DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Saxifraga. 
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triple-ribbed, sometimes tinged with red before expansion; the middle rib 
occasionally branched near the tip. Stigmas spatulate, scarcely downy. 
Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
Moss Saxifrage. Ladies* Cushion. Rocksand high mountains; like¬ 
wise abundant on limestone rocks, walls, and roofs, in less elevated 
situations. Snowdon, and other mountains in Wales, Westmoreland, 
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Malham Cove, Cheddar Rocks. About Settle. 
Curtis. Dovedale, Derbyshire, and the northern counties. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Middleton Dale, "Derbyshire. Mr. Whately. (Salisbury Craigs, 
Edinburgh. Mr. Winch. E.) P. May—July.* 
(S. af'finis. Radical leaves five-cleft; those of the trailing shoots 
mostly three-cleft: lobes linear, pointed: segments of the calyx 
awl-shaped, pointed, recurved: petals oblong, indexed at the 
edges. 
Involute Alpine Saxifrage. Very distinct from every British species; 
most resembling S. hirta; according to Mr. Don, who, in Linn. Tr. v. 
13, describes this plant as having been found by Mr. J. T. Mackay on 
the top of Brandon mountain, county of Kerry. 
P. May—June. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(S. platypet'ala. Radical leaves five-cleft; those of the trailing 
shoots three-cleft: lobes bristle-pointed: segments of the calyx 
ovate, pointed, erect: petals nearly orbicular, flat, with many 
lateral veins. 
E. Bot. 227 6. 
Much like the last, with many procumbent, leafy, hairy shoots, but leaves 
less lengthened out in their lower part, and all their segments terminate 
in strong, pale, somewhat cartilaginous, bristly points. Panicle rather 
racemose, of four or five large Jlowers, on glandular, viscid, bracteated 
stalks. Segments of the calyx short, ovate, erect, conspicuously pointed ; 
the base most glandular. Germen broad and short. Pet. thrice the 
length of the calx, white, with a red stain in the bud, broadly obovate, 
or almost orbicular, spreading, flat, entire, with three principal ribs 
united at their base, the two outermost sending forth many spreading 
short veins. Upper half of the germen hemispherical. Styles short. 
Stigmas spatulate, finely downy on the upper side. 
Broad-petalled Saxifrage. On Snowdon. Mr. D. Turner. On the 
Clova Mountains, Angus-shire. Mr. G. Don. (West side of Helvellyn. 
Mr. Winch. E.) June—Sm. Eng. FI. 
(Considered by Prof. Hooker as a var. of S. hypnoides , or possibly of S. coes- 
pitosa. E.) 
(S. pedatif'ida. Radical leaves kidney-shaped, divided in a pedate 
manner into seven lobes: panicle cymose, level-topped, many- 
flowered: calyx superior, with linear-lanceolate segments, as 
long as the capsule. 
E. Bot. 2278. 
Increasing by runners, each terminating in a leafy flowering tuft, from 
which fresh runners are produced. Leaves numerous on the young run- 
* Cultivated in gardens as an edging for the parterre. 
