528 DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 
or two flowers. Woodw. ( Flower-stalks three to five inches long. Cal. 
closely reflexed. Pet. three-ribbed, white, with two yellow spots at the 
base. E.) 
Mr. Dawson Turner remarks the striking difference in this plant occa¬ 
sioned by place of growth. Specimens gathered in a valley near Kes¬ 
wick were nearly a foot high, with leaves about an inch long, and 
panicled stems of many flowers, while those on the very summit of 
Snowdon did not rise to an inch in height, and were in all parts propor- 
tionably small, except the flower, which was single, and considerably 
larger than those of the valley. Bot. Guide. E.) 
Starry Saxifrage. Moist rocks, and by the rills of Snowdon, Carnedd- 
Llewellyn, Cader Idris, &c. In the north of England, and in Scotland. 
About Buckbarrow Well, Long-sledale, Yorkshire. Curtis. Mountains 
in Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland. Mr. Woodward. Be¬ 
tween Patterdale and Winandermere. Stokes. On Coniston Fells, with 
S. aizoides and hypnoides. Mr. Jackson. On the very summit of Snowdon. 
Mr. Aikin. (On Ben Lawers, Lomond, and in Glen Crow. On the 
Styehead; on Mell fell, and in Ashness gill, near Barrow. Mr. Winch. 
On the Logan rock, Cornwall. Dr. Forbes. Considered by Prof. 
Hooker to be the most common of our alpine Saxifrages. E.) 
P. June—July. 
S. niva'lis. Leaves egg-shaped, scolloped, nearly sessile: stem leafless, 
(terminating in a dense cluster of few flowers: calyx expand¬ 
ing. E.) 
Dicks. II. S. — (E. Bot. 440. E.)— FI. Dan. 28—Light/. 12. at p. 221—Ray 
16. 1. at p. 358— Pink. 222. 5— FI. Lapp. 2. 5 and 6. 
(A stouter plant than the last, but about the same height. Leaves subco- 
riaceous, glabrous above. Petals externally reddish. Hook., with two 
greenish spots on the inner side. E.) Leaves blunt, lying on the ground. 
Stem somewhat hairy. Petals blunt, white. Subject to remarkable 
variations, in appearance as well as size. Sometimes it is exceedingly 
small, with heart-shaped leaves, flowers collected into a single head, and 
a strap-shaped leaf at the base. Sometimes it produces only a single flower 
on a stalk, or two of these rise from one root. At others it bears a num¬ 
ber of flowers at the top of the stalk, on fruit-stalks, forming an umbel, 
or it appears twice as large, with a spike composed of smaller ones as 
figured in Ray. But in all these states it is easily distinguishable by its 
leaves, reddish underneath, and purplish pistils. I have observed the 
same plant flower thrice in one summer. Griff. 
(Clustered Alpine Saxifrage. E.) Summits of the higher mountains 
of Wales and Scotland. Glyder Vawr, near Snowdon. Pennant. On 
Ben Lomond and on Malghyrdy. Mr. Don. (On Ben Teskerney, Craig 
Cailleach, and Ben Lawers. Mr. Brown. E.) P. April—Oct. 
S. umbro'sa. Leaves egg-shaped, scolloped and cartilaginous at the 
edge, tapering into dilated foot-stalks: stem leafless: flowers in 
a panicle. 
{E. Bot. 663. E.)— Mill. 141. 2—Park. 738, Jig. 2d.—Par. 233. 5. 
(. Leaves large, smooth, all radical, crowded. Scape six to twelve inches 
high, slender, reddish and pubescent. Cal. reflexed. E.) Blossom 
whitish, with elegant crimson dots, beautiful when moderately magnified. 
(In E. Bot. pi. 2322 is a figure greatly resembling our plant, and also 
found on the mountains of Ireland, said to be S . hirsuta of Linnaeus, and 
