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SAXIFRAGE FAMILY, Saxifragaceae. 
Modesty The only kind, a pretty little under- 
Whipplea modésta Shrub, with many woody stems, spreading 
White and trailing on the ground, the branches 
Spring 
clothed with more or less hairy leaves, 
with three veins, and bearing clusters of 
very small flowers, with a pleasant honey-like fragrance. 
They usually have ten stamens, the ovary is partially 
inferior, with from three to five styles; sepals whitish; 
petals white, becoming greenish. The low masses of green 
foliage, spotted with white flower clusters, are a pretty 
feature of the Coast Range forests and thickets, especially 
among redwoods. 
There are several kinds of Mitella, perennials, of North 
America and Asia. 
An inconspicuous little plant, of moun- 
tain woods, with pretty leaves and tiny 
Wash., Oreg., Cal. 
Bishop’s Cap, 
Mitrewort - 
Mitélla ovélis flowers. The slender, hairy, leafless stem, 
White about ten inches tall, springs from a 
Summer cluster of root-leaves, smooth on the 
ee and —=_ upper side, except for a few bristly hairs, 
with bristly hairs on the under veins and 
on the long, slender leaf-stalks. The flowers grow in a 
graceful, one-sided spray and have a five-lobed, green 
calyx, five minute petals, five stamens with short filaments, 
and a roundish ovary, almost wholly inferior. The petals 
have pretty little bits of feathery fringe between them, 
which make the little flowers look like tiny snow crystals 
in shape, when we examine them closely. 
There are several kinds of Spatularia, perennials, 
sometimes with bulblets; leaves from the root, mostly 
toothed; flowers white, in open clusters; sepals five; petals 
all clawed, the three upper differing from the two lower; 
ovary chiefly superior. 
A beautiful plant, with such slender 
pms stems and branches that, at a distance, 
Sachease the little white flowers look like specks of 
Nutkana) foam. The hairy, reddish stems, from a 
(Saxifraga few inches to over a foot tall and very 
wa branching, spring from clusters of thickish, 
White : : 
a stiffish, hairy root-leaves and bear dozens 
Northwest of flowers, about three-eighths of an inch 
across, with white petals, spotted with 
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