48 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



6. CHRYSOPLE'NIUM, Touru. GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE. 

 C. America'num, Schwein. A low and delicate smooth hrrb, 

 with spreading and forking stems. Flowers greenish-yellow, 



inconspicuous, nearly sessile in the forks. Shady wet places. 



O.U.ER XXXIV. CRASSULA'CEJE. (ORPINE FAMILY.) 



Succulent herbs (except in one genus), chiefly differing from 

 Saxifragaceje in having Ni/mmetrical flowers, the sepals, petals, 

 and carpels being the same in number, and the stamens either as 

 many or twice as many. 



1. PEIV'THORUM, Gronov. DITCH STONE-CROP. 



P. sedoi'des, Gronov. Not succulent. Sepals 5. Petals 5, if 

 any; sometimes wanting. Stamens 10. Pod 6-angUd, 5~homed t 

 and 5-ceUed. Leaves scattered, lanceolate, acute at both ends. A 

 homely weed, with greenish-yellow flowers in a loose cyme. 

 Wet places. (Parts of the flowers occasionally in sixes or 

 sevens.) 



. SEDUM, Tourn. STONE-CROP. ORPINE. 



S. acre, L. (Mossy STONE-CROP.) Leaves very thick and 

 succulent, crowded, very small. Petals yellow. A sprr;nlin^ 

 moss like plant, which has escaped from cultivation in many 

 places. Roadsides. 



ORDER XXXV. HAMAMELA'CEJE. (WITCH-HAZEL F.) 



Tall shrubs, with alternate simple leaves, and deciduous 

 stipules. Flowers in clusters or heads, often moim-rions. 

 Calyx 4-parted, adherent to the base of the ovary, the latter 

 of 2 united carpels. Fruit a 2-beaked, 2-celled, woody pod, 

 opening at the top. Petals 4, strap-shaped, inserted on the 

 calyx. Stamens 8, 4 of them anther-bearing, the remainder 

 reduced to scales. The only genus with us is 



HAMAME'LJS, L. WITCH-HA/EI,. 



H. Virgin'ica, L. Leaves obovate or oval, crenate or wavy- 

 toothed, pubescent. Flowers yellow, appearing late in autumn. 

 Damp woods, chiefly west of Toronto. 



