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SAXI F R AGA cernua.
Drooping Bulbous' Saxifrage.
D EC AND III A Digynia.
Gen. Char. Cal. five-cleft. Petals 5. Cap/, with
two beaks, one cell, and many feeds.
Spec. Char. Leaves on footflalks, palmate. Stem
bearing bulbs. Germen fuperior. Petals blunt.
Syn. Saxifraga cernua. Linn. Sp. PI. 577. F I. Lapp,
t. 2. f . 4 . Sm. F I. B rit. 4 5 3 . Dickf. T r. o f Linn.
Soc. v . 2. 2 9 0 . Wiljb. 4 0 5 . Flull. 9 3 .
M r . D I C K S O N firft detedted th is ra re a lpine p lan t on
th e fum m it o f B en L aw ers. T h e impoffibility o f procuring
ffefh fpecimens from th e n c e , h a s m ad e us th an k fu lly accept
th is from th e g a rd en o f th e Rev. M r. Bale, F . L .S . a t W ith -
y am , Sutfex. T h o u g h a cultivated o n e , it e x h ib its th e true
wild ap pea ranc e, and agrees precifely w ith thofe from Scotlan
d an d L ap lan d . I t is p e ren n ia l, a n d flowers in Ju ly or
A u g u ft.
R o o t a fmall fcaly b u lb , th row in g o u t b ra n ch e d b lack fibres.
S tem fo u r o r five in ch e s h ig h , eredl, ro u n d , leafy, moftly
fm o o th , genera lly Ample an d fingle-flowered, fometimes
b ra n c h e d . Leaves a lte rn a te , o n footflalks, kidney-Ihaped,
lobed in a p a lm a te m a n n e r, a little fu c cu len t, fmoothiflb ; the
u p p e r ones b e a rin g in th e ir bofoms little purple fcaly bulbs,
w h ic h fa llin g to th e g ro u n d b e com e new p lan ts. Flowe r term
in a l, folitary, w h ite , m o re o r lefs dro o p in g . Segments of
th e calyx elliptic al, eredt, clothed w ith g lan d u la r h a irs. Petals
obovate, b lu n t, o ften almoft n o tch ed a t th e end, three -nerved,
th e nerves u n ite d above th e bafe, oblite rated before th e y reach
th e top. G e rm e n en tire ly fuperior, g re en.
T h e figure in FI. Dan. t. 3 9 0 , feems ra th e r to b e lo n g to our
p la n t th a n t. 22, w h ic h laft h a s acute p e ta ls, an d always a
Ample ftem. L inna eus did n o t diftinguifh th em .