Summary

Text from the reverse side of the plate: "PLATE 248. MICHAUX'S SAXIFRAGE. SAXIFRAGA MICHAUXII (LEUCANTHEMIFOLIA). (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY.) Perennial; with a short rootstock; stem erect, hairy, much branched; root-leaves rosulate, on long hirsute petioles, obovate or spatulate, stem-leaves short-petioled, uppermost bract-like, all coarsely laciniate-toothed; flowers in open, compound cymes; petals five, white, three of them heart-shaped at base, the other two narrowed; fruit, two divergent follicles. Saxifrages are not very well-known plants, though abundant in temperate regions in every part of the World. That is, there is very little of poetry and sentiment associated with them--they have missed the written word that gives fame her wings. One European species is, in the language of flowers, the symbol of affection. Doubtless because this kind makes its home on mossy rocks, nestling in the clefts, this idea has become associated with it. Why not give the same meaning to our own rock-growing species? Weighty, if unacknowledged, is the debt of America to the explorers, the men of science of France. Of this debt the plant before us serves as a remembrancer. Saxifraga Michauxii is named after the sturdy French collector and traveler, whose name is so intimately connected with North American plant-lore. A large proportion of our native plants received names at the hands of this old voyageur. Especially is this the case with the flora of the mountain region of the South. Michaux himself named this Saxifrage, Leucanthemifolia; but, as that name had already been given to another species, this one has been recently entitled Saxifraga Michauxii. It is a small plant, growing in cool, springy places in the mountains from Georgia to Virginia, and straying northward. The leaves are deeply cut, though the resemblance to those of the White-weed, which Michaux saw when he named the plant Leucanthemifolia, is not very striking. The flowers are white, rather large for a Saxifrage."

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