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SAXIFRAGACEJE. (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) 
ed mostly loose panicle, greenish-white, tinged with purple. 
(Named in honor of Heucher , an early German botanist.) 
1. II. Amcricstna, L. Hairy-pubescent, the scape with some¬ 
what clammy hairs; lobes of the leaves short and rounded ; panicle 
loose ; stamens at length muck longer than the regular calyx. — Rocky 
woodlands, Connecticut to Ohio southward. June. —Scape 2°-4° 
high : flowers quite small. 
II. pilbescens, Pursh. Scape minutely granular-pubescent , 
or smooth below, often 2-4-leaved; lobes of the leaves rounded, 
sharply toothed with broad pointed teeth, ciliate with bristly hairs, 
otherwise almost smooth; panicle contracted; stamens shorter than the 
somewhat unequal erect lobes of the calyx. — Mountains of Penn, and 
southward. June. — Flowers thrice the size of No. 1. 
4 . MITE EE A, Tourn. Mitre-wort. Bishop’s-cap. 
Calyx short, coherent with the base of the ovary, 5-cleft. Pe¬ 
tals o, slender, pinnatifid. Stamens 10, included. Styles 2 , very 
short. Pod short, 2 -beaked, 1-celled with 2 parietal or rather ba¬ 
sal several-seeded placentae, 2 -valved at the summit.— Low and 
slender perennials, with round heart-shaped leaves from the root- 
stock or runners, on slender petioles; those on the scapes oppo- 
sitt, if any. Flowers small, in a simple slender raceme or spike, 
(i ame a diminutive from pirpa, a mitre, or cap , from the form of 
the young pod.) 
k. (Common Mitre-wort.) Leaves heart- 
ed-scai)^^ 6 ' 8 ° me what 3-5-lobed, toothed, those on the many -flower• 
woods w 7T e \ n 7 ly Se * sUe O 2 '- 20 ' high).-Hill-sides in rich 
rsceme & ^ ^ * * 
/earMr!L„^!!** a ; ( s *au. Mitre-wort.) Small and slender; 
ally leafless feu: n“ nty 'J° rm ' dee P*y and doubly crenate ; scape usu- 
¥ ' Ter ^ 9lender ( 4 '-6' high). (M. cordifilia, 
to Wisconsin il* M ^ ^~ I)ee P IIIO ist woods with mosses, Maine 
shooU^Zb’ D ° rthward - - July. _ A delicate little plant, 
fonh rUnnere *" ^mtner. Blossoms greenish. 
p L. False Mitre-wort. 
5 with i-l ** a P ed > nearly free from the ovary, 5-parted. Petal 
Stamens 10, long and slender. Styles 2 
1-ceiled, 2-valved, the valves very unequal 
** tbW> St the base each placenta, globular. - Perennial. 
