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SAXIFRAGA NIDIFICA Greene, Erythea, 1: 222. 1893. 
This rare Sazxifraga has lately been sent me by Mr. E. P. Shel- 
don. The specimens are from Spokane, Washington, altitude 
1,000-2,000 feet and were collected by J. H. Sandberg and J. B. 
Leiberg in May, 1893. Sazifraga nivalis (no. 1819) of Mr. Co- 
ville’s Death Valley report, apparently belongs here, as does also 
Torrey’s 155, collected in the Yosemite Valley and Mountains, 
California, in 1865. : 
SAXIFRAGA PLANTAGINEA N. sp. 
Perennial by a thick rootstock, stout, scapose, glandular-pilose; 
leaves elliptic or elliptic-spatulate, 6-10 cm. long, obtuse, undulate 
or distantly and shallowly toothed, leathery, ciliate, 5-7-ribbed, 
narrowed into a winged petiole, which is usually much shorter than 
the blade; scape erect, 2-4 dm. tall, sparingly branched near the 
top, the branches subtended by elliptic bracts; flowers greenish, 
in dense cymules; calyx flat, its segments ovate, 3.5 mm. long, 
obtuse, 3-nerved, longer than the tube ; petals suborbicular-oblong 
or some inclined to be broadly spatulate, 2~-2.5 mm. long, green- 
ish, shorter than the calyx-segments, obtuse, marked with a mid- 
nerve and several branches, narrowed into a broad claw; filaments 
converging, subulate, shorter than the petals; ovaries immersed 
in a lobed disk ; fruit not seen. 
Spokane, Washington, at 600-1,000 meters altitude ; collected 
by J. B. Leiberg and J. H. Sandberg, in May, 1893. Communi- 
cated by Mr. E. P. Sheldon. 
A fine species with leaves strongly resembling those of some 
of the broader-leaved Plantagos. The plant is very different 
from anything heretofore known in the genus Saaifraga. It 
is related to S. integrifolia. The broad greenish petals, which are 
exceeded by the calyx, serve to separate the species from all its — : 
relatives. 
SAXIFRAGA SIERRAE (Coville). 
Saxifraga integrifolia Sierrae Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7* 
78. 1892. : 
Saxifraga Oregana Howell, Erythea, 3: 34. 1895. 
As Mr. Howell points out, Saxifraga integrifolia has been 4 
composite species. Mr. Coville dwells on the differences inthe 
leaves of Saxifraga Sierrae and S. integrifolia ; these differences are 
much more marked in specimens collected later by Mr. Howell, 
