444; Bigel.! fl. Bost. ed. 2.p. 177 ; Seringe! in DC. 1. c. ; Hoolc.fi. Bor.-
Avn. 1 • p• 249 ; JDarlingt.fi. Cest.p. 270. S. Pennsylvania, floribus mus-
cosis See. Dill. Elth. t. 253, ƒ. 328. S. semipubescens, Don. 1. c. ? Mi-
cranthes Pennsylvanica, M. hieracifolia, & M. semipubescens ? Haw. enum.
Sem.fr. 1. c.
a. cymes dense, the flowers at first conglomerate.
0. cymes loose, forming an open panicle.
In bogs, Canada ! and Northern States ! to Virginia! and Ohio. May.__
Leaves 4-8 inches long, rather membranaceous, pale green, slightly ciliate.
Scape sometimes weak, about 2 feet high, but commonly stout and at length
3-4 feet high. Flowers small, greenish; the petals yellowish : anthers purplish
orange color. r
31. S. erosa (Pursh): nearly glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute,
erosely-toothed; stem naked; panicle oblong, with divaricate loosely-
flowered branches; pedicels filiform.—Pursh, fl. 1 . p. 311; Don, Saxifr.
1. e. p. 360 ? J
“ In stony rivulets on the high mountains of Virginia and Carolina. June
—Juiy. Resembles the foregoing (S. Pennsylvanica) in some respects very
much.’’ Pursh.—We have seen a mere fragment of Pursh’s plant in the
herbarium of the late Prof. Barton, and a still more imperfect specimen in
M.r. Lambert s herbarium, from which it appears that the species is much
Tnorf; allied to S. Pennsylvanica than to any other; but we greatly doubt
whether the cultivated plant described by Don, (or by Seringe in De Candolle’s
Prodromus) is the same with that of Pursh. Hence we have retained
the original phrase of the latter author, and leave the species for farther observation.
32. S. hieracifolia (Waldst- Se Kit.): scape strict, a little hairy ; leaves
petioled, obovate-spatulate, repandly-toothed, ciliate, coriaceous; flowers
spicate, subsessile; lobes of the calyx ovate, broad, as long as the tube;
petals ovate (reddish), marcescent, scarcely as long as the calyx ; filaments
purple ; capsules prominent, purple; carpels divaricate at the apex; styles
very short; stigmas somewhat hemispherical. Seringe__“ Waldst. Sr Kit.
pi. rar. Hung. 1. p. 17, <.18”; Sternh. rev. Saidfr. p. 9, 8c suppl. p. 5 ; Don,
Saxifr. 1. c. p. 383; Seringe, in DC. prodr. 4. p. 38. S. plantaginifolia,
Hook. ! in Parry's 2nd voy. suppl. p. 394.
Arctic America, from Greenland and the Arctic Islands! to Kotzebue’s
Sound ! and the Bay of Eschscholtz.—It appears, as Hooker remarks, exactly
intermediate between S. Pennsylvanica and S. nivalis, more allied
however, to the former. 3 *
33. S. integrifolia (Hook.): very viscidly pubescent throughout; leaves
all radical, ovate, very obtuse, entire, or very slightly sinuate-crenate, somewhat
membranaceous (copiously reticulately veined) ; scape elongated,
naked, paniculate at the apex; panicle loose, broad or contracted, bracteate ■
petals obovate, twice the length of the glabrous spreading or at length reflexed
segments of the calyx; stamens short; ovary free; styles widely
divergent. Hook. ! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 249, t. 86.
Near the mouth of the Oregon River, Dr. Scouler ! Mr. Tolmie! Nuttall!
—Caudex somewhat woody. _ Leaves short in proportion to the height of the
plant. Scape 6—12 inches high, quite leafless. Primary branches of the
panicle elongated, naked; the cymules either compact or quite loose.__Our
specimens all differ from the above specific character, as copied from Hooker,
in the quite veinless leaves : in this and every other respect they fully
accord with his excellent figure; whence we conclude that the phrase ‘ ‘ com-
ose reticulatim venosis," was introduced by mistake. 1
§ 8. Caudex above the ground none: stem annual, leafy: bracts at the base
o f the pedicels often geminate: calyx free, or adherent to the base of the
ovary: the sepals erect or spreading: filaments subulate.—Nephrophyllum,
Gaud.; Koch.
