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many, from the bosom of the leaves, of various lengths, the lower ones 
longest, generally with one flower. Flower-leaves two on each fruit-stalk. 
Calyx nearly as long as the blossom. Petals blunt, yellow, spotted 
with orange. Woodw. {Fruit-stalks bearing from three to six flowers, 
much smaller than those of S. hirculus ; a plant of very different habit. 
(Haller, Jacquin, Afzelius, and some British Botanists, have considered 
S. autumnalis of Linnaeus to be no other than dwarf specimens, with 
leaves less obviously fringed, of S. aizoides; but Smith insists that it is 
distinct from either, though what was really intended still remains in 
some obscurity. E.) 
Yellow Mountain Saxifrage. S. autumnalis. Huds. Lightf. With. 
Ed. ii. (Frequent among the northern mountains. E.) Ingleborough 
Hill, Yorkshire, and in Westmoreland. Beeston Castle, Cheshire; 
Long-Sledale and Whitsell Gill, near Askrig, Yorkshire. Curtis. In Fur¬ 
ness Fells, near the top of a high mountain called the Old Man, in moist 
places. Mr. Atkinson. (Near Widdy Bank, on Teesdale Forest; rocks 
by the Irthing at Wardrew, Northumberland; Ashness Gill, Cumber¬ 
land. Mr. Winch. With S. oppositifolia on calcareous mountains of Leitrim 
and Sligo. Mr. Murphy. E.) P. July—Aug. 
(3) Leaves lobed; stem upright. 
S. GRANULA f TA. (Radical leaves kidney-shaped, on long foot-stalks, 
obtusely lobed: cauline ones nearly sessile, acutely lobed: stem 
panicled: root granulated. E.)* 
Dicks. If. S. —(j E. Bot. 500. E.)— Kniph. 1— Curt. — FI. Dan. 514— Mill. 
III. — Woodv. 232— Ludw. 120— Wale. — Matth. 978 —Fuchs. 747— J. B. 
iii.— Dod. 316. 1— Lob. Obs. 335. 2 — Ger. Em. 841. 1— Park. 424. 1 and 
2 — II. Ox. xii. 9. 23 — Ger. 693. 1— Trag. 525— Lonic. i. 220. 1— Blackw. 
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Branches without leaves. Cup a little hairy. Blossoms white, large. 
(Petals twice the length of the calyx, veined. Stem solitary, upright, 
four to eight inches high, clothed with hairs, hollow, viscid. Leaves 
palmate notched, sometimes extending in a long flattened leaf-stalk, 
about an inch wide. Capsule half inferior. Stigmas not always downy, 
as described in E. Bot. neither is the plant generally tinged with a red¬ 
dish hue, as there represented. E.) 
(Varieties occur near Coventry with very large petals, and also very nar¬ 
row ; so that they might even be taken for distinct species. Bree in Purt. 
Found with a double Jlower at Mitcham, Surry, by Professor Martyn; 
and often thus cultivated in gardens. E.) 
White Saxifrage. (Tuberous-rooted Saxifrage. Welsh: Llyf- 
enwy; Tormaengwyn; Clor y brain. E.) Dry meadows and pastures. 
Near Wandsworth. Beverey, near Worcester. Stokes. Plentiful in a 
field below Malham Cove, Yorkshire. Wood behind Agecroft Hall, 
and many other places about Manchester. Mr. Caley. (In Scott’s Wood 
* (It has been conjectured that these granulations are partly destined to supply nutri¬ 
ment in arid situations where the plant must otherwise perish. Mr. Thomson assures us 
that on examining a single bulb, we shall find that it is composed of slightly curved 
granular scales, covered with two coats, and enclosing the plantule, which, on veg elating, 
bursts the coat and shoots up between the scales. E.) 
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