Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

222 DECANDRIA DIGYNIA.
all ; the flowers grow in clufters, fmall, of s^
white or pale red color, with red piftils.
*•'■ Foil is indivijis^ c aid e folio fo.
cppofitifo- S. foliis caulinis ovatis oppoutis fubimbricatis j
^^^ 3- lummis ciiiatis. Sp. pi. 575. {Oed. Dan. t. 34,
Moris, hifi. f. 12. /. 10./. 36. Flor. Lappon. t,
2./. i.Tct. herh.t. 61,/. 9.;
Mountain heath-like Saxifrage. Anglis.
Upon the rocks of the highland mountains fre-
quent, as upon Ben-Lomond.^ &:c. &c. and upon
the mountains in the iflands of Rum and ^kye.
%,Y.
The ftalks are numerous, weak, and filiforme,
trailing upon and hanging over the edges of the
rocks : the leaves are oval, ftiff, and ciliated,
growing oppofite to each other, feflile, and im-
bricated quadrangularly : the ftalks are termi-
nated each with a fmgle feflile flower, of a bright
purple color, turning blue as it goes ofi^, having
a ciliated calyx. It makes an elegant appear-
ance when in flower.
autu?n?ialis S. foUis caulinis linearibus alternis ciiiatis, radica-
4- libus aggregatis. Sp.pl. 575. (Oed. Dan. t. 72.
cpt. Scopol. Plot: CarnioL t. 14. n. 493. hoyia.
Moris, hijl.f. 12. /^. 6./. 3. ordinis fecundi ad dex-
tram. Pel. herb. t. 61./. 10. Ger. Em. 516./. 2.)
Yellow Autumnal Saxifrage. Anglis.
Upon moid rocks, and by the fides of rills amongfl:
the highlarid mountains abundantly. It fre-
quently