172 A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



oval or roundish, without teeth, about 13^ in. long. Flower 

 white, about i in, wide, the 5 petals more or less pointed. 

 Fruit dry. New Brunswick to Virginia, and westward. July- 

 August. Fig. 520. 



521. Flowers not white. 



Flowers greenish ; leaves wavy-margined or toothed 



Swamp Saxifrage no. 522 



Flowers not greenish; leaves toothless, 



Salt marsh plant ; flowers small, lavender purple 



Sea Lavender no. 523 



Dry land plants ; flowers pink. 



Flower about i in. wide Wild Pink no. 524 



Flower about ^ in. wide Sleepy Catchfly no. 525 



522. Swamp Saxifrage. Micranthes pennsyhanica. (Saxi- 

 fraga pennsylvanica.) (Saxifragaceae.) A marsh or swamp 

 plant with basal leaves and a terminal flower cluster, 1-23/2 

 ft. tall. Leaves oblong, or oblong-oval, essentially stalkless, 

 wavy-margined, sticky-hairy, 5-8 in. long, about i^ in. 

 wide. Flowers minute, in a branched cluster, greenish. Maine 

 and Ontario to Virginia, and westward. May. Fig. 522. See 

 No. 512. 



523. Sea Lavender. Limonium carolinianum. (Plumbagin- 

 aceae.) A salt marsh plant with a thick woody base and a 

 rosette of leathery basal leaves, which are broadest towards 

 the tip and taj^er towards the base. Leaves 5-8 in. long, 

 fine pointed at the tip. Flowers minute in a large, branching 



