170 SAXIFRAGACE.E. (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) 



ovate, cream-color, often spotted at the base. Moist rocks, Lab. to N. Vt., 

 L. Superior, and northward. (Eu.) 



6 S. Virgini^nsis, Michx. (EARLY S.) Low (4 - 9' high) ; leaves ob- 

 ovate or oval-spatulate, narrowed into a broad petiole, crenate-toothed, thickish ; 

 flowers in a clustered cyme, which is at length open and loosely panicled ; lobes 

 of the nearly free calyx erect, not half the length of the oblong obtuse (white) petals ; 

 follicles united merely at the base, divergent, purplish. Exposed rocks and 

 dry hillsides; N. Brunswick to Ga., and west to Minn., Ohio, and Tenn. ; 

 common, especially northward. April -June. 



7. S. Pennsylvanica, L. (SWAMP S.) Large (1-2 high) ; leaves ob- 

 lanceolate, obscurely toothed (4 - 8' long), narrowed at base into a short and broad 

 petiole ; cymes in a large oblong panicle, at first clustered ; lobes of the nearly 

 free calyx recurved, about the length of the linear-lanceolate (greenish) small 

 petals ; filaments awl-shaped; follicles at length divergent. Bogs, N. Eng. 

 to Va., west to Minn, and Iowa. 



8. S. erdsa, Pursh. (LETTUCE S.) Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 sharply toothed, tapering into a margined petiole (8-12' long) ; scape slender 

 (1-3 high); panicle elongated, loosely flowered ; pedicels slender ; calyx re- 

 flexed, entirely free, nearly as long as the oval obtuse (white) petals ; filaments 

 club-shaped ; follicles nearly separate, diverging, narrow, pointed, 2-3" long. 

 Cold mountain brooks, Penn. to Va. and N. C. 



9. S. Forbfcsii, Vasey. Stem stout, 2-4 high; leaves denticulate, oval 

 to elongated oblong (4-8' long) ; filaments filiform ; follicles short, ovate ; other- 

 wise as in the last. Shaded cliffs, near Makanda, S. 111. (Forbes) ; E. Mo. 

 (Lettermann.) 



t- H- Petals unequal, with claws, white, all or some of them with a pair of yellow 

 spots near the base ; leaves oblong, wedge-shaped or spatulate ; calyx free 

 and reflexed. 



10. S. leucanthemifdlia, Michx. Leaves coarsely toothed or cut, ta- 

 pering into a petiole ; stems (5 - 1 S' high) bearing one or more leaves or leafy 

 bracts and a loose, spreading corymbose or paniculate cyme ; petals lanceolate, 

 the 3 larger ones with a heart-shaped base and a pair of spots, the 2 smaller 

 with a tapering base and no spots. Mts. of Va. to N. C. and Ga. 



11. S. Stellaris, L., var. comdsa, Willd. Leaves wedge-shaped, more 

 or less toothed ; scape (4 - 5' high) bearing a small contracted panicle, many 

 or most of the flowers changed into little tufts of green leaves ; petals all fan 

 ceolate and tapering into the claw. Mt. Katahdin, Maine, north to Lab. and 

 Greenland. (Eu.) 



3. BOYKINIA, Nutt. 



Calyx-tube top-shaped, coherent with the 2-celled and 2-beaked capsule. 

 Stamens 5, as many as the deciduous petals, these mostly convolute in the 

 bud. Otherwise as in Saxif raga. Perennial herbs, with alternate palmately 

 5 _ 7-lobed or cut petioled leaves, and white flowers in cymes. (Dedicated to 

 the late Dr. Boykin of Georgia.) 



1. B. aconitifdlia, Nutt. Stem glandular (6 -20' high); leaves deeply 

 5 - 7-lobed. Mountains of southwestern Va. to Ga. and Tenn. July. 



