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. . 2-4 long, crenate or dentate all around,pubescent with scattered hairs above, glabrate ordowny along the veins beneath ; inflorescence simplyracemose or the lowest pedicels sometimes branched,glandular-puberulent; flowers white, about 3 broad ;petals oblong, entire or slightly dentate, clawed,somewhat exceeding the white calyx-lobes; capsulereflexed, about 3 long, its
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. . 2-4 long, crenate or dentate all around,pubescent with scattered hairs above, glabrate ordowny along the veins beneath ; inflorescence simplyracemose or the lowest pedicels sometimes branched,glandular-puberulent; flowers white, about 3 broad ;petals oblong, entire or slightly dentate, clawed,somewhat exceeding the white calyx-lobes; capsulereflexed, about 3 long, its valves very unequal. In rich moist woods. Nova Scotia to Ontario andMinnesota, south, especially along the mountains, to(jeorgia, Indiana and Michigan, .\scends to 5600 ft. inVirginia. White coolwort. Foam-flower. 12. HEUCHERA L. Sp. PI. 226. or ascending perennial herbs, with mainly basal long-petioled ovate or orbicularleaves, and small paniculate or racemose, white green or purple flowers, on naked or leafy-bracted scapes. Calyx-tube campanulate, often oblique, adnate to the base of the ovary,5-lobed. Petals small, spatulate, often shorter than the calyx-lobes, entire, inserted on the. Genus 12. SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. throat of the calyx. Stamens 5, inserted with the petals. Ovary i-celled; styles 2, =0. Capsule 2-valved, 2-beaked. Seeds minutely hispid or nuiricate. [Named forJohann Heinrich von Heucher, 1677-1747, a German botanist.] .•\bout 70 species, natives of North .ierica and Mexico. Type species: Heuchera amcricana regular or nearly so. Petals with long very slender claws and narrow blades, much exceeding the , at least the larger ones, low rounded lobes. Petioles villous; calyx-lobes ovate, much shorter than the hypanthium during anthesis. I. H, puberulent; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, as long as the hypathium during anthesisor nearly so. 2. //. puberula. Leaves, at least the large
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