varies 
greatly. The Editor gathered a very diminutive variety on the Winnets, 
near Castleton. E.) 
Oppostte-leaved Sen-green. Golden Saxifrage. Irish: Gloris. 
Welsh: Eglyn cyferbynddail. E.) Moist shady places, sides of boggy 
rivulets, common. Copse on Polingland Heath, near Norwich. Mr. 
Pitchford. Moist heaths about Manchester. Mr. Caley. (About Gatea- 
cre, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Common about the lanes and stream¬ 
lets near Painswick. Mr. 0.> Roberts. In rocky hollow lanes about 
Selborne, Hants. White’s Nat. Hist. In similar situations as the former 
in Scotland. Greville. E.) P. April—May. 
SAXIF'RAGA. # Calyx five-toothed: Bloss . five petals : Caps . 
beneath, two-beaked, two-celled, many-seeded, opening 
between the styles.f 
(In our arrangement of the species of this elegant, though versatile and 
perplexing tribe of plants, we have endeavoured to combine the 
researches of Smith, Don, (Linn. Tr. vol. 13,) Hooker, and others; ven¬ 
turing, however, to omit several whose specific distinctions appear 
problematical; and even now including some few which in the opinion 
of Prof. Hooker might with propriety be reduced to varieties, possibly 
of either S. ccespitosa , or the foreign geranioides. E.) 
(1) Leaves undivided ; stem nearly leafless. 
S. STELLAhtis. Leaves serrated, elliptic-wedge-shaped: stem naked, 
branched : petals spear-shaped, two spots upon each: ‘(panicle 
corymbose, of few flowers. 
E. Bot. 167. E .)—Jacq. Col. i. 13— FI. Dan. 23— FI. Lapp. 2. 3— Scop. 13. 
n. 492. at p. 290 —Pluk. 58. 2; lb. 222. 4— II. Ox. xii. 9. 13— J. B. iii. 
708. 1. 
Leaves in one or more star-like tufts from each root, wedge-shaped, entire 
at the base, rather indented at the top, slightly hairy, (often purplish 
beneath, E.) Stem , one from each tuft. Branches , each having at its 
base a leaf, spear-shaped, entire, or cloven into three, and bearing one 
* (From sasum, a rock, tindfrango, to break; as growing in the fissures of rocks : or, 
by some supposed to refer to its virtues as a lithontriptic. E.) 
t (For a curious instance of the economy of Nature in this family of plauts, see the 
Generic description, vol. 1. p. 238. E.) 
