536 DECANDRIA. DIGYNIA. Sclekanthus 
ners, but most crowded at their base, stalked, finely downy and gluti¬ 
nous, kidney-shaped, deeply divided into three principal lobes, of which 
the central one is often three-cleft, the lateral ones more deeply and 
unequally three-lobed, giving the whole leaf, though simple, a pedate 
figure. Lobes variable in breadth on different plants. Foot-stalks thrice 
the length of the leaves, bordered, ribbed, purplish, a little hairy. Stems 
a span high, solitary from the leafy crown of each annual shoot, erect, 
round, slightly leafy, alternately branched, panicled at the top; their 
leaves variously divided, often doubly three-cleft, the uppermost undi¬ 
vided. Panicles variously corymbose or cymose, with downy glutinous 
stalks, and narrow linear hracteas ; principal one of ten or twelve Jlowers , 
one of which is central, the others of fewer. FL white, small in propor¬ 
tion to the size of the plant, erect. Cal. almost entirely superior; its 
segments erect, acute, three-ribbed, downy and viscid like the germen , 
which they much exceed in length, but the ripe capsule almost equals 
them in that respect. Styles finally much longer than the calyx, with 
nearly smooth stigmas. Caps, globose. Lobes of the young and narrower 
leaves more acute, and often bristle-pointed. 
(Pedatifid Saxifrage. S. quinquefida. Donn Cant. On the mountains 
of Clova, Angus-shire. Mr. G. Don. P. May—Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
SCLERAN'THUS* Cal. one leaf: Bloss. none: Seed one 
(perfect, and one abortive, E.) enclosed in the cup. 
S. an'nuus. (Segments of the calyx erect after flowering: leaves 
linear subulate: stems slightly pubescent. E.) 
E. Bot. 351— FI. Dan. 504 —Trag. 393—Lome*, i. 169. 1— Dod. 115. 1— 
Ger. Em. 566. 4— Park. 447. 7— Ger - 452. 2— Pet. 9. 6. 
Plant three to five inches high, of rather glaucous green; stems slender, 
filiform, leafy, branched upwards, several from the same root, the lateral 
ones more or less decumbent. Leaves with a tender curve, membranous 
at the base. Flowers small, green, crowded in axillary clusters; calyx 
urceolate, ribbed, with five ovate-lanceolate teeth, white and membra¬ 
nous at the edge, according to Hooker spreading when in flower, erect 
when in fruit. Stamens unequal in length, often fewer than ten, more 
frequently eight. 
(Yar. 2. Perennis. S. perennis of authors. S. annuus. var. /3. Grev. to which 
probably S. polycarpos of Lightfoot may be nearly allied. Membranous 
border of the calyx segments broader and more conspicuous : leaves more 
decidedly incurved. E.) 
E. Bot. 352— Kniph. 10 —Ray 5. 1. at p. 160— J. B. iii. 378. 1— H. Ox. v. 
29*. row 1. /. 2—Ger. 453—Ger. Em. 567. 5— Park. 427. 2—Pet. 9. 7— 
FI. Dan. 563— Vaill. 1. 5. 
Having bestowed every attention to a point on which high authorities differ, 
from an examination of various specimens we cannot but admit that 
the general appearance of what have hitherto been deemed two distinct 
species exhibits no obvious difference, unless it be in the broader and 
more conspicuous white membranous margin of the calyx segments of 
the latter plant, and even this appearance may be observed varying in 
degree, in both. We therefore concur with Professor Hooker in the 
* (From axXypog, hard, and avOog, a flower : from the dry, scariose texture of the calyx. E.) 
