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Common in ditches ami swampy places. Now Brunswick to Florida, 

 west to Nebraska, Kansas and Texas. Flowering from July to September. 



Not a very attractive plant, but the only American representative 

 of the IVnthor. Virginia Stonecrop family), which is joined with 



the Saxifrage family by some authors and to the Orpine family by others. 



Grass-of-Parnassns Family 



I' a r n a s s i a c e a e 

 Carolina Grass-of-Parnassus 



Piirnassiti ftirnlinnina Michaux 



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Flowering M.-ajx- <> to 20 inches high, with a sessile, ovate, clasping 

 leaf below the middle. Basal leaves very numerous, ovate, oval, or nearly 

 orbicular, obtuse at the ajx-x, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, or 

 decurrent on the petiole, I to 2 inches long, on jx-tioles ;? to 6 inches long. 

 Flowers three-fourths to ij inches broad; calyx loU-s live, ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse and much shorter than the live broadly oval, white, gm-nish veined 

 petals; each petal with a set i usually three) of gland-tipjx-d staminodia at 

 the base which do not exceed the five fertile stamens in length, the latter 

 alternate with the petals. Fruit a one-celled capsule about one-half of an 

 inch long. 



In swamps, low meadows and boggy places. New Hrunswick to Mani- 

 toba, south to Virginia, Illinois and Iowa. Flowering from July to Sep- 

 temlx-r, rarely earlier than July in our latitude-. At Taberg growing on wet 

 cliffs with the Yellow Mountain Saxifrage and Dwarf Canadian Primrose. 



Saxifrage Family 



S a x i f r a g a c e a e 



Yellow Mountain Saxifrage 



Leplasea aizoides (Linnaeus) Haworth 



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Stems tufted, forming loose or dense leafy mats, 2 to 7 inches high. 

 Leaves alternate, linear, thick, fleshy, sharply pointed at the ajx-x, sessile, 



