2903.
SAXIFRAGA admis.
Involute Alpine Saxifrage.
DECANDRIA Digynia,
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, superior or inferior. Petals
5. Styles persistent. Capsule 2-celled, with
2 beaks, opening by a pore between the beaks.
Spec. Char. Barren shoots trailing. Leaves 3-5-
cleft, with a very broad base, fringed with jointed
hairs ; lobes linear, acute. Stem-leaves few.
Flowers few (2-4). Calyx half inferior, deeply
divided into subulate acute sepals. Petals oblong,
indexed at the sides, 3-nerved; nerves
simple.
Syn. Saxifraga affinis. D. Don in Trans. Linn.
Soc. v. 13. 418. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 2. 275. Hook.
Brit. FI. ed. 3. 200. Lindl. Syn. 69. Mack.
FI. Hibern. pt. 1.68. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. 118.
S. lsevis. Mack. Cat. in Trans. Roy. Irish Acad,
v. 14. 142. (not Donn Cat. Hort. Camb. ed. 5.
107.)
S. hypnoides, var. Ser. in DeCand. Prod. v. 4. 30.
E have much satisfaction in publishing a figure of this
little-known plant, derived from living cultivated specimens
supplied to us by Mr. J. T. Mackay, under whose care they
have now grown for nearly forty years in the College Botanical
Garden at Dublin, perfectly retaining their distinguishing
characters, being only'slightly more luxuriant than wild