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WHITE TO GREEN 



ALPINE SAXIFRAGE 



Saxif?-aga nwalis. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: six inches high, viscid-pubescent, with few or no bracts. 

 Leaves: ovate, narrowed into a margined petiole. Flowers: white, in a 

 compact cluster. Fruit : follicles divergent, purple-red. 



A plant which grows at extremely high altitucle.s, as well 

 as on the lower mountain slopes. It, too, has a cluster of 

 leaves at the base, rounded and toothed at the top and nar- 

 rowing down sharply towards the root. The flowers grow 

 in handsome compact heads, and the stalks, usually quite 

 bare of leaves, are reddish and not straight. The seed-pods 

 are purple-red and spreading. 



LEPTARRHENA 



Lcptan-Iiciia pyn'oli folia. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: six to fifteen inches high, rigid, with one or two small leaves 

 with sheathing petioles. Leaves: obovate, coarsely serrate above th? 

 middle, attenuate below to a short-winged petiole, which is dilated and 

 sheathing at the base. Flowers: numerous, in bracted paniculate racemes : 

 petals five, entire, linear, white ; calyx campanulate. Fruit : carpels purple- 

 red, divergent. 



A very handsome plant, with closely clustered flower-heads 

 and thick glossy leaves. In seed it is remarkable for its rich 

 puri)le-red appearance. It grows in quantities near many 

 alpine streams. 



TELLIMA 



Ti'lliina i^idih/i/lora. Saxifrage Familv 



Stems: hi,s])id-pubescent, from sliort tufted rootslocks. Leaves: round- 

 cordate, thrce-lonine lol)e(I, coarsely toothed, on long petioles. Flowers: 

 cream-colour, with ro.se-i)ink margins, on very sliort reflexed pedicels; 

 calyx thick, cylindraceous, with turl)inate Uibe and short, triangular, erect 

 lobes, inflated ; petals laciniately cut into filiform .segments, narrowed 

 below to a sliort claw. 



