GREEN GROUP 



Common Alum Root 



Heuchera americana. — -Family, Saxifrage. Calyx, tubular, 

 5-cleft, broad. Petals, 5, small, equaling the calyx divisions. 

 Stamens, 5. Styles, 2. Flowers in small, panicled clusters, insig- 

 nificant. Leaves, principally from a rootstock, roundish, cre- 

 nately lobed and toothed, narrowed at base into flattened petioles. 

 Stem, hairy, beset with small glands, 2 or 3 feet high. 



Hills and rocky woods. 



Miterwort. Bishop's Cap 



Mitetta nuda. — Family, Saxifrage. Calyx, short, 5-cleft. Corolla 

 of 5 slender petals. Stamens, 10. Styles, short, 2. Leaves, gener- 

 ally 2, from runners or a rootstock, roundish or kidney-shaped, 

 with crenate outlines, small. May to July. 



A few small flowers are borne on leafless, slender stems, 

 low, often almost hidden in moss where it delights to grow. 

 In cool woods. 



Golden Saxifrage 



Chrysosplenium americanum. — Family, Saxifrage. Greenish, 

 often tinged with yellow or purple. Petals, none. Calyx, with 

 4 or 5 lobes, green outside, yellowish within. Stamens, 8 or 10, 

 on a large disk. Styles, 2. Flowers; small, single or in cymose, 

 leafy clusters, on slender, reclining stems. Leaves mostly op- 

 posite, small, thickish, round, or heart - shaped, slightly lobed. 

 April and May. 



The name is misleading, for the predominant color of the 

 flower is not yellow. Cold swamps or wet places. 



Three-seeded Mercury 



Acatypba <virginica. — Family, Spurge. Flowers, monoecious, the 

 staminate and pistillate each with a calyx 3 to 5-parted. The 

 staminate are small, almost minute, clustered in front of a small 

 bract, in spikes. The pistillate, either singly or 2 or 3 together, 

 grow in the axils of large, palmately-cleft, fruiting, leaf-like bracts. 

 Stamens, 8 to 16, the anthers often being curved. Styles, 3, and 

 the capsule is 3-seeded. Leaves, alternate, petioled, ovate or 

 oblong, with stipules. July to September. 



The plant is somewhat hairy, 18 to 20 inches high, turning 

 reddish or purplish late in the season. It is a homely, 

 nettle-like weed. In dry fields and open places, New Eng- 

 land to Minnesota, southward to Florida. 

 Wild Ipecac 



Euphorbia Ipecacuanhae. — Family, Spurge. It is difficult to 

 enumerate the flowers of members of this family as of a particular 



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