2892.
SAXIFRAGA elegans.
Small round-leaved Saxifrage,
DE CA NDRIA Digynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, superior or inferior.
Petals 5. Styles persistent. Capsule 2-celled,
with two beaks, opening by a pore between the beaks.
Spec. Char. Leaves round, smooth, shining, acutely
serrate. Petioles broad, flat above, convex beneath.
Panicle racemose. Calyx inferior, reflexed.
Filaments enlarged upwards.
Syn. Saxifraga elegans. Mack, in Reich. Iconog.
Botan. cent. 7. 12. t. 625. FI. Hibern. pt. 1. 65.
Bab. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 8. 323. Man. Br.
Bot. 116. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 2. 364.
S Geum b. Hook. Br. FI. ed. 5. 127.
Robertsonia Geum (3. elegans. Lindl. Syn. 70.
X HIS highly elegant plant is probably less local than has
been hitherto supposed. Mr. Mackay discovered it in 1805,
“ on a rock on the summit of Turk mountain near Killarney,”
and still believes it to be confined to that spot. In m i ' l
found it upon that mountain, but after a diligent search could
not detect it in more than one spot under, not upon, a rock.
In the same year I also gathered it on Connor Hill near
Dingle, and in 1843 observed what I believe to be the same
plant, but without flowers, by the Galway river near to the old
road from Killarney to Kenmare.
The accompanying figure is drawn from specimens sent
from the College Botanical Garden at Dublin by Mr. Mackay,
and represents the constant appearance of the cultivated plant.