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ROMANZOFFIA SITCHENSIS. 
Native of North-West America. 
Nat. Ord. Hyproteaces.—Tribe NamMex. 
Genus Romanzorria, Cham. ; (Ohoisy in DC. Prodr., vol. x. p. 185). 
RomANzorr1a sitchensis ; tota pilis crispulis aspersa, foliis reniformi-cordatis 
suborbiculatisve crenato-lobatis, cymis laxifloris. 
RomanzorFia sitchensis, Chamiss. in Linnea, vol. ii. p. 609 ; Bongard Bot. 
Sitch., p. 41; t.4; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., vol. ii. p. 103; Ledeb. Flor. 
Ross., vol. iii. p. 181; Regel Gartenfl., vol. xxii. (1873) p. 33, t. 7 48. 
This very rare and interesting little plant, with the habit 
of a Saxifrage of the granulata group, 1s closely allied to the 
majestic Wigandia of our subtropical gardens, though so 
dissimilar in stature, habit, and general characters, and in 
coming from so different a climate and country. It is a 
native of a few distant spots over a very wide range of 
country in North-Western America, and has been gathered 
by very few collectors. First, by the late venerable Menzies, 
the Naturalist to Vancouver’s voyage (and introducer of 
Araucaia imbricata) in May, 1793, who discovered a small 
slender variety of it on hanging rocks at Trinidad, in California, . 
lat. 41° 10' N.; next by Chamisso at Sitka in the then — 
Russian, but now American territory of Alaschka, fully _ 
1000 miles north of Trinidad, and by whom it was first 
described ; more lately it was gathered abundantly by Dr. 
Lyall on the Cascade Mountains, in lat. 69° N. in the bed 
of the Sallse: river, and a large flowered variety (Regel’s 
R. grandiflora) on the same mountains, at an elevation of 7000 
feet. Lastly we have specimens collected in South California 
(probably in the mountains), in lat. 35°, by Dr. Bigelow, 
surgeon to Lieutenant Whipple’s exploration for a railway 
route across America in 1853-4; this is fully 1400 miles south 
of Sitka. 
Romanzofia sitchensis is a rock-plant, easy of cultivation, 
JULY Isr, 1874, 
