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D EC A N D R I A Dtgynia.
G e n . C h a r . Cal. 4 or 5-cleft, coloured. Cor. none,
Capfule with 2 beaks, 1 cell, and many feeds.
S p e c . C h a r . Leaves oppofite.'
S y n . Chryfofplenium oppofitifoliurn. L in n . Sp. PI,
569. H u d f. 178. W ith . 402. S ib th . 137. Curt.
L o n d . fa fc . 1 . t. 27.
Saxifraga aurea. R a il Syn. 158.
JLN our firft volume, /. 54, the other more rare fpeciesof this
pretty genus is figured and defcribed. In that the leaves are
alternate, herb and flowers more deeply coloured and more
ftriking in appearance. Notwithflanding the doubts of Linnaeus
they feem unqueftionably diftindf, and the different fixations
of the leaves afford an elegant and decifive mark of dif-
tin&ion.
Chryfofplenium oppofitifoliurn grows like the former about the
margins of clear fprings under the fhade of trees or rocks,
forming broad patches of a pale yellowifh green hue. Root
perennial, of fimple fibres fpringing from the joints of the procumbent
part of the ftem. Leaves all oppofite, on footflalks,
inclining to heart-fhaped, crenate, fucculent, clothed with a
few hairs. Flowers in a terminal leafy corymbus, pale yellow»
mofily four-cleft. Their notched glandular ring, which fur-
rounds the bafe of the germen, is inferted between that part
and the ftamina, and is therefore (as Mr. Curtis remarks) probably
a nectary, or at lead it cannot be called a receptacle.
The feeds are numerous, round and blackifh.