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S A X I F R A G A umbrofa.
London Pride, or None -Jo - p retty.
E E C A N D R I A Digynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. five-cleft. P eta ls five. Cap/, with
two beaks, one cell, and many fe e d s.
Spec. Char. Leaves obovate, blanti(h, with a cartilaginous
notched margin. Stem naked, panicled.
Capfule fuperior.
Syn. Saxifraga umbrofa. L in n . S p . P I. 574. Sm.
F I. B r il. 450. W ith . 403. H u ll. 92.
Geum folio fubrotundo minori, piflillo floris rubro.
M agnol. H o rt. 88. t. 14. (majori) M ill. lc . t. 141.
f . z . D ill, in R a il Syn. 355.
I t is Angular that this plant fliould have been omitted by
Mr. Hudfon. The authorities mentioned by Dillenius for
its growing on feveral mountains in Ireland are indubitable;
and to them may be added that of Mr. Lambert, who gathered
this Saxifrage on Croagh Patrick in the County of Mayo,
a conical hill obferved by Mr, Kirwan to rife 2666 feet above
the neighbouring ocean. Sir T. Frankland and Dr. White
have gathered it in Thorp Arch woods, Yorkfhire. Our fpe-
cimen grew in a truly wild fituation, on a rocky bank near a
rivulet, half a mile weft of Mrs. Fofter’s houfe in Hefleton
"Gill, betwixt Arneliffe and Horton in Craven, and was communicated
by Mr. W. Bingley. It is perennial, flowering in
July; and is well known in gardens, particularly for thriving
in London better than moft plants, where it flowers earlier
than on its native mountains.
The leaves are all radical, growing in a rofe-like form, on
flat foot-ftalks, obovate, quite fmooth, with a hard whitifli
crenate edge, and often purple beneath. Stalk a fpan high,
erect, panicled, many-flowered, red, hairy, with a few fmall
alternate brafteas. Flowers upright. Calyx at length reflexed.
Petals nearly elliptical, white or flelh-coloured, moft
beautifully fpotted with yellow and dark red. . Germen altogether
fuperior, red. Capfule inflated, tipped with purple.
It cannot be confounded with any other Britifli fpecies.