DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 27 



II. SAXIFRAGA, SAXIFRAGE. 



Herbs witli simple or palmately cut leaves and generally 

 cymose or panicled flowers. Sepals 5, more or less united. 

 Petals 6, entire, inserted on the calyx-tube. Stamens 10. 

 Capsule consisting of two (sometimes more) ovaries, united at 

 the base, separate and diverging above. 



a. (S. ViRGiNiENSis), Early Saxifrage, Mayflower. Stem- 

 less, with a cluster of spatulate, obovate, or wedge-shaped root-leaves 

 and a scape 3-9 inches high, which bears a dense cluster of small, 

 white flowers, becoming at length a panicled cyme ; petals white, 

 oblong, much longer than the calyx. Perennial. 



b. (S. Pennsylvanica), Swamp Saxifrage. Leaves 4-8 in. 

 long, oblong-lanceolate and tapering to the base, slightly toothed ; 

 scape 1-2 ft. high, bearing an oblong cluster of small, greenish 

 flowers, at length diffusely panicled ; petals linear-lanceolate, hardly 

 longer than the calyx-lobes. Perennial. 



ni. MITELLA, MITREWOET, BISHOP'S CAP, FRINGE 

 CUP, FAIRY CUP. 



Delicate perennial herbs. Mowers small, pretty, in a 

 simple raceme or spike. Calyx 5-cleft, adnate to the base of 

 the ovary. Petals 5, cut-fringed, inserted on the throat of the 

 calyx- tube. Stamens 5 or 10, not projecting from the calyx- 

 tube. Styles 2, very short. Ovary and pod 2-beaked, globu- 

 lar, 1-celled. 



(M. diphylla). Two-leaved Bishop's Cap. Stemless, with 

 long-petioled, roundish cordate rooWeaves, and a scape about 1 ft. 

 high bearing two opposite, nearly sessile leaves ; flowers many, 

 racemed, white. 



ROSACEiE, EOSE FAMILY. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate leaves, with stipules, 

 and regular flowers. Sepals usually 6, more or less united, 

 often alternating with bractlets. Petals 6, rarely none, in- 

 serted on the calyx (Fig. 163, 1). Stamens usually indefinite, 

 unconnected, inserted with the petals. Pistils 1-many, dis- 



