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one-third to three-fourths of an inch long, one-eighth of an inch wide or 

 usually less, sometimes sparingly ciliate on the margins. Flowers several, 

 corymbose, one-third to two-thirds of an inch broad on slender pedicels; 

 petals five, oblong, yellow and often spotted with orange, longer than 

 the ovate calyx lobes and alternate with them. Stamens ten; ovary almost 

 superior, the two capsules united to above the middle. 



On wet or dripping rocks, Newfoundland and Labrador to Vermont, 

 northern and western New York, and west through Arctic America to the 

 Rocky mountains. Also in Alpine and Arctic Europe and Asia. Flowering 

 in July and August. 



Early Saxifrage 

 Micranthes virginiensis (Linnaeus) Small 



Plate 8?a 



Flowering stem 4 to 12 inches high, viscid-pubescent with whitish 

 hairs, leafless or with a few green bracts at the base of the inflorescence. 

 Leaves all basal, i to 3 inches long, obovate, or oval, toothed, blunt or 

 pointed at the apex, spatulate at the base and narrowed into a margined 

 petiole; inflorescence cymose, becoming paniculate by the elongation of 

 the lower branches. Flowers white, less than one-fourth of an inch broad ; 

 calyx of five erect, triangular, pointed lobes; petals five, oblong- spatulate, 

 obtuse, longer than the calyx; stamens ten, carpels of the fruit usually 

 two, nearly separate, widely divergent when mature. 



In dry or rocky woodlands, banks and ledges, New Brunswick to 

 Minnesota, south to Georgia and Tennessee. Flowering from April until 

 June. 



Swamp Saxifrage 

 Micranthes pennsylvanica (Linnaeus) Haworth 



Plate 86 



Flowering scape stout, viscid-pubescent, i to 3^ feet high, with green 

 bracts at the inflorescence, otherwise leafless. Leaves all basal, large, 

 oval, ovate, obovate or oblanceolate, pubescent or nearly glabrous, 4 to 

 10 inches long, obtuse at the apex, narrowed below into a broad petiole, 



