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DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 
Dean, and on dry banks at Woolerhaugh-head, Northumberland; Castle 
Head wood, near Keswick. Mr. Winch. Nicholas meadow; Pigwell 
quarry, Warwick. Perry. Rhuddgar farm in Llangeinwen, Anglesey. 
W elsh Bot. Salisbury Craigs and King’s Park, Edinburgh. Lightfoot. 
In the Garlic meadows, near Penn’s Mill, Erdington, Warwickshire. 
On the hedge-bank by the side of the Sutton road, opposite Aston Park 
wall, one mile from Birmingham. E.) P. April—June. 
S. cer'nua. Stem-leaves hand-shaped, on leaf-stalks: stem un¬ 
branched, one-flowered, bulbiferous. 
(j E. Bot. 664. E.)— FI. Lapp. 2. 4— FI. Ban. 22. 
(Plant from three to six inches high. E.) Flowers rather nutant. Stem- 
leaves smooth, more hand-shaped, and the germen more elevated above 
the receptacle than in S. bulbifera. In that plant, too, the stem is 
branched, and bears more than one flower. Linn. Very seldom flower¬ 
ing, but always producing its axillary purple bulbs. Br. FI. Dan. 390. 
and Gun. Norv. 8. 2. represent this species with two flowers, jRoot not 
beaded. Flowers white, rather large. Petals obovate. Germen altogether 
superior. E.) 
(Drooping Bulbous Saxifrage. On mountains in the North. Amongst 
the rocks on the summit of Ben Lawers, Scotland; first found by Mr 
Dickson, and since observed on Craig Calleach, by Prof. Hooker and Mr 
Borrer. E.) P. Aug. 
(S. rivula'ris. Stem-leaves palmate, on long foot-stalks: the upper 
floral-leaf egg-shaped: stem undivided, one or two-flowered: 
germen half inferior. 
Hook. FI. Lond. 213— E. Bot. 2275— FI. Dan. 118. 
Stems decumbent at the base, two or three inches high, scarcely branched 
but at the bottom, bearing from two to five flowers, on stalks that are 
slightly downy and viscid. Lower leaves on long stalks, smooth, fleshy, 
palmate, in three or five rounded lobes, of which the middle one is the 
largest; one or two ovate or spatulate, undivided leaves accompany the 
flowers. Petals white, single-ribbed, rounded, (or reddish,) obovate, not 
much exceeding the calyx, which is half inferior, surrounding the middle 
of the capsule. Root fibrous, somewhat creeping. E. Bot. Anthers cu¬ 
riously reticulated, or dotted. Sm. 
Alpine Brook Saxifrage. Alpine rills, in the Highlands of Scotland. 
Mr. G. Don. Ben Nevis, Mr. Robert Townson. Ben Lawers. Mr. 
Dickson. Loch Rannoch. Mr. Somerville. In abundance on almost 
inaccessible moist rocks on the mountain of Loch-na-gar, in Forfarshire. 
Mr. Drummond and Prof. Hooker. P. June—July. E.) 
S. tridactylFtes. (Leaves wedge-shaped, three or five-cleft: stem 
branched, leafy: stalks single-flowered, alternate: germen 
inferior. E.) 
Dicks. H. S. —( E . Bot. 501. E.)— Curt. 129— Wale. — Sheldr. 24— H. Ox. 
xii. 9. 31— Ger. 499. 3—Pet. 61. 8— Scop. 16. 499 —Blackw. 212. 
(More or less viscid; variable in luxuriance, usually three to five inches 
high. E.) Turns red after flowering. Hairs terminating in globules. 
Stems forked, in some situations trailing. Root-leaves tapering down into 
flat leaf-stalks. Stem-leaves sessile, the upper, and sometimes all above 
