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. . ]Miclix.) Small. Early Saxifrage. Fig. 2158. Saxifraga virginiensis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : j6o. virginiensis Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 501. 1903. Scape viscid-pubescent, 4-i2 high, naked, orwith a few bracts at the base of the obovate, or oval with a spatulate base,narrowed into a margined petiole, dentate orcrenate, obtuse or acutish at th
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. . ]Miclix.) Small. Early Saxifrage. Fig. 2158. Saxifraga virginiensis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : j6o. virginiensis Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 501. 1903. Scape viscid-pubescent, 4-i2 high, naked, orwith a few bracts at the base of the obovate, or oval with a spatulate base,narrowed into a margined petiole, dentate orcrenate, obtuse or acutish at the apex, I-jong or longer; inflorescence cymose, at lengthloo.^e and paniculate with the lower peduncleselongated; flowers white, regular, 2-3 broad;calyx-lobes erect, triangular or triangular-ovate,much shorter than the oblong-spatulate, obtusepetals; ovary nearly free from the calyx; carpelsnearly separate, the follicles at length widelydivergent. In dry or rocky woodlands, New Brunswick toMinnesota, south to Georsria and Tennessee. .As-cends to 3500 ft. in Virginia. March-May. Formswith 15 stamens occur on New York Island, andwith green petals in Essex Mass. Spring-saxi-frage, May-flower. Sweet wilson. Genus 4. SAXIFRAGE FAMILY 4. Micranthes pennsylvanica (L.) Haw. Pennsylvania or SwampSaxifrage. Fig. 2159. S, pennsylvanica L. Sp. PI. 399. Forbesii Vasey, Am. Entom. & Bot. 2: 288. ^ii«^3/z(i«ira Enum. 45, 1821. Scape stout, terete, viscid-pubescent,i°-3J° high, bracted at the large, oval, ovate, obovate or ob-lanceolate, pubescent or glabrate, 4-iolong, 1Y-3 wide, obtuse at the apex, nar-rowed at the base into a broad petiole, themargins denticulate or repand; cymes in anelongated open panicle; flowers greenish,regular, \l-2\ broad; calyx-tube nearlyfree from the ovary, its lobes ovate, ob-tusish, reflexed. one-half shorter than thelanceolate or linear-lanceolate petals; fila-ments subulate or fih
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