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98 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



plants. Nearly all the flower buds except the terminal ones are transformed into ro- 

 settes of sin all leaves and are capable of independent growth. Some of I he leaves of 

 our specimens, although in no instance exceeding 20 mm. in length, are denticulate 

 above. It therefore seems probable that this species may be found to iutergrade 

 with the West-American form, at least, of S. leucanthemifoUa. Engler, in his mono- 

 graph of the genus, reduces it to a variety of that species. Our specimens were col- 

 lected near Mineral King, in the Sierra Nevada (No. 1502). 



Saxifraga integrifolia sierrae Coville, I'roc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 78 (1892). Type 

 locality as given below. 



" Blades of larger leaves 8 to 12 cm. long, oblong-lanceolate to elliptical-lanceolate, 

 acute, conspicuously serrate-denticulate, from glabrous to sparingly clammy-hairy 

 above and beneath, thinner and more distinctly veined than in the type; petiole 

 and margin of the loaf toward the base ciliate with clammy hairs; otherwise as the 

 type form. 



"Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1705, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected August 25, 1891, about 8 miles northwest of Whitney Meadows, 

 on the headwaters of Kern River, Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California, by Fred- 

 erick V. Coville. 



" The species was described from specimens collected by Scouler 'near the mouth 

 of the Columbia, northwest coast of America,' and is excellently figured. Speci- 

 mens collected in later years in the same region agree with Hooker's description and 

 figure in being viscid-pubescent throughout, and in having the leaves oblong, entire, 

 obtuse, and scarcely exceeding 3.5 cm. in length. None of the specimens from the 

 Sierra Nevada resemble the type form, but a good series of intergrades exist between 

 the two regions and in the Rocky Mountains where the variety occurs also. The 

 Sierran plant appears never to have been described except in the Botany of Cali- 

 fornia, where the description of the type form is varied to include it. In Dr. Gray's 

 conspectus of the species of Saxifraga it is not distinguished from Hooker's plant." 



Saxifraga nivalis L. Sp. PI. i. 401 (1753) Type localities, "in summis Alpibus, 

 Spitzbergensibus, Lapponicis, Arvonicis, Virginia, Canada." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1519). Our specimens have entire or denticu- 

 late leaves, a scape about 15 cm. high, and ouly slightly oxpauded inflorescence. 



Saxifraga punctata L. Sp. PI. i. 40L (1753). Type locality, "in Siberia." 

 Near Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1698). 



Boykinia major Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 196 (1876). Type locality, "in Oregon." 

 Gray's B. ooddentalis data (Proc. Amer. Acad. viii. 383) was collected by Hall in 

 Oregon, and is taken as the type specimen of the species. Nuttall's Saxifraga data 

 proved lator to be the same as Torrey and Gray's B, octiden talis. 



Yosemite Valley (No. 1853). 



Tellima bolanderi (Gray) Proc. Amer. Acad. vi. 535 (18(55), under Lithophragma; 

 liolaud. Cat. 11 (1870). Type locality, "California, in a shady ravine, S. E. of 

 Monte Diablo, and farther north in the Mendocino district." 



Valley of Kaweah River (No. 1337). Determined by II. E. Seaton 



Tellima tenella (Nutt.) in Torr. & Gr. PI. i. 584 (1840), under Lithophragma; 

 Walp. Rept. ii. 371 (1843). Type locality, " in the central range of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, on the banks of the Big Sandy and Siskadee Rivers of the Colorado of the 

 West, about lat. 42°," in southwestern Wyoming. 



In the high Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1523, 2113). It is of considerable historical in- 

 terest to kuow that Robert Brown's authorship of this genus rests on his insertion 

 of "Telliinam" in the following sentence in his addenda to Franklin's Narrative, 

 p. 765 (1823) : "In ordine Saxifragearum locus Heuchera* est inter Mittclam grand i- 



