SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. Saxifragaceae. 
This is not so tall and the leaves, with 
Alumroot blunt teeth and sometimes slightly lobed, 
Heuchéra 
ANSE are smaller. In Utah they are dark green 
Pink and white and shining on the upper side, smooth or 
Summer slightly downy, with a bristle at the tip 
Southwest, Utah, oF cach lobe, often reddish on the under 
Nev. : : a 2 : 
side, and in Yosemite quite rough, with 
hairs on the edges and veins. The flowers are about a 
quarter of an inch across, the calyx deep-pink, with blunt, 
green teeth, the petals long, narrow and white, the general 
effect of the flower being pink. The clusters are not 
nearly so airy as those of H. micrantha and in the high 
Sierras the stems are shorter and the clusters still more 
compact. This was first found on one of the islands in 
Great Salt Lake. There are other similar kinds, some 
with greenish flowers. 
There are several kinds of Micranthes, perennials, 
sometimes with bulblets at the base of the stem; leaves 
thickish, from the root; flowers white, in terminal clusters; 
petals five, mostly without claws; stamens ten; ovary 
slightly inferior. 
This is conspicuous on account of its 
tire height, with a stout, stiff, leafless, hairy 
Saxifrage 
MisGaihes flower-stalk, three feet or more tall, 
Oregana springing from a loose rosette of smooth, 
(Saxifraga) thickish, bright-green leaves, not stand- 
‘odo ing up stiffly but spreading, sometimes 
Summer : 
Northwest nearly a foot long, paler on the under side 
and obscurely toothed at the ends, with 
some minute hairs along the lower margins. The flowers 
are small, with cream-white petals, orange-red anthers and 
a green ovary, and form a long branching cluster towards 
the top of the stalk. This grows in swamps in the moun- 
tains. 
A little alpine plant, growing in moist 
Spec M Ae soil, or on mossy rocks. The sticky-hairy 
hota baide flower-stem is from two to twelve inches 
(Saxifraga) tall, springing from a cluster of dull- 
White green root-leaves, toothless, or toothed 
Spring, summer towards the ends, slightly thickish and 
Southwest, Idaho, . 
Utah, Col. very slightly downy and the flowers are 
small, and form a compact cluster. 
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