Saxifraga. SAXIFRAGACE/E. jqq 



llio. bas.. or tiibo of tl.o calyx : anthois 2-<;(ni(Ml. Carpels 2 (rarely 3 or more) 

 nearly or quito distinct, or more or less united into a 2-cell(Hl ovary : styles distinct, 

 persistent and at len-th diverging : stigmas tliickisli, luostly dcpresse'd-capitate or 

 reniforiu. Fruit of 2 follicles or a 2-lobed or 2-beaked capsule, opening down the 

 beaks or by the ventral suture. Seeds numerous ; the coat not wiug-margined or 

 appendaged, mostly thin. — Herbs, either stendess or sliort-stemmed ; with alternate 

 simple leaves, their petioles commonly sheathing at base, and small flowers in cymes, 

 cymose panicles, or clusters, or sometimes solitary. 



A large genus, inniMly of tl.e northern hemisphere, and of cool or frigid regions • nearly 50 are 

 fZXtT"'"''' ^""^' rf'^ "' *'':■'" l"^"'g,??'"«^«n to the New and the^Old Wor d and Siefly of 

 Uot) aJe I'culk'f ■ " "" '"' '" '"'•'""'" ' '"' '''' °' ^'^'^'" (^"'"""g ^'^^ ^^''^ ^wo sec- 



§ 1. Stemless and large-leaved from a very thick and Jhsluj creepimj rooMock : calux 

 ^-parted, spreading tn fruit, nearly free from the ttvo quite separate ovate 

 diverging follicles: seeds pretty large, angled. 



1. S. peltata, 'lorr. Kootstork largo and long (1 to 3 inches in diauieter), tho 

 younger part s.-aly ; the apex son<ling up a stout s.-ape (from a fo.^t to at length 

 some lines a yanl high) and later one or more large centrally peltate and orbicular 

 J-14-lobed leaves on long and stout petioles: flowers pin'k-purplo, numerous in a 

 corymbose c>'me : petals roundish-oval, without claws: mature follicles turgid-ovate 

 — Benth. PI. Hartw. 311, Sc Hot. Wilkes Exp. Atl. t. 5 (1862), ^ 309 (1874)- 

 Hook. f. Hot. Mag. t. 0071. Lepf„rrhena innndnfa, I'.ehr in Pro,- (^dif. Acad 

 I. 45 Sc .17. ' ' ■ 



Along and in the hods of qnirk-flowing streamlets, through the Sierra Nevada from Mariposa 

 wca Z^":'":t'" "m ^''f-^^'^ «f ,/••" «aeramento iPirk-n-in, k Brackcnridgc, FreZnt Hart- 

 !f^',K?;.^' ?^!^'".?^^""'?""°^o- i^olander), &c. The rather fleshy stout seanes and ^etiolp. 



§ 2. Ste,nless; the naked scape and later a short leaf or ttvo from a hidhdike conn ■ 

 calyx slightly bdohed, campanulate, free from and nearli, enclosing the two- 

 tobed capsvle. 



2. S. Panyi, .Torr. Somewhat pubescent: scape iiliform and naked, 2 to 4 

 inches ngh, bearing 3 to 7 shnrt-pedicelled flowers, followed by one or more short- 

 petiole.l rouiKled-subcordate slightly several-lobed and crenate toothed leaves (an 

 inch or ess in diameter) : petals white, marked with brown-pnrple veins, ovate and 

 at length spatulate-oblong, inserted by short claws nearly in the sinuses of the c.^m- 

 panulate brown-nerved calyx : filaments slender-subulate, borne lower <lown • styles 

 slemler, m fruit exserted out of the calyx : seeds minute, somewhat angled ; the coat 

 rather loose. — Eot. Mex. Bound. 09, t. 25. 



Dry hills, in and around S.nn Diego and San Luis Hey, Prrrrv. Knrhrrv^i, Chvelmid kc Flower- 



Xoi"Z"^:2oX^"''T''' "'"" '^''rr '"«*" ' *'"^" ^•^"^••"« "Pits leaves ; 'after Huiting 

 a bro,mv / nnljSl disappears untd the ne.xt rainy season. Cnlyx hareiv 3 lines long, with 



Lb?t , Jl thp 1 ? ' r""^ 'r' ^ *'''^"F"^"--ovate short erect lobes. Petals 2 lines lon<:^ The 

 habit and the Ingh insertion of the petals in (he orifice of the campauulate caly.v are pecuFiar. 



