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petiole wiry, dilated into a scarious ribbed base;  inflor- 
escence consisting of a terminal thyrsoid-panicle, its cymules 
peduncled ; subtended by small bracts; pedicels usually bearing 
several opposite or nearly opposite bractlets below the flowers; 
flowers white, rather crowded; calyx hemispheric, its tube rib- 
bed, united to the ovary, its segments five, unequal in size and 
shape, reflexed; petals five, inserted just below the sinuses of 
the calyx tube, long-clawed, at length deflexed; stamens ten, con- 
verging ; filaments inserted at the bases of the calyx segments, di- 
lated below into two thin wings ; anthers ovoid-sagitate or broadly- 
oblong-sagitate, four-angled especially when old; ovary very short 
when young, soon elongating, immersed in a red glandular disk; 
placenta central; follicles slender, the bodies united, the tips erect, 
seeds minute, smooth, somewhat curved. 
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I. SAXIFRAGOPSIS FRAGARIOIDES ( Greene ). 
Saxifraga fragarioides Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, 8: 121. 1881. 
Rootstock horizontal, stout, woody, I-15 cm. long, covered by 
the dilated, membranous bases of old petioles; stems somewhat 
scape-like, erect or ascending, 1-3 dm. high, strict or flexuous 
above, bearing several leaves which are smaller but otherwise simi- 
lar to the lower ones; leaves thin, cuneate or cuneate-obovate, 
1-5 cm. long, rounded and coarsely toothed at the apex entire be- 
low the middle, sparingly ciliate, dark green above, paler beneath, 
marked with several palmately radiating nerves, obtuse at the 
base, on slender petioles 2-3 cm. long, flowers greenish, 6 mm. 
broad, in dense panicled cymules whose branches are subtended by 
linear entire or toothed bracts ; calyx hemispheric, its tube united 
to the overies, ‘its segments longer than the tube or at length 
shorter, ovate, ciliate, obtuse, relexed when dry; petals oblong- 
spatulate or spatulate, persistent, ¥Y% longer than the sepals; at. 
length reflexed; filaments filiform-subulate; follicles narrowly 
conic, 6-7 mm. high, red, united only % from base, the summits 
erect; seeds oblong or obvoid,.5 mm. long, smooth. (Plate 25 a 
Original locality, « High mountains west of Mt. Shasta, Cali- 
fornia.” 
High altitudes in the mountains of Northern California and 
Southern Oregon; Cliffs overhanging Castle Lake, Siskyiou 
county, California and top of the Siskyiou Mountains near Waldo, 
Oregon. : 
