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HEUCHERA* micrantha. 

 Small-flowered Heuchera. 



PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA 



Nat. ord. Saxifrages. 



HEUCHERAh. — CaZz/a:5-dentatus,subinsequalis. PetalaS. StaminaS, 

 sepalis opposita. Capsula birostris, bilocularis, polysperma. 



H. micrantha ; foliis subrotundis cordatis acut6 crenatis subquinquelobis 

 petiolis longis caulisque basi sparse villosis ; caulinis incisis, panicula 

 coarctata, petalis lineari-lanceolatis integerrimis, staminibus exsertis. 

 H. micrantha. Douglas in colloquio. 



Herba perennis, sempervirens, acaulis, ccespitosa. Folia subrotundo- 

 cordata, acute crenata, subquinqueloha, magis minusve pilosa, longe peti- 

 olata ; petiolis villosis ; caulina triloba, incisa. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, 

 basi suhpilosus, sursiim minutissime glandulosus, ut et inflorescentia omnis. 

 Panicula laxa, elongata. Bracteolse subulatce. Calyx obconicus, semi- 

 superus, 5-dentatns, paululilm 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 Romer afid 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 



* John Henry Heucher is described as a painstaking professor of 

 Botany at WittenlDerg, in the early part of the eighteenth century. He 

 fancied that the tumours on the roots of Hypochaeris maculata were so like 

 little mice, that he had found an animal-vegetable analogous to the 

 Barometz or Scythian lamb. 



