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21. False Goat's-beard 



Astilbe decandra. — Fami/v, Saxifrage. Color, white or 

 yellowish. Leaves, twice or thrice compound. Leaflets, thin, 

 heart-shaped, lobed, and toothed. Twie, June. 



Calyx, small, 4 .to 5-parted. Corolla, of 4 to 5 small petals, 

 often wanting in the pistillate flowers. Stamens, 8 or 10. 

 Pistil with 2 styles. Fniit, a 2-celled capsule. Flowers ra- 

 cemed in a large, compound panicle. 



A coarse plant, 4 or 5 feet high, found throughout the Southern 

 States from Virginia to Georgia. Much like Spiraea Ariinciis. 



11. Yellow Mountain-saxifrage 



Saxifraga aizoldes. — Family, Saxifrage. Color, yellow, 

 with deeper spots. Leaves, mostly from the root, long, nar- 

 row, lance-shaped, thick. Time, June. 



Sepals and petals, 5. Stamens, 10. Styles, 2. The plant 

 stems grow in tufts, 3 to 5 inches high, with flowers, few or 

 several in clusters, and a few leaves on the stems. 



Delicate and pretty. Found in cold mountainous regions of 

 northern Vermont and New York. 



23. Mitrewort. Bishop's-cap 



Miiella diphylla ("a cap," from the shape of the pod). — 

 Family, Saxifrage. Color, white. Leaves, of 2 kinds ; those 

 on the rootstocks or runners on slender petioles, heart-shaped, 

 3- to 5-lobed, toothed ; those on the flower-stem, a pair, oppo- 

 site, sessile, with stipules between. Time, May. 



Calyx, 5-cleft. Petals, 5, much cut into slender divisions. 

 Stamens, 10. Styles, 2, short. Capsule, 2-beaked. Flowers, 

 in slender, graceful racemes, 6 to 8 inches long, on rather low 

 and small, hairy stems. 



Range, from New England'to North Carolina. 



