534 DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 
made too acute in E. Bot. t. 455. Leaves of the flowering stems few, 
scattered, rather more acute, either undivided or three-cleft, diminishing 
into bracteas. A few of the very lowest leaves, on the radical tufts, are 
also undivided. Steins solitary, erect, round, rather hairy and viscid, 
slightly leafy; in a only two or three inches high, and bearing one to two, 
very rarely three Jlowers ; in (3 often a span in height, corymbose, with 
five or six. A root brought from Brandon mountain, and rendered luxu¬ 
riant by culture, bore nine flowers. The calyx of this species, in every 
state, is half inferior; its segments broad, obtuse, pointless, slightly 
fringed, glandular, but scarcely hairy, on the surface. Germen much 
more hairy, hemispherical. Pet. orbicular, or obovate, rounded, obtuse, 
entire, white, with a central green rib, sending off two curved lateral 
ones about the middle none of them quite reaching to the summit. Stig¬ 
mas downy. 
Tufted Alpine Saxifrage, a. S. ccespitosa. Linn. Willd. FI. Brit. Don. 
S» grcenlandica. Linn. Gunn. S. tridactylites grcenlandica, &c. Dill. Elth. 
(3. S. decipiens. Ehrh. Beitr. Sternb. S. ccespitosa. Oed. Gunn. S.petrcea. 
With. S. palmata. Fi. Brit. With. Ed. 6. 
On the loftiest mountains of Wales and Ireland. 
a. On the rocks of Twl du, in Cwm Id well. North Wales. Mr. Griffith. 
On the lofty summit of Brandon mountain, county of Kerry. Mr. J. T. 
Mackay. 
(3. On the rocks of Cwm Id well, but in more accessible places. Mr. Griffith. 
On the Galty mountains, Tipperary. Mr. J. T. Mackay. 
P. May—June. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(S. hirta. E. Bot. 2291, is suspected to be merely a var. of this species. “ It 
has the habit of the larger var. of S. ccespitosa, nor is it always more 
hairy.” Sm. E.) 
(Prof. Hooker considers S. elongella of Don and Smith, E. Bot. 2277, as 
likewise referrible to S. ccespitosa, (not to S. hypnoides, as inadvertently 
stated in Eng. FI.) and remarks on its supposed peculiarity of inflo¬ 
rescence, “ a terminal, solitary, simple, single-flowered stalk ,”—“ some 
of my specimens frcm the discoverer himself, Mr. Don, have two or even 
three flowers upon the same stalk.” In FI. Scot, we also find Icetevirens 
of Mr. Don arranged under the same comprehensive species. E.) 
S. hypnoi'des. (Radical leaves three or five-cleft, those of the long 
procumbent shoots undivided: all bristle-pointed and fringed: 
segments of the calyx ovate: pointed petals obovate: stigmas 
nearly smooth. 
E. Bot. 454. foliage insiifficient—Freeman Ic. t. 2— FI. Dan. 348— Lapeyr. 
Pyren. t. 32— H. Ox. xii. 9. 26— Pluk. Phyt. t. 57. f. 7. 
Forms dense, elastic tufts, of a light and pleasant green. Stem generally 
solitary, slightly leafy, four or five inches high, terminating in a corym¬ 
bose panicle, of from three to five white flowers, whose stalks are a little 
viscid and gladular, as well as the scattered awl-shaped bracteas. Radi¬ 
cal and lower stem-leaves linear, channelled, fringed at the base; ter¬ 
minating in three, rarely five, lanceolate, spreading, smooth, bristle- 
pointed lobes ; those on the trailing shoots are almost universally 
undivided, taper-pointed, with a more conspicuous bristle, and are often 
accompanied by a pale axillary, oblong bud. Calyx half inferior, with 
broad, acute, pointed, three-ribbed segments. Pet. broadly obovate, flat. 
