SAXIFRAGACEH, (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) 55 
OrprR CALYCANTHACEAZ, is represented by Calycanthus occidentalis, Hook. 
& Arn,, an erect shrub 6 to 12 ft. high, with opposite entire lanceolate leaves, 3 to 6 
inches long and large solitary livid or purplish red flowers; sepals and petals numerous, 
linear-spatulate. The common name of the Eastern species—Sweet-Scented Shrub—ia 
scarcely applicable to our species. 
Oxprr 22. SAXIFRAGACEZ:. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees, distinguished from Rosacee by albuminous seeds; usually 
by definite stamens, not more than twice the number of the calyx-lobes; commonly by 
the want of stipules; sometimes by the leaves being opposite; and in most by the partial 
or complete union of the 2 to 5 carpels into a compound ovary. Seeds usually indefinite 
or numerous. Petals and stamens on the calyx. Styles inclined to be distinct. Only 
the Hydrangiew have many stamens, 
Tribe 1, SAXIFRAGEZ, Herbs, leaves mostly alternate and without distinct 
stipules. Styles or tips of the carpels distinct. Fruit capsular or follicular. 
* Ovary with 2 or rarely more cells, or of as many distinct carpels. 
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** Ovary 1-celled. 
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Stamens:10,exsertedi,3, vases. secs sos se esse eee Wide Gene stone eee eee eee a4 Tiarella. 4 
Stamens:5; and styles 2 ji scsississ.eseinainaresieoresi paces aainalsieveliee sie cteneaces Heuchera. 5 
Tribe 2. HYDRANGIEZ. Shrubs, leaves opposite, simple, no stipules. Fruit 
capsular. 
A tall shrub. Large white flowers............ccceeseceeseeccecens Philadelphus, 6 
Low, scarcely shrubby. Small flowers.........cceseceecceesevecenece Whipplea. 7 
Tribe 3. GROSSULARIEZ. Shrubs, leaves alternate with stipules adnate to the 
petiole or wanting. Fruit a berry. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the Ovary ..< +02 sacccseresdenednressseeneea see eeie.s Ribes. 8 . 
1. SAXIPRAGA, L, SaxIFRAGE. 
Calyx 5-lobed, free, or its tube coherent with the lower part of the ovary. Petals 5. 
Fruit of 2 follicles, or a 2-lobed capsule.—In our spéties stemless; flowers white. 
1. S. Virginiensis, Michx. Leaves thickish, oblong-ovate to spatulate-obovate, 
coarsely toothed or almost entire, an inch or two long and the margined petiole often as 
long; scape viscid pubescent, 4 to 12 inches high, at length loosely many flowered in a 
paniculate cyme; flowers, small white. 
