13IJ SAXIFRAdK FAMILY. 



* Flowers very small : stamens and styles protruding. 



H. Americana, COMMOV A.: the only one N. and K. of IVnn., has 

 scapca and loose panicle (2-.'i high) ciammv-glandular and ot'n-n hairy, 

 leaves with rounded loin-.-, and jrceni>li I lower.- in early summer. 



H. Villosa, from Maryland and Kentucky S. along the upper country, is 

 lower, beset with .-"i't often ru-ty hair-, lias deeprr-lobed leavo, and very small 

 white or whiti-h llowers, later in Mimmer. 



* * I-'Inn; ,-s lan/er (the cat y.r fully 4' lour/), in >i n< irfnirrr panicle, greenish, with 



stiin/in* littii ij nt nil /iriitnidiiK/ : liant rimml mid s/ii/liti// 5- O-ltitud. 



H. hispida. Mountains of Virginia and X. W. Tall (scape 2-4 



hi.uh), usually with spreading hairs ; stamens a little protruding. 



H. pubescens. From S. 1'enn. S. Scapes ( l-3 high) and petioles 

 roughish-ghmdular rather than pubescent ; stamens shorter than the lobes of 

 the >alyx. 



9. BOYKINIA. (Xamcd for the late Dr. Boykin, of Georgia.) ^ 



B. aconitifolia, occurs only along the Alleghanies from Virginia S. : 

 stem clammy-glandular, bearing a or 4 alternate palmately 5-7-cleft and cut 

 leaves and a cyme of rather small white flowers, in summer. There is one very 

 like it in Oregon and California. 



10. SAXIFRAGA, SAXIFRAGE. (Latin name, means >,/-/ 



manv species rooting in the clefts of rocks.) Besides the following, there are 

 a number of rare or local wild species. 



* Wild species, n-ith /cares all clustered at the perennial root, the naked scape 

 clammy a/><i/->- and Imirim/ many small flower* in a panicle or cyme, the t>ci> 

 ovaries nnitl />a rely at the base, making at lenyth a pair of nearly separate 



i/ir, i-i/i'ut jiods. 



S. Virginiensis, KAKI.Y S. On rocks and moist lianks ; with obovate 

 or wedge-spatulati' tliiekish more or less toothed leaves in an open cluster, scape 

 3' -9' high, bearing in early spring white llowers in a dense cluster, which 

 at length opens into a loose panicled cyme ; calyx not half the length of the 

 petals : pods turning purple. 



S. Pennsylvanica, SWAMP S. In low wet ground N. ; with lance- 

 oblong or oblanccolate obtuse leaves (4' -8' long) obscurely toothed and nar- 

 rowed into a very short broad petiole, scape 1 2 high, bcariiiLT small 

 greeni.-di (lowers in an oblong cluster, opening with age into a looser panicle (in 

 spring) ; the rellexcd lobes of the calyx us long as the lance-linear petals. 



S. erosa, LICTTITK S. Cold brooks, from I'enn. S. along the Alle- 

 ghanies ; the lance-oblong obtuse leaves (8'- 12' long) sharply erosely toothed ; 

 scape l-3 high, heariii'_r a loose panicle of slender-pcdicelled small white 

 (lowers (in summer) ; with rellexcd sepals as long as tin- oval petals, and club- 

 ihapcd tilaments. 



* * K.rnlic x/nci,'!!, cull, for ornament : Intrcs nil clnst/ nd at the perennial n>r . 

 or<n-i,s -2. nr smut times 3-4, (dinnst sijiaruti, lifcomiinj a* many nearly dis 

 tine/ 



S. crassifolia, TIIICK-I.KAVKD S. Cult, from Siberia, very smooth, with 

 fle-div and creeping or prostrate root-lock^, .-ending up thick roundish-obovate 

 nearly evergreen leaves, 6' - 9' long, ami scapes bearing an ample at first com- 

 pact cvme of lu rue bright ro-e-colorc<l (|nwer>, in early spring. 



S. sarmentbsa, HKKKSTKAK S., al>o called STRAWBERRY (!i:i; \\IIM. 

 Cult, from China and .Japan as a house-plant, not quite hardv N., rather hairy, 

 with rounded hcan-.-haped or kidney-shaped and doubly toothed leaves of tlohy 

 texture, purple underneath, green-veined or mottled with white above, on shaggy 

 petioles, from their axils sending oil' Mender strawberry-like runners, by which 

 the plant i- multiplied, and scapes hearing a light very open panicle of irregular 

 flowers, with .'? of the petals small rose-pink and yellow-spotted, and 2 inuch 

 longer and nearly white ones lanceolate and hanging. 



