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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 15: With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth
The genus of Saxifraga is on the whole one of the mofi elegant we have in Europe, and the fpecies before us one of the molt rare. It was {hown to Dr. Richardfon by Dr. Km fione, rowing plentifully on Knutsford moor, Chefhire, eafiy in the fall century, and our wild fpecimens were gathered latt fummer in a morafs about the centre of the fame moor by Mr. Okell of Chefier. It is perennial, flowering in Auguf'r, and may be cultivated in a moiti border of hog earth.
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