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SAXD7RAGACE.E. 



leave* oblong, scattered; cymes mostly 3-spiked. spreading: terminal flowers decan- 

 drous, the rest octandrous ; stamen* shorter than the linear-lanceolate petali. 



Rocky woods; sometimes cultivated. May, June. «Stew* 3 to 8 inches long, 

 branching and decumbent at base. Leaves from }4 to 1 inch long. Flowers white, 

 loosely arranged on the 3-branched spreading cymes. 



2. S. telephoides, Michx. American Orpine. 



Stems erect, leafy at the top: leaves scattered, lance-orate or oral, flat acute at 

 each end, somewhat toothed, smooth and fleshy : fiowers in a terminal capitate 

 cyme, decandrous; petals orate-lanceolate. 



Rocks: Allegheny mountains. July. Stem branching, 10 to 12 inches high. 

 Zeavts 1 to 2 inches" long, % as wide. Flowers rale purple, with leafy bracta intex- 

 ■penecL 



3. S. TELEPHIUM, L. Common Orpine. Lice-forever 



Stems erect, leafy to the top; leaves fiat, oral, obtuse, serrate, tapering at the 

 bate; cymes dense, compound. Natire of Europe, cultivated and nearly naturali- 

 sed. July. Stems 1 to 2 feet high, simple, leafy, round, smooth, purplish. Leavti 

 eessile. fle'shy. F towers white and purple, in dense terminal leafy tufts. 



4. S. Anacampseros, L. Evergreen Stone-crop. 



Hoot fibrous: stems decumbent; leaves wedge-form, tarring at the base: cymes 

 corymbose, leafy. Native of Europe. July. Stems reddish. Leaves fleshy, bluish- 

 green. Flowers purple. 



5. S. acre ; L. English Moss. JSall Pepper. 



Procumbent, spreading, branching from the base; leaves very small, somewhat 

 ovate, fleshy, crowded, alternate, closely sessile, obtuse; cyme few-flowered, trifid. 

 leafy.' Native of Great Britain. Common in cultivation, spreading very rapidlv 

 on walls, borders of flower beds, <tc. ; densely covering the surface. Flowers yellow 



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PEXTHORUM. Gron. 



Gr.pente, five, and era* a rule or mode; in allusion to the quinary flowers. 



Sepals 5, united at base. Petals d, or none. Stamens 

 10. Pistils 5, united at the base so as to form a 5-angled, 

 5-liorned and 5-celled capsule, which opens transversely on 

 the inner sides of the beaks. Seeds numerous, minute.— 

 Lpright perennials, v: it 'h scattered leaves, and yelloicish-green 

 jlowers loosely-spiked along the upper side of die naked 

 oranches of the scorpoid cyme. 



P. sedoides, L. Ditch Stone-crop. 



Stem branched, angular above; loives alternate, lanceolate, acute at both end* 

 ixnequally serrate. 



Ditches and overflowed grounds: common. Aug., Sept. Stem 12 to 15 inchee 

 high. Flowers pale yellowish-green. 



Order 49. SAXIFRAGACEffi. 



Herbaceous or shrubby plants, with alternate leaves, and simple flower stems (often 

 naked). Calyx free or more or less adherent to the ovary, superior or inferior, 4 

 V) 5-cleft. Petals 5, rarely none. Stamsxe 5 to 10. inserted either into the calyx 

 vr beneath the ovary. Ovaet 1 or 2-celled. Stubs none. Sugjias eeeale, on tfce 



