SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. Saxffragaceae. 



This is not so tall and the leaves, with 



blunt t6eth and sometimes sli S ntl y !obed, 

 rubescens are smaller. In Utah they are dark green 



Pink and white and shining on the upper side, smooth or 

 Summer slightly downy, with a bristle at the tip 



Southwest, Utah, Q ach lobe> of teQ reddish Qn th( under 



side, and in Yosemite quite rough, with 

 hairs on the edges and veins. The flowers are about a 

 quarter of an inch across, the calyx deep-pink, with blunt, 

 green teeth, the petals long, narrow and white, the general 

 effect of the flower being pink. The clusters are not 

 nearly so airy as those of H. micrantha and in the high 

 Sierras the stems are shorter and the clusters still more 

 compact. This was first found on one of the islands in 

 Great Salt Lake. There are other similar kinds, some 

 with greenish flowers. 



There are several kinds of Micranthes, perennials, 

 sometimes with bulblets at the base of the stem; leaves 

 thickish, from the root; flowers white, in terminal clusters; 

 petals five, mostly without claws; stamens ten; ovary 

 slightly inferior. 



This is conspicuous on account of its 

 height, with a stout, stiff, leafless, hairy 

 flower-stalk, three feet or more tall, 

 Oregana springing from a loose rosette of smooth, 



(Saxifraga) thickish, bright-green leaves, not stand- 



ing up stifHy but spreading, sometimes 

 Northwest nearly a foot long, paler on the under side 



and obscurely toothed at the ends, with 

 some minute hairs along the lower margins. The flowers 

 are small, with cream-white petals, orange-red anthers and 

 a green ovary, and form a long branching cluster towards 

 the top of the stalk. This grows in swamps in the moun- 

 tains. 



A little alpine plant, growing in moist 

 Saxifrage soil Qr Qn mossy roc k s . The sticky- hairy 



Micr&nthes . . 



rhomboidea flower-stem is from two to twelve inches 



(Saxifraga) tall, springing from a cluster of dull- 



White green root-leaves, toothless, or toothed 



Spring, summer towards the ends s H g htly thickish and 

 Southwest, Idaho, 

 Utah Col very slightly downy and the flowers 



small, and form a compact cluster. 

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