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WHITE TO GREEN 



ALPINE SAXIFRAGE 



Saxifraga nivalis. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: six inches high, viscid-pubescent, with few or no bracts. 

 Leaves: ovate, narrowed into a margined petiole. Flowers: white, in a 

 compact cluster. Fruit : follicles divergent, purple-red. 



A plant which grows at extremely high altitudes, as well 

 as on the lower mountain slopes. It, too, has a cluster of 

 leaves at the base, rounded and toothed at the top and nar- 

 rowing down sharply towards the root. The flowers grow 

 in handsome compact heads, and the stalks, usually quite 

 bare of leaves, are reddish and not straight. The seed-pods 

 are purple-red and spreading. 



LEPTARRHENA 



Leptarrhena pyrolifolia. Saxifrage Family 



Stems: six to fifteen inches high, rigid, with one or two small leaves 

 with sheathing petioles. Leaves: obovate, coarsely serrate above the 

 middle, attenuate below to a short-winged petiole, which is dilated and 

 sheathing at the base. Flowers: numerous, in bracted paniculate racemes ; 

 petals five, entire, linear, white ; calyx campanulate. Fruit : carpels purple- 

 red, divergent. 



A very handsome plant, with closely clustered flower-heads 

 and thick glossy leaves. In seed it is remarkable for its rich 

 purple-red appearance. It grows in quantities near many 

 alpine streams. 



TELLIMA 



Tellima graiidiflora. Saxifrage Family 



Stems : hispid-pubescent, from short tufted rootstocks. Leaves : round- 

 cordate, three-to-nine lobed, coarsely toothed, on long petioles. Flowers: 

 cream-colour, with rose-pink margins, on very short reflexed pedicels ; 

 calyx thick, cylindraceous, with turbinate tube and short, triangular, erect 

 lobes, inflated ; petals laciniately cut into filiform segments, narrowed 

 below to a short claw. 



