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Bolander 5043 ; peak near Mt. Dana, 9,000 feet. Brewer 1807 ; Dana 

 Fork meadows, Yosemite, 9,700 feet. Smiley 849 ; Tuolumne meadows, 

 in rocky soil near the Lodge, 8,500 feet, Smiley 745 ; Shuteye Moun- 

 tain, Madera County, 7,800 feet, J. Murdoch Jr., 2510 ; meadows near 

 Black Mountain, Fresno County, 9,500 feet, Hall and Chandler 595; 

 trail from Round meadow to Kaiser Crest, Fresno County, 8,500 feet, 

 Smiley 615; King's River, Eisen in 1876; near Mineral King, above 

 timber line near the White Chief Mine, Coville and Funston 1562, 



3. Saxifraga arguta D. Don, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. 13, p. 356. 



1822. 



S. punctata Am. authors, not of Lw 



S. denudata Nutt, in T. and G., FL, vol. 1, p. 567. 1840. 



,Si. odontophylla Piper, Contr. Nat. Herb., vol. 11, p. 314. 1906. 



S. odontoloma Piper, Smithson, Misc. Coll., vol. 50, p. 200. 1907. 



Micranthcs arguta Small, N. Am. FL, vol. 22, p. 147. 1905. 



Type locality. — "Habitat ad oras occidentales Americae septen- 

 trionalis. ' ' 



Range. — Alaska (southeastern) to California and in the Rockies 

 to New Mexico. 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examiined. — Canon above Coldstream, Placer County, 

 C. F. Sonne, August 14, 1897 ; same locality. Heller 7005 ; high moun- 

 tain near Donner Pass, Torrey 157 ; Slide Mountain, Washoe County, 

 Nevada, 7,500 feet. Heller 10207 ; head of Fall Creek, Ormsby County, 

 Nevada, Baker 1434; mountains of Fresno County, Eisen; Pitman 

 Creek, Fresno County, 7,200 feet. Smiley 574 ; Round Meadow, Tulare 

 County, Dudley 1059 ; along brooks below Farewell Gap, Tulare 

 County, 10,300 feet, Purpus 5232; Rock Creek meadows, eastern 

 Tulare County, 9,700 feet, H. M. and G. R. Hall 8419; Coyote 

 meadows, Tulare County, Culbertson (B4311). 



If 8. odontoloma is to be accepted as a valid species, other char- 

 acters must be found than those already indicated. Rosendahl"^ 

 considers our American plant inseparable from the European S. 

 punctata L. 



4. Saxifraga Mertensiana Bong., Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. YI, vol. 



2, p. 141. 1832. 



Saxifraga heteraniha Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 1, p. 252. 1832. 

 Steiranisia Jieterantha Eaf., Fl. Tell., vol. 2, p. 69. 1836. 

 Heterisia merteimana Small, N. Am. Fl., vol. 22, p. 156. 1905. 



Type locality. — ' ' S itch a. ' ' 



