_Saxifrage Family_
Stemmed or stemless herbs with alternate or sometimes opposite or
more frequently basal leaves; flowers perfect, racemose, cymose or
paniculate; calyx 5-lobed or parted; petals 4 or 5, white, yellow or
greenish or sometimes rose-coloured; stamens equal or twice the number
of the petals; carpels 1—several, distinct or united.
Placentæ parietal.
Flowers solitary and axillary; sepals 4; stamens 4—8.
=Chrysosplenium.=
Flowers in more or less elongated racemes.
Flowers with 2 or 3 equal carpels.
Flower-stalk axial from a bulbiferous rootstock.
=Lithophragma.=
Flower-stalk a lateral shoot from a stout scaly rootstock.
Inflorescence racemose.
Petals pinnately cut or pinnatifid.
Base of the calyx campanulate deeper than the
length of the sepals. =Tellima.=
Base of the calyx saucer-shaped, shallower
than the length of the sepals.
Ovary more than half superior;
disc inconspicuous. =Mitella.=
Ovary wholly inferior, covered with
the prominent disc. =Pectiantia.=