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HEUCHERA* miérantha. 
Small-flowered Heuchera. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SAXIFRAGER. i ; 
HEUCHERA L.— Calyx 5-dentatus, subinequalis. Petala 5. Stamina 5, 
sepalis opposita. Capsula birostris, bilocularis, polysperma. 
H. micrantha ; foliis subrótundis cordatis acaté crenátis subquinquelobis 
petiolis longis caulisque ,basi sparsé villosis; caulinis incisis, paniculá 
coarctatá, petalis lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, staminibus exsertis. 
H. micrantha. Douglas in colloquio. 
Herba perennis, sempervirens, acaulis, cespitosa. ^ Folia subrotundo- 
cordata, acute crenata, subquinqueloba, magis minusve pilosa, longè peti- 
olata; petiolis villosis ; caulina triloba, incisa. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, 
basi subpilosus, sursùm minutissimè glandulosus, ut et inflorescentia omnis. 
Panicula laxa, elongata. Bracteolee subulate. Calyx obconicus, semi- 
superus, 5-dentatus, paululàm obliquus. Petala minuta, lineari-lanceolata, 
unguiculata, integerrima. Stamina 5, exserta, dentibus calycinis opposita. 
A hardy perennial, found by Mr. Douglas in mountainous 
woods, near the grand Rapids of the Columbia. With us it 
flowers in June and July, and propagates readily by division 
of the roots. Its general habit is quite that of H. americana. 
Willdenow, in his papers, has an H. glabra, from the 
North-west coast of North America, the brief character of 
which in Rómer and Schultes (6. 216) answers to this in 
some respects ; but the name is inapplicable if that Botanist 
intended to contrast it with H. americana; and it is 
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* John Henry Heucher is described as a painstaking professor of 
Botany at Wittenberg, in the early part of the eighteenth century. He 
fancied that the tumours on the roots of Hypocheris maculata were so like 
little mice, that he had found an animal-vegetable analogous to the 
Barometz or Scythian lamb. 
