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12. S. oppositifblia L. (Mouxtaix S.) Leaves (2-4 mm. long) fleshy, ovate, 

 keeled,, ciliate, i rubricated on the sterile branches; petals purple, much longei 

 than the 5-cleft calyx. — Calcareous rocks, Arctic Am., s. to Gulf of St. Law 

 rence, mts. of n. Vt., Mont, and Ida. May, June, rarely Aug. (Eurasia.) 



5. TIARELLA L. False Miterwort 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-parted. Petals 5, with claws. Stamens long and slen- 

 der. Styles 2. Capsule membranaceous, 2-valved ; the valves unequal. Seeds 

 few, at the base of each parietal placenta, globular, smooth. — Perennials ; flow- 

 ers white. (Xame a diminutive from ndpa, a tiara, or turban, from the form 

 of the pistil, which is like that of Mitella, to which the name of Mitericort 

 properly belongs.) 



1. T. cordif51ia L. Leaves from the rootstock or summer runners, heart- 

 shaped, sharply lobed and toothed, sparsely hairy above, downy beneath ; stem 

 (1-4 dm. high) leafless or rarely with 1 or 2 leaves ; raceme simple ; petals ob- 

 long, often subserrate. — Rich rocky woods, N. S. and N. B. to Minn., Ind., and 

 southw. in the mts. Apr.-June. 



6. HEUCHERA L. Alum Root 



Calyx 5-cleft. Petals 5. spatulate. Styles 2, slender. Capsule 1-celled, 

 with 2 parietal many-seeded placentae, 2-beaked, openmg between the beaks. 

 Seeds oval, with a rough and close seed-coat. — Perennials, with the round 

 heart-shaped leaves principally from the rootstock ; those on the stems, if any, 

 alternate. Petioles with dilated margins or adherent stipules at their base. 

 Flowers in small clusters borne in a narrow panicle, greenish or purplish. 

 (Named for J. H. Heiicher, a German botanist of the 17th and 18th centuries.) 



Calyx regular or essentially so. 

 Calyx in anthesis 1.5-2 mm. long. 

 Leaves with prominent triangular lobes. 



Lower leaf-surfaces glabrous or merely villous along the nerves . . 1. IT. villosa. 



Lower leaf-surfaces villous 2. ff. macrorhiza. 



Leaves reniform, with obscure rounded lobes S. H. parrijlora. 



Calyx in anthesis 3-6 mm. long A. H. amerieana. 



Calyx oblique, often very irregular. 

 Stamens about equaling or slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. 



Petioles hairy . . . ' . . . . " b. H. hispida. 



Petioles at most granular- or glandular-puberulent 6. B. pubescens. 



Stamens about twice as long as the calyx-lobes I.E. hirsuticaulig. 



1. H. villbsa Michx. Rootstock elongate, 0.5-1 cm. in diameter; stems sleyi- 

 der (1-3 mm. in diameter at base), 2-9 dm. high, more or less villous with rusty 

 hairs, especially below ; leaves basal, thin, acutely 1-9-lobed, on slender rusty- 

 villous petioles ; bracts of the loose panicle linear ; calyx and pedicels some- 

 what glandular-hispid ; petals spatulate-linear, about as long as the exserted 

 stamens, soon twisted. (H. crinita Rydb.) — Shallow soil on rocks, Md. to 

 111., s. to Ga. and Tenn. June-Aug. 



2. H. macrorhiza Small. Similar; rootstock stout,, woody. 1.5-2 cm. in 

 diameter; stems stout (4-8 mm. in diameter at base), sometimes leafy, 3-10 dm. 

 high, very densely villous with sordid hairs ; basal leaves thick, suborbicular, 

 densely pubescent beneath, sparingly so above, on stout rusty-villous petioles ; 

 bracts of the panicle oblong. — Limestone cliffs and river-bluffs. Ky. and Tenn. 



3. H. parviflbra Bartl. Stems slender, 1.2-6 dm. high, glandular-hirsute 

 (rarely glabrate), as well as the petioles, etc.; leaves round-reniform. with 7-9 

 short and broad rounded lobes; flowers vei'y small (2 mm, long); petals linear- 

 spatulate. twice as long as the cal\ x-lobes ; fruit narrow. (H. Rugelii Shuttlw.) 

 — Shaded cliffs, Va. to s. 111.. Mo. and Ga. 



4. H. amerieana L. (Common A.) Stems (6-9 dm. high), etc., glandular 

 and more or less hirsnte with short hairs; leaves roundish, with .short rounded 

 lobes and crenate teeth ; calyx very broad, 4 mm. long, the spatxdate petals 

 equaling or slightly longer than its lobes. (II. lancipetala Kydb.) — Hockv 



