198 



lar, naked or bearing two or three small leaves ; root-leaves 

 roundish, y>,' to 1]/^,' broad, subcordate, incisely lobed, lobes cre- 

 nate-dentate ; calyx at time of flowering campanulate, about 2" 

 long, minutely glandular ; petals filiform, only a little longer than 

 calyx lobes ; stamens not exserted at first, but slightly exserted 

 later. 



Colorado. — Parry, No. 172, Greene; Georgetown, Patterson, 

 No. 3 1 ; Denver to Idaho City, Porter; Rocky Mts., Hall and 

 Harbour, No. 205, (in part); Grand Lake, Vasey, No. 217; 

 James, (type of Tiarella bracteata ) ; Gray's Peak. Nevada. — 

 Empire City, Gray. 



Iff Flowering calyx 3" to 5" long. 

 * Inflorescence an open, spreading panicle. 



13. H. ruBESCENS, Pursh, i. 187, (1814). 



H. pnlveridenta and renifonnis, Raf. Med. Fl. i. 243 and 



244, (1828). 

 H. ribifolia, Fisch. and Lall. in Ind. Sem. h. Petrop. 8, 62, 



(1841). 



Stems, usually bearing one or two small leaves, i" to 3" high, 

 densely glandular, at least above; root-leaves round-cordate, 2' 

 to 4' broad, slightly 5 or 7 lobed, veins prominent ; calyx at 

 time of flowering oblong-campanulate, somewhat oblique, 3" to 

 4" long, minutely glandular, lobes often unequal ; petals broadly 

 spatulate, veined, a little longer than calyx lobes ; stamens hardly 

 exserted, the anthers being on a level with the tips of the cal)'x 

 lobes, sometimes, however, slightly exserted. 



Pennsylvania. — Lancaster Co., Small ; Birmingham, Miss 

 Davis ; near Schuylkill River, Canby ; Banks of Susquehanna, 

 Porter ; Warriorsmark, Lowrie ; Reading, Herb. Phil. Acad. 

 Maryland. — AUeghanies, Rafinesque (//. grandiflora, Raf in 

 Herb. Torr.) Virginia. — Daubeny, Hot Springs, Curtiss. North 

 Carolina. — Vasey ; Hick. Nut Gap, Curtiss, Asheville, Thos. 

 Hogg. Kentucky. — Rafinesque, (//. renifonnis, Raf in Herb. 

 Gray) ; Bath, Short. 



'•"■* Inflorescence a narrow panicle. 



14. H. HISPIDA, Pursh, i. 188, (1814). 



H. Richardsonii, R. Br., Frankl. Journ., 766, t. 29, (1823). 

 //. Incida, Schlecht, Ind. Sem. h. Hal. 8, (1848). 

 Stems, usually leafless, 2° to 4° high, hirsute, as are also the 

 petioles, with pale spreading hairs, and above minutely glandu- 



