92 SAXIFRAGACE^. (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) 



raceme compouud : petals purple, orbicular. — Mountains of Colorado and 

 northward in the Teton Range and the National Park. 



•i- -t- -I- Calyx whollij adherent. 



12. S. debilis, Engelm. Glabrous or very sparingly glandular-pubes- 

 cent : stems weak, ascending, 2 to 4-flowered, 2 to 4 inches high : radical 

 leaves small, crenately lobed ; cauline 3-lobed or entire : petals white or pink- 

 ish, ovate, obtuse. — Mountains of Colorado and northward into Wyoming. 



* * Stemless : petals white. 

 -»- Cali/x free from the ovary, or nearly so: sepals almost distinct, reflexed. 



13. S. punctata, L. ViUous-pubescent or nearly glabrous : leaves long- 

 petioled, reniform or orbicular, equally and deeply dentate: scape slender, naked, 

 1 to l^ feet high, the peduncles and pedicels of the usuallj^ open panicle glandu- 

 lar : petals oval or orbicular. — Colorado, Utah, and northward into British 

 America. 



14. S. Stellaris, L., var. comosa, Poir. Leaves ivedge-shaped, more or 

 less toothed: scape 4 to 5 inches high, l^eariug a small contracted panicle: many 

 or most of the flowers changed into little tufts of green leaves : petals un- 

 equal, lanceolate and tapering into the claw. — Mt. Evans, Colorado ( Greene) ; 

 also in Maine and far northward. 



•I- -t- Calyx adherent to the ovary at base. 

 •f-i- Sepals erect. 



15. S. nivalis, L. Leaves ovate or obovabe, attenuate into a broad 

 petiole, unequally crenate-deutate : scape 2 to 5 inches high, capitately or sub- 

 corymbosely several to many-flowered: petals oblong: capsules purple. — Colo- 

 rado and northward to Arctic America. 



16. S. Virgiuiensis, Michx. Like the preceding, but larger and more 

 open : scape a span to afoot high, at length loosely many-flowered in a paniculate 

 cyme : petals obovate. — In the Rocky Mountains and Coast Ranges ; also com- 

 mon in the Atlantic States. 



++ •*-). Sepals spreading, or at length reflexed. 



17. S. integrifolia, Hook. Leaves from ovate or obovate to lanceolate- 

 spatulate, 1 to 5 inches long, denticulate or entire, narrowed at base into a 

 very short and margined petiole : scape 1 to 3 feet high, viscid : flowers in 

 small clusters usually in a narrow thyrsiform panicle : petals obovate or 

 broadly spatulate. — S. hieracifolia of Hayd. Rep. for 1871 and 1872. From 

 Colorado northward to the Yellowstone and westward to the Sierras. 



2. BOYKINIA, Nutt. 



Calyx 5-lobed. Petals entire, the base contracted into a short claw. — 

 Perennial, with creeping rootstocks, leafy simple stems, and paniculate or 

 corymbose cymes of white flowers : the leaves all alternate, round-reuiform, 

 palmately lobed and incised or toothed, the teeth with callous-glandular tips, 

 and the petiole mostly with stipule-like dilatations or appendages at base. 



1. B. major, Gray. Stem 2 or 3 feet high : leaves 4 to 8 inches in diam- 

 eter, 5 to 9-clef t : petioles abruptly appendaged at base, the lower with scari- 



