168 SAXIFRAGACE^E. (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) 



olate ; petals white, orate. Alpine region of Mount Washington, New Hamp- 

 shire (Oakes, &c.) : rare. (Eu.) 



3. S. aizoides, L. (YELLOW MOCNTAIN-S.) Low (3' -5' high), in 

 tufts, with few or several corymbose flowers; leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, fleshy, 

 distantly spinulose-ciliate ; petals yellow, spotted with orange, oblong. Willoughby 

 Mountain, Vermont ; near Oneida Lake, New York ; N. Michigan ; and north- 

 ward. June. (Eu.) 



4. S. tricuspidata, Retz. Stems tufted (4' -8' high), naked above; 

 flowers corymbose ; leaves oblong or spatulate, with 3 rigid sharp teeth at the sum- 

 mit ; petals obovate-oblong, yellow. Shore of L. Superior and northward. (Eu.) 



# # # Leaves clustered at the root : scape many-flowered, erect, clammy-pubescent. 

 H- Petals all alike. 



5. S. Aiz6on, Jacq. Leaves persistent, thick, spatulate, with white cartilagi- 

 nous toothed margins ; calyx partly adherent ; petals obovate, cream-color, often 

 spotted at the base. Moist rocks, Upper Michigan and Wisconsin ; Willoughby 

 Mountain, Vermont (Mr. Blake), and northward. Scape 5'- 10' high. (Eu.) 



6. S. Virgini6nsis, Michx. (EARLY S.) Low (4' -9' high); leaves 

 obovate 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; 

 pods 2, united merely at the base, divergent, purplish. Exposed rocks : com- 

 mon, especially northward. April - June. 



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

 oblanceolate, obscurely toothed (4' - 8' long), narrowed at the 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 ; fllaments awl-shaped : pods at length divergent. Bogs : common, es- 

 pecially northward. May, June. A homely species. 



8. S. er6sa, Pursh. (LETTUCE S.) Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, 

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

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

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

 shaped; pods 2, nearly separate, diverging. Cold mountain brooks, Penn- 

 sylvania (near Bethlehem, Mr. Wolfe), and throughout the Alleghanies, south- 

 ward. June. 



t * 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 



9. S. Ieucanthemif61ia, Lapeyrouse, Michx. Leaves coarsely toothed 

 or cut, tapering into a petiole; scapes (5' -18' 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. Salt Pond Mountain, Virginia 

 ( Wm. M. Canby), and southward in the Alleghanies. 



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

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



