SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. Saxifragaceae. 



Dotted Saxifrage 



Leptasea austro- 



montana. 



(Saxifraga 



bronchialis) 



White 



Summer 



Northwest 



Pretty little plants, about six inches tall, 

 forming matted clumps of stiff, rather 

 dark green foliage, the twigs crowded with 

 leathery, toothless leaves, bristly along 

 the edges and tipped with a little stiff 

 point. The pretty flowers are about half 

 an inch across, their white petals dotted 

 with dark red or purple towards the tips, 

 sometimes dotted with yellow near the center, with yellow 

 anthers and a pale green ovary, partly inferior. These 

 little plants sometimes cover rocky slopes for long dis- 

 tances with their leafy mats and are common in the moun- 

 tains at moderate altitudes. 



There are several kinds of Muscaria, perennial, matted 

 herbs; leaves alternate, usually three-lobed, mostly from 

 the root ; flowers white, single, or a few in terminal clusters; 

 sepals five; petals five, without claws; stamens ten; ovary 

 about one-half inferior. 



Pretty little plants, from two to six 

 inches tall, with small leaves, with from 

 three to five lobes or teeth, forming matted 

 patches of pretty foliage, from which 

 spring many slender, slightly hairy flower- 

 stems, with a few bracts or leaves, and 

 bearing one or more pretty flowers, less 

 than half an inch across, with white petals, yellow anthers, 

 and a greenish-yellow ovary. This grows in rocky crevices 

 in the mountains, across the continent, also in arctic and 

 alpine Europe and Siberia. 



There are a good many kinds of Lithophragma, peren- 

 nials, bearing bulblets on their slender rootstocks and 

 sometimes also on the stems; leaves more or less divided, 

 mostly from the root; stipules small; flowers few, in a 

 loose, terminal cluster; sepals five; petals five, white or 

 pink, with claws; stamens ten, short; ovary superior 

 partly inferior, with three short styles. 



A little woodland plant, delicate an 

 pretty, with a slender, hairy stem, fron 

 nine inches to two feet tall, springin 

 from a pretty cluster of hairy leaves 

 variable in shape, but usually with thra 

 or five lobes. The starry flowers ar 

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Tufted Saxifrage 



Muscaria 



caespitosa 



(Saxifraga) 



White 



Summer 



Northwest, etc. 



Woodland Star 



Lithophragma 



heterophylla 



White 



Spring, summer 



California 