34. S. cernua (Linn.): nearly glabrous, not glutinous; stem weak, simple
or branching; lower leaves reniform, broadly toothed or lobed; the upper
ones bearing little bulbs in their axils ; flowers often solitary, terminal, pendulous
; sepals oblong-lanceolate, nearly distinct; petals obovate-oblong, or
obovate and retuse, longer than the calyx; styles imperfect, deformed.
Seringe.—Linn.! spec. 1. p. 403, 8f fl. Lapp. t. 2, ƒ. 4 ; Engl. bot. t. 664 ;
Wahl. fl. Lapp. p. 116 ; Don, Saxifr. 1. c. p. 364; Seringe ! in DC. prodr.
4. p. 36 ; R. B r.! in Parry's 1st voy. suppl. p. 275 ; Hook! fl. Bor.-Am. 1.
p. 245, Sf bot. Beechey, p. 124. (excl. /?.)
Islands and shores of the Arctic S ea ! from Greenland to Behring’s Straits;
and on the Rocky Mountains, {Drummond).—Flowers white.
35. S. Sibirica (Linn.) : stem filiform, ascending, weak; radical leaves
reniform, palmately 7-lobed, petiolate, a little hairy, the lobes ovate ; those
of the stem sessile; peduncles elongated, naked; segments of the calyx
linear-ovate, striate, glabrous ; petals cuneiform-obovate; styles shorter than
the ovary. Seringe.—Linn. spec. {ed. 2) p. 577; Sternb. rev. Saxifr. t. 25;
Don, Saxifr. 1. c. p. 365 ; Seringe, in DC. 1. c. S. cernua /?. multiflora,
Hook. Sf Am. ! bot. Beechey, p. 124, ex Am . mss.
Labrador & Newfoundland, Pursh. Kotzebue’s Sound, Capt. Beechey !
—Flowers white.
36. S. elegans (Nutt.! mss.): “ annual, glabrous; stem erect, with
numerous slender branches, leafy; leaves (small) ovate or oval, 2-3-toothed;
the lowermost roundish, on short petioles; the upper ones acute at the base,
scarcely petioled; flowers paniculate, numerous; the peduncles slender,
divaricate, naked ; tube of the calyx about the length of the lanceolate-ovate
segments, coherent with the base of the ovary; petals oblong (white with
delicate red veins), sessile, more than twice the length of the calyx-segments;
styles shorter than the ovary; seeds striate with scabrous ridges.
“ On moist rocks by springs, on the banks of the Oregon below and near
the Wahlamet, abundant. June-July.—A very elegant and distinct species,
the stem about a span high, often branching nearly from the base, with
numerous [rather small] flowers; the pedicels often nearly an- inch long.”
Nuttall.—The leaves are only 3-4 lines in length; and tube of the calyx is
in flower almost free from the ovaries, but is adherent when the fruit
ripens.
37. iS. exilis (Stephan): caespitose; rootlets capillary; radical leaves
palmately 5-lobed, petioled; eauline ones linear, entire; petals obovate-
oblong, much longer than the 5-cleft calyx. Seringe.—Stephan, in Sternb.
rev. Saxifr. suppl. p. 8, t. 3, ƒ. 1; DC. 1. c. ; Chamisso, in Linneea, 6.
p. 556.
Island of St. Lawrence, Behring’s Straits, &c. Chamisso. Kotzebue’s
Sound, Fischer (in DC.)—Stem weak, 1-2-flowered. Petals white. Seringe.
—Hooker asks if this may not be a state of S. cernua.
38. S. Laurentiana (Seringe): stems numerous, from one root; radical
leaves on long petioles, reniform, crenately 5-7-lobed, reticulately veined,
glabrous ; flowering stems and peduncles clothed with long intricate hairs •
flowers few, somewhat capitate; bracts somewhat involucrate, 3-5-lobed •