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

DECANDRIA DIGYNIA. 223
quently grows by road-fides, even at the foot
of them, as at the pafs of KilUcranky^ near
^lair, &c. -n. VII. VIII.
The root throws out feveral trailing furculi : the
llalks are fix or eight inches high, reclining at
the bafe : the leaves are of a narrow elliptical
form, acute, fefTile, alternate, and generally a
little ciliated on the edges, though fometimes
fmooth : the flowers grow at the top of the ftalk,
one or two upon a peduncle, in number from
four to ten, or a dozen : the petals are elliptical,,
yellow, generally dotted with faffron-color'd
fpots, and grow expanded and plane : the feo--
ments of the calyx are of the fame length as the
petals, and grow open and flat.
That this is the fame plant which Linmeus calls
Saxifraga aizoides, growing in Sweden and Lap-
land, there can be no doubt, from the defcrip-
tions and figures of authors : we chufe therefore,
with Jacquin and Haller, to confider them both
as ° one fpecies, and adopt the trivial nam.e of
autumnalis as well fuited to both. The plant
growing upon Knotsford moor, in Chejhire, men-
tioned by Ray and Hudfon, and fuppofed by the
latter to be the S. dutumnalis^ of Lin}2£us, we
have feen, and found to be the S. hirculus of
that author, figur'd in Oed. Dan. t. 200. is! tlalL
Stirp. Helvet. vol. I. p. 140. t. ii.
*** Foliis hhatis, caule ereclo.
SAXIFRAGA foliis caulinis reniformibus lobatis,
cauk