394 Piper : Noteworthy Northwestern Plants 



the Kittitas Mts., twenty miles north of Ellensburg. The species 

 is one of the vS. integrifolia group and is easily distinguished by 

 its apetalous flowers and long calyx -tube. 



/ Saxifraga Idahoensis sp. nov. 



x Stems slender, erect, terete, glandular, 2-3 dm. high, usually 

 several from a stout caudex : leaves all radical, the blades ovate, 

 obtuse, coarsely dentate, 2-6 cm. long, abruptly contracted into a 

 broad flat petiole as long as the blade, glabrous or with a few 

 rufescent hairs on the margin and lower side : inflorescence a 

 much-branched cyme, the branches assurgent : flowers numerous, 

 3 mm. in diameter, on slender strongly divaricate pedicels : bracts 

 lanceolate or subulate : calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, free nearly to 

 the base, sharply reflexed even in early anthesis : petals white, or- 

 bicular, scarcely clawed, mostly 3 -nerved toward the apex, not 

 exceeding the calyx-lobes : filaments subulate, persistent, at 

 length exceeding the petals : anthers pinkish : carpels free from 

 each other, divergent above : the style short and stout. 

 All the specimens seen are from western Idaho. 



4< Clearwater,' 1 Rev. Spalding? 



Island in the Clearwater above Lewiston, Sandberg, McDougal 

 and Heller, no. en. Mav 2. 1802. 



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Related to 5. occidentalis Watson and 5. reflexa Hook. Its 

 nearly glabrous leaves, much branched inflorescence and small 

 flowers easily distinguish it. Abnormalities in the structure of the 



flowers are of frequent occurrence. 



Townsendia alpigena sp. nov. 



Perennial, caespitose from a usually multicipital caudex, 2-4 

 cm. high : root stout, vertical : leaves numerous, clustered, spatu- 

 late, acutish, thickened at the margin, appressed strigulose when 

 young, more or less glabrate at maturity, 1-2 cm. long : peduncles 

 one or two bracted, I cm. high, hirtellous : heads solitary on the 

 peduncles, 1 — 1 . 5 cm. in diameter, the involucre campanulate, of 

 about three ranks of well-imbricated scales, these oblong, acute, 

 scarious-margined, more or less pilose on the back, sometimes 

 pink-tinged: rays 12-18, dark blue, linear, acute, 1 cm. long : 

 pappus of the disk-flowers bright white, scabrous, multisetose, as 

 long as the akene, that of the ray-flowers similar, but a trifle 

 shorter : akenes flattened, those of the disk usually glabrous, ex- 



