DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 533 
the first branches, spear-shaped and opposite. Cup, mouth with five 
egg-shaped clefts. Petals white, egg-shaped, but little longer than the 
segments of the calyx. 
In very dry situations the plant is found extremely diminutive, with stems 
unbranched, and all the leaves entire. 
Rue-leaved Saxifrage. Rue Whitlow-grass. (Welsh: Toermaen 
tribys. E.) Walls, roofs, and amongst rubbish. Very common in Cra¬ 
ven, Yorkshire, but rare in Lancashire. Mr. Caley. (Wall top near the 
mill below the Vicarage, Painswick. Mr. O. Roberts. On walls at 
Brookham, Surry ; at Matlock; Ormathwaite and Keswick. Mr. Winch. 
Kings Park, Edinburgh. Greville. In the walks at Hatton, near ShifF- 
nal, Shropshire. On the Winnets, near Castleton, Derbyshire. On walls 
and rocks at Cheddar, Somersetshire. On gravel-walks close to Norton 
Hall, near Daventry, the seat of B. Botfield, Esq. E.) 
A. April—May.* 
(S. muscoPdes. Leaves linear, obtuse, smooth, triple-ribbed, undi¬ 
vided, or with two small lateral lobes: flowers few, corymbose: 
petals nearly linear : calyx almost naked. 
Hall. Opusc. t. l.f. 1— Seg. Veron. v. 1 . t. 9.f 4. 
Herb composed of many dense, crowded, leafy tufts. Leaves crowded, 
deep green, smooth on both sides, slightly fringed occasionally. Flower¬ 
ing branches terminal, solitary, erect, somewhat downy and viscid, bear¬ 
ing two or three undivided leaves, and terminating in two, three, or 
four, corymbose, downy, bracteated, single-flowered stalks. Germen 
hemispherical, downy and viscid. Cal. superior, obtuse. Pet. almost 
linear, pale yellow, obtuse, slightly cloven, triple-ribbed, rather longer 
than the calyx. 
Mossy Alpine Saxifrage. S. muscoides. Wulf. in Jacq. Misc. v. 2. 
123. Willd. Sp. PI. Don. in Linn. Tr. v. 13. 437. S. ceespitosa. Huds. 
and With. Ed. ii.; not of Linn. S.pyrenaica. Haller. S. moschata. With. 
Ed. 6. Mountains above Ambleside, Westmoreland; Hudson: con¬ 
firmed by specimens sent from thence: Mr. D. Don: and cultivated in 
Kew garden, in 1781, as the true plant of Hudson. 
P. May. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(S. CjEspito'sa. Radical leaves crowded, three or five-cleft, obtuse, 
veiny, fringed; lowermost undivided: flowers from one to five or 
more: germen half inferior, hairy: calyx smoother, obtuse: 
petals rounded, triple-ribbed. 
a. E. Bot. 794 —Gunn. Norv. v. 2. t. 7. f 1— Dill. Elth. t. 253. /. 329. 
a. (3. Sternb. Saxif. t. 23— FI. Dan. t. 71.— Gunn. Norv. v. 2. t. 7.f 3. 4— E. 
Bot. 455. 
Herb densely tufted, very variable in luxuriance, number of flowers, and 
degree of hairiness. Radical leaves numerous, more or less crowded, 
fringed with soft glutinous hairs, such as are generally likewise dispersed 
over both surfaces; their lower half almost linear, strongly ribbed; 
upper deeply divided into three or five oblong, obtuse, pointless segments. 
* (Gerard remarks : “ As touching the qualitie hereof, we have nothing to set riowne ; 
onely it hath been taken to heale the disease of the nailes called a Whitlowe, whereof it 
tooke his name, as also Naile-wuort.” 
