168 ERYTHEA. 



somewhat scabrous margins, and with a prominent midrib under- 

 neath, 12-25 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; bracts ovate, lanceolate or 

 linear-attenuate; calyx very viscid, 9 mm. long; the teeth shorter 

 than the tube; corolla bluish, exceeding the calyx by one-third; the 

 lobes narrowly obcordate, 9 mm. long. 



When preparing the revision of the Western N. A. Phloxes I 

 referred this to P. occidentalis Durand, having then only a small 

 specimen collected by Kirk Whited at Wenatchee, Wash., in 1896, 

 and did not therefore venture to describe it as new. Now that 

 good material is at hand, secured by Mr, Whited in the same 

 locality and communicated by Prof. C. V. Piper, I do not hesitate 

 to name it. I take great pleasure in dedicating it to the collector, 

 whose No. 1036 is the type, and many of whose fine specimens of 

 Phlox I have had occasion to examine. 



Saxifraga saximontana. Scapes one or two, from a short 

 rootstock which is covered with numerous fibrous roots, pubescent 

 with short purple-tipped hairs and somewhat glandular, 1-2 dm. 

 high; leaves ovate, rhombic-ovate or oval, with petioles of about 

 their own length, glabrous except the margins, which are often 

 pubescent, some of them often purplish, 10-35 mm, long; inflores- 

 cence a panicle of ascending, few-flowered, corymbose cymes; 

 bracts linear or oblong; calyx adnate to the carpels only at the 

 base, inclosed at base in a scarious envelope, divided nearly to the 

 base into ovate, obtuse, at length reflexed, 3-nerved lobes; petals 

 white, short-clawed, rotund to broadly oval, rounded at apex or 

 barely retuse, wath several lateral nerves arising near or above the 

 middle, these evanescent or converging to the mid-nerve near the 

 apex, a little less than twice the length of the calyx lobes, 1.5-3 

 mm. long; filaments about as long as the calyx lobes, clavate; an- 

 thers yellow; carpels distinct to the base, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 

 purple, at length divergent, about 5 mm. long; seeds oblong, low- 

 tuberculate. 



Within recent years several relatives of the eastern S. Virginien- 

 sis have been described from the Pacific Coast states, but the plant 

 of the Rocky Mountains formerly referred to the above, seems to 

 have been overlooked. Of all its western allies the species here 

 named is nearest to S. Californica. From that, however, it is 

 readily distinguished by its glabrous, coarsely serrate leaves and 



