DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. rot 
II. SAXIFRAGA, SAXIFRAGE. 
Herbs with simple or palmately cut leaves and generally 
cymose or panicled flowers. Sepals 5, more or less united. 
Petals 5, entire, inserted on the calyx-tube. Stamens 10. 
Capsule consisting of two (sometimes more) ovaries, united at 
the base, separate and diverging above. 
a. (S. VIRGINIENSIS), EARLY SAXIFRAGE, MAYFLOWER. Stem- 
less, with a cluster of spatulate, obovate, or wedge-shaped root-leaves 
and a scape 3-9 inches high, which bears a dense cluster of small, 
white flowers, becoming at length a panicled cyme; petals white, 
oblong, much longer than the calyx. Perennial. 
b. (S. PENNSYLVANICA), SwAmp SAXIFRAGE. Leaves 4-8 in. 
long, oblong-lanceolate and tapering to the base, slightly toothed ; 
scape 1-2 ft. high, bearing an oblong cluster of small, greenish 
flowers, at length diffusely panicled ; petals linear-lanceolate, hardly 
longer than the calyx-lobes. Perennial. 
Ill. MITELLA, MITREWORT, BISHOP’S CAP, FRINGE 
CUP, FAIRY CUP. 
Delicate perennial herbs. Flowers small, pretty, in a 
simple raceme or spike. Calyx 5-cleft, adnate to the base of 
the ovary. Petals 5, cut-fringed, inserted on the throat of the 
calyx-tube. Stamens 5 or 10, not projecting from the calyx- 
tube. Styles 2, very short. Ovary and pod 2-beaked, globu- 
lar, 1-celled. 
(M. pipHyLia), Two-Lteavep Bisnop’s Cap. Stemless, with 
long-petioled, roundish cordate root-leaves, and a scape about 1 ft. 
high bearing two opposite, nearly sessile leaves; flowers many, 
racemed, white. 
ROSACEA, ROSE FAMILY. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate leaves, with stipules, 
and regular flowers. Sepals usually 5, more or less united, 
often alternating with bractlets. Petals 5, rarely none, in- 
serted on the calyx (Fig. 163, 1). Stamens usually indefinite, 
unconnected, inserted with the petals. Pistils 1—many, dis- 
