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SAXIFRAGACEAE 
1. SAXIFRAGA L. Saxifrage 
Perennial herbs with the leaves in a basal cluster, and the flowers on a 
scape-like peduncle. Calyx either free from or attached to the base of 
the ovary. Petals entire. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod 2-celled, 2-beaked, 
or the 2 carpels almost distinct. (Latin saxum, a rock, and frango, to 
break.) 
1. S. californica Greene. Leaves elliptic, serrate, undulate, 1.2 to 4.8 
cm. long; flowers white; calvx-lobes ovate, reflexed; petals roundish, 
often notched, 3 mm. long.—Hill country in rocky places. 
2. TELLIMA R. P,r. 
Perennial herbs with tuber-like rootstocks. Stems simple, bearing a 
simple terminal raceme of white, pink or red flowers. Leaves chiefly 
basal. Calyx campanulate or turbinate, the lower part of tube attached 
to lower part of ovary. Petals inserted in sinuses of calyx, cleft or 
toothed, rarely entire. Stamens 10. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2 or 3, 
short. Pod conical. (Name an anagram of Mitella.) 
Styles commonly 3 ; petals with claws, white or pinkish. 
Lower half of ovary adherent; calyx-tube turbinate.1. T. af finis. 
Ovary almost wholly free ; calyx-tube truncate or rounded at base. 
2. T. heterophylla. 
Styles commonly 2 ; petals sessile, greenish-white, changing to red. 
3. T. grandiflora. 
1. T. affinis (Gray) Boland. Star of Bethlehem. Stems 2 to 3.8 
dm. high; basal leaves roundish, crenately lobed; upper 3-parted, the 
divisions incised or toothed; racemes about 7 to 10-flowered; petals mostly 
3-toothed.—Open ground. 
2. T. heterophylla H. & A. Similar to no. 1; calyx campanulate; 
petals with a stout tooth on each side.—Shady ground. 
3. T. grandiflora (Pursh.) Dough Fringe-cups. Stems 1 to 7 dm. 
high; leaves roundish, cordate at base, shallowly 3 to 5-lobed, serrate or 
crenate, 4.8 to 9.6 cm. broad; raceme many-flowered; calyx inflated- 
campanulate, 8 to 10 mm. long; petals laciniate-pinnatifid.—Moist woods 
near the coast, Santa Cruz Co. and n. 
3. HEUCHERA L. Alum Root 
Perennial herbs with stout rootstocks. Leaves basal, round-cordate, 
lobed. Stems scape-like, bearing a panicle of small white flowers. Calyx- 
tube adnate to lower half of ovary. Petals clawed, entire. Stamens 5. 
Pod 1-celled, 2-beaked. (J. H. Heucher, 1677-1747, a German professor 
of medicine.) 
1. H. micrantha Dough Plants 2.8 to 8.6 dm. high; herbage hairy; 
inflorescence glandular-puberulent; leaves round- or ovate-cordate, ob¬ 
tusely lobed, crenate, 4.8 to 9.6 cm. long, on long petioles; flowers in an 
ample loose panicle; pedicels longer than the flowers; calyx turbinate at 
base, 2 mm. long; petals, stamens and styles exserted.—Near the coast, 
Monterey Co. and n. 
4. WHIPPLEA Torr. 
Slender trailing undershrub with opposite leaves and clusters of small 
white flowers on a terminal naked peduncle. Calyx-tube adnate to lower 
part of ovary. Stamens 10 (8 to 12). Ovary 3 to 5-celled. Pod split- 
