SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. Saxifragaceae. 
three-quarters of an inch across, with white petals, prettily 
slashed. This is sometimes called Star of Bethlehem, but 
that name belongs to an Ornithogalum, grown in gardens. 
The only kind, a perennial, over a foot 
Youth-on-age tall, with a hairy stem bearing a graceful 
Leptaxis Pata 
CARR wand of small flowers, springing from a 
(Tolmiea) cluster of root-leaves, bright green and 
ini eet thin in texture, but roughish and sparsely 
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Wash., Oreg., Cal. hairy. The flowers are about a third of 
an inch long, the calyx, which is the con- 
Spicuous part, dark-purple or pinkish-red and slightly 
irregular, with three large and two small sepals, and the 
petals of the same color, but so narrow that they look like 
long curling filaments. The three stamens are opposite the 
three upper sepals, the ovary is superior and the capsule 
has two long beaks. Young plants often spring from the 
base of the leaf, where it joins the leaf-stalk, and this habit 
gives the common name. This grows in mountain woods 
and is attractive, for though the flowers are dull in color 
they are unusual in form and the leaves are pretty. 
There are a good many kinds of Heuchera, North 
American, difficult to distinguish; perennials, with stout 
rootstocks; leaves mostly from the root; flowers small, in 
clusters; calyx-tube bell-shaped, with five lobes; petals 
small, sometimes lacking, on the throat of the calyx, with 
claws; stamens five, inserted with the petals; ovary partly 
inferior, with two slender styles, becoming two beaks on the 
capsule. 
Rie ae These feathery sprays are so airy and 
Boucboea delicate that they might almost be made 
micrantha of mingled mist and moonshine, blown 
Pinkand white from the waterfalls they love to haunt, but 
rigs ee oe are not so fragile as they look, for the 
clusters of tiny pink and white flowers 
last along time in water. The stem is very slender, rather 
hairy, from one to three feet tall, springing from a cluster 
of roundish leaves, prettily lobed and scalloped, bright 
green, with some white hairs on the backs and on the long 
leaf-stems, often with red veins. The handsome leaves 
and lovely feathery spires are conspicuous, decorative and 
quite common, among mossy rocks in dark, rich mountain 
woods, up to six thousand feet. 
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