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3. S. triphyllum (Haw.) S. F. Gray. (See Rhodora 11:46. 1909. 5". purpureum 

 of Gray's Man., ed. 7. 5". Telephium of Cayuga Fl.) Live-forever. 



A weed on dry roadsides and banks, and in fields, in gravelly or sandy soils ; fre- 

 quent. Aug.-Sept. 



White Church; road near South Hill Marsh; s. of Peruville; "thoroughly estab- 

 lished along the rocky banks of the lake shore, south of L. Ridge and elsewhere ; 

 sometimes becoming a great pest in cultivated fields, east of Ithaca" (D.) ; and 

 elsewhere. 



Que. to Ont., southw. to Md. and Mich. Naturalized from Eurasia. 



[S. roseum (L.) Scop. (Probably S. tclephioides of Dudley and other writers on 

 N. Y. botany.) 



Not yet found in the Cayuga Lake Basin, but should occur here on limy cliffs. 

 Reported from "Seneca Lake" in Sartwell's Catalogue (D.), by Prof. J. Hall in 

 Torrey's Flora of N. Y ., 1 : 252, 1843, and by S. H. Wright in Rept. Cab. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., 22: 102, 1869; also reported from Chittenango Falls (see House, Rept. N. Y. 

 State Bot., 1914, and Bui. N. Y. State Mus. 254, 1924, for history of that station), 

 and collected there by the present authors. The plant was found at the entrance to 

 Watkins Glen, where it is frequent, by L. F. Randolph in 1918. This may be the 

 Seneca Lake station cited above. These are the only records available of the occur- 

 rence of this plant in N. Y. State. 



Greenland and Lab., southw. along the coast to e. Maine, cent. N. Y., and the 

 Delaware River, Pa. Found also in Eurasia.] 



62. SAXIFRAGACEAE (Saxifrage Family) 



a. Fruit capsular or follicular ; herbs. 

 b. Carpels 2 ; staminodia wanting. 



c. Petals present ; ovary in part superior ; bracts not leaf-like. 

 d. Capsule 2-celIed, 2-beaked ; placentae axial ; petals entire. 



1. Saxifraga 

 d. Capsule 1-celled, often 2-beaked; placentae parietal or basal. 

 e. Petals entire; capsule unequally valved. 2. Tiarella 



e. Petals pinnatifid; capsule depressed, equally valved. 3. Mitella 

 c. Petals wanting; ovary wholly inferior; bracts round, leaf-like. 



4. Chrysosplenium 

 b. Carpels 3-4; capsule 1-celled; staminodia present, glandular, alternating with 

 the stamens. 5. Parnassia 



a. Fruit a berry, 1-celled; shrubs with palmately lobed leaves; ovary wholly inferior. 



6. Ribes 

 1. Saxifraga (Tourn.) L. 



a. Plant scapose ; leaves in a basal rosette, broad. 



b. Sepals reflexed ; petals greenish or reddish, small ; plant tall, 30-60 cm. high ; 



leaves large, 10-30 cm. long, entire. 1. S. pennsylvanica 



b. Sepals not reflexed; petals white, larger, exceeding the calyx; plant low, 5-30 



cm. high ; leaves small, 2-7 cm. long, crenate. 2. S. virginiensis 



a. Plant not scapose; leaves scattered, linear, entire or spinulose-serrate ; petals 



yellow. 3. S. aizoides 



1. S. pennsylvanica L. Swamp Saxifrage. 



Low mucky meadow land or swampy woods, in acid and subacid soils, in gravelly 

 or sandy regions ; frequent. May 15-30. 



Headwaters Swamp; West Branch Creek, Newfield; Larch Meadow (D. !) ; 

 Indian Spring marsh (D. !) ; e. of Slaterville; Ellis Hollow; Ringwood; Mud Creek, 

 Freeville; Malloryville Bog; and elsewhere. 



Me. to Ont. and Minn., southw. to Va., Iowa, and Mo.; less frequent on the Coastal 

 Plain. 



