WATSON~- Plants of Bernalillo County 
summit; petals narrowly oblong. Bear Canon, among: 
the spruces. 
43. SAXTFRAGACEAE, (saviFRaGE FAMILY. ) 
Herbs or shrubs of various aspect, distinguished 
from the Rosaceae by having opposite as well as alter- 
nate le aves, usually no stipules, the stamens usually 
definate, and the carpels commonly fewer than the se- 
pals. 
TRIBE I. SAXIFRAGEAE. Herbs with alternate leaves,. 
distinet styles or carpel-lips, and a dry capsular fruit. 
1. Ovary with two or more cells, stamens 10, 
- - - - - SAXIFRAGA. 
2. Ovary 1-celled, stamens 5, - - (2) HEUCHERA. 
TRIBE Il. HYDRANGAEA. Shrubs with opposite simple 
leaves and a 2 or 5-celled capsuular fruit. 
Stamens 20 or more; ovary inferior, 
- WIN - -  - (3) PHILADELPHUS. 
Stamens 8 or 10, ovary supe rior or nearly so. 
(4.) Ovary 1-celled, petals, 5, - -  JAMESIA. 
(5.) Ovary 4-celled, petals 4, - ¥FENDLERA. 
TRIBE Il, RIBESIEAE. Shrubs with alternate sum- 
ple leaves and fruit a berry; calyx tube adnate to the 
1-celled ovary. Sas - By its - RIBES. 
Saxirraca, L. Saxifrage 
Calyx 5-lobed or parted, in ours united to the lower 
part of the ovary. Petals 5 entire. Petioles common- 
ly sheathing at base. Small flowers. 
S. Broncuiatis, LZ. Stem spender, producing 
branchlets; leaves linear rather coriaceous, finely cili- 
ate, mucronate-pointed, crowded below; flowers coryb- 
bose on a long slender bracted peduncle; petals white 
or cream color marked with numerous purplish spots. 
Fir-Aspen Ass., at the head of Pinon Canon, Sandia 
Mountains. Looks like a Stellaria superficially. 
2. Hevucuera, LJ. Alum-root. 
5-cleft calyx bell-shaped. Perennials, with the round 
heart-shaped leaves principally from the rootstock, pe- 
tioles with dilated margins or adherent, stipules at their 
base; greenish or purplish flowers in small clusters in 
a long narrow panicle! petals small, entire. _ 
H. Parviroria, Nutt. Seabrous. Puberulent; 
scape naked, 6 in. to 24feet high; leaves roundish cor- 
date, crenately 5 to 7 lobed; petals minute cadaceous; 
common in the Spruce Soc. of Bear Canon and in other 
mesophytic situations. May. 
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