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6. TELLIMA 



Petals entire; leaves lobate 1. T. scabrella 



Petals cleft into 3-5 lobes; leaves ternate 2. T. bulbifera 



1. Tellima scabrella Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 162. 1891. 



Lithophragma scabrella Greene, Erj'thea, vol. 3, p. 102. 1895. 



Type locality. — "Pine woods south of Tehaehapi, California." 



Range. — Sierra Nevada and Tehaehapi Mountains. 



Zone. — Transition and Canadian. 



No specimen of this species has been seen by me from the higher 

 mountains ; it is here admitted only because HalP°^ reports that it has 

 been collected on the McClure Fork of the Merced River, in the high 

 Sierra above the Yosemite Valley, at 9,500 feet, and therefore well 

 within our limits. 



2. Tellima bulbifera (Rydb.) A. Nels., in Coulter and Nelson, 



New Man., p. 237. 1909. 

 Lithophragma. bulbifera Kydb., N. Am. FL, vol. 22, pt. 2, p. 86. 1905. 



Type locality. — "On the continental divide, at an altitude of 3,000- 

 3,300 meters, at Battle Carbon County, Wyoming. ' ' 



Range. — Wj^oming and Colorado west to the Pacific Coast. 



Zone. — Canadian and Hudsonian. 



Specimens examined. — Desolation Valley, Tahoe, 8,400 feet, Smiley 

 92; south side of Mt. Lola, west of Lake Tahoe, damp soil in shade of 

 rocks, Hall and Babcock 4536 ; Long Lake, Plumas County, 6,800 feet. 

 Hall 9346. 



7. SAXIFRAGA 



Suffrutescent at base, the stems creeping and forming a mat; leaves narrow, 



strap-shaped and revolute 1. S. ledifolia 



Herbaceous throughout, plants erect, not mat-forming; leaves flat, not strap- 

 shaped. 

 Plants annual; stems branching from the base or near it; the flowers solitary 

 and terminal on the divaricate branches of the cyme; inflorescence bulb- 



iferous 2. S. bryophora 



Plants biennial or perennial; stems scapose; inflorescence not bulbiferous. 

 Leaves orbicular, saliently toothed; stamens clavate. 



Plants large; teeth of the leaves simple 3. S. arguta 



Plants smaller; teeth of some of the leaves 3-dentate ....4. S. Mertensiana 

 Leaves ovate or spatulate, entire or repand-dentate; stamens filiform. 

 Flowers in cymules, which are usually aggregated into a head, at least 

 the upper; plants small and delicate. 

 Plants not bulbiferous at base; petals narrowed to a claw below; 



leaves repand 5. S. apnea 



Plants bulbiferous at base; petals clawless; leaves entire 6. S. nidifica 

 Flowers in pyramidal panicles, the lower cymules on elongated, somewhat 



spreading peduncles; plants robust, often of large size 



7. S. integrifoUa var. sierrae 



