An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . g tips,mostly included in the calyx-tube. [Latin, referring to the moss-like growth of the plants.] About 35 species, most abundant on high mountains and in boreal regions. Type species:Saxifraga muscoidcs Wulf. I. Muscaria caespitosa (L.) Haw. Tufted 2168. Saxifraga caespitosa L. Sp. PI. 404. 1753. Muscaria caespitosa Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 37. 1821. Dense
An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian; 2nd ed. . g tips,mostly included in the calyx-tube. [Latin, referring to the moss-like growth of the plants.] About 35 species, most abundant on high mountains and in boreal regions. Type species:Saxifraga muscoidcs Wulf. I. Muscaria caespitosa (L.) Haw. Tufted 2168. Saxifraga caespitosa L. Sp. PI. 404. 1753. Muscaria caespitosa Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 37. 1821. Densely tufted, leaves clustered at the base, spatulate orfan-shaped, 3-9 long, deeply 3-5-cleft or lobed into linearobtuse segments, glabrous; flowering stem erect, 2-8 high,viscid-pubescent, at least above, linear-bracted or with several3-lobed leaves; flowers 1-8, corymbose. 4-7 broad, white;calyx-lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse or obtusish, much shorterthan the obovate petals; capsule-tips divergent; base of thecapsule adnate to the calyx. On rocks, Quebec. Labrador and Newfoundland, west througharctic .\merica to Alaska, south to Oregon and in the RockyMountains to Colorado, Also in arctic and alpine Europe andSiberia. Genus 8. SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. 223 8. CHONDROSEA Haw. Saxifr. Enum. 10. 1821. Perennial herbs, with dcnsL-ly leafy short caiidices and offsets and sparingly leafyflower-stems, and alternate serrate leaves with each tooth wdiite-encrusted, the flowers interminal compound cymes. Calyx-lobes S, erect. Corolla white or sometimes colored,regtilar, the petals broad, clawless. Stamens 10; filaments lanceolate to about one-half inferior, the carpels united to above the middle. Follicles united upto the more or less spreading tips. [Greek, referring to the of the leaves.] About 9 species, most abundant in the mountains of middle Europe. Type species : Chondroseapyramidalis Maw. I. Chondrosea Aizoon (Jacq.) Haw. Livelong Saxifrage 2169.
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