326 Yellow to Orange Flowers 



YELLOW SAXIFRAGE 



Saxifraga aizoidcs. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: leafy. Leaves: alternate, linear, thick, fleshy, mucronate- 

 tipped, narrowed at the base, sessile, the margins sparingly ciliate. 

 Flowers: several, corymbose; petals five, oblong, yellow, usually spotted 

 with orange ; calyx five-lobed, base of the capsule adnate to the calyx ; 

 stamens ten, inserted with the petals. Fruit: ovary two-celled, two- 

 lobed at the summit ; styles short ; stigmas capitate. 



This Yellow Saxifrage grows among the wet rocks at 

 high altitudes. It has slender stems, adorned with al- 

 ternate leaves, which are long and narrow and edged with 

 a few fine hairs. The flowers grow erect and open out very 

 wide, their petals being usually spotted with orange. The 

 ten stamens are conspicuous, and so is the large two-celled 

 ovary, while the styles are short and tipped with roundish 

 stigmas. This plant grows in dense tufted clusters from 

 two to six inches high, and may be found in the most sun- 

 forsaken crannies, where the icy breezes blow across the 

 snow-fields. 



GOLDEN SAXIFRAGE 

 Chrysosplenium tetrandrum. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: erect, branched above. Leaves: alternate, reniform-cordate, 

 doubly crenate or somewhat lobed. Flowers: corymbose, axillary 

 Fruit: capsule membranous, short, inversely cordate. 



A marsh plant, or growing in the moist shade, from two 

 to six inches high with alternate rounded blunt-toothed 

 leaves, and orange-yellow flowers that usually have four 

 calyx lobes, coloured within, the four to eight stamens being 

 inserted on the margin of a disk. 



