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BOTAOT. 
obtuse, entire or very slightly sinuate-crenate ; scape elongated, paniculate at 
the apex, the panicle loose, rather narrow or sometimes expanded; calyx 
glabrous, segments at length reflexed ; otherwise as in the last.— A tall and 
slender species, 1-3° high, approaching nearly at times to forms of S. nivalis, 
but probably to be kept distinct. The present specimens have compact 
granulate roots. Oregon and California. Wahsatch Mountains; 6,000 feet 
altitude; June. (359.) 
Saxifraga punctata, L. (S. cestivalis, Fisch.) Perennial, villous- 
pubescent or nearly glabrous ; leaves radical, 2' in diameter, long-petioled, 
roundish-reniform or orbicular, equally and deeply dentate, the teeth mostly 
acute ; scape slender, (1-1 J° high,) the peduncles and pedicels of the usually 
open panicle glandular; bracts small, Hnear; petals white, oval or orbicular, 
unguiculate, obtuse, exceeding the obtuse ovate-oblong reflexed sepals ; fila- 
ments often petaloid and abortive ; ovaries free, distinct below the middle.— 
On the northwest coast from Behring Strait to Sitka, and in the Eocky Moun- 
tains southward to Oregon and California. East Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada, and the Uintas; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (360.) 
Saxifeaga flagellaris, Willd. Perennial, glandular-pubescent; stems 
4- 6' high, simple, leafy, 1-5-flowered; stolons from the axils of the radical 
leaves long and filiform, naked, rooting at the extremity ; leaves obovate- 
spatulatc, ciliate, the lower much crowded, the upper oblong or linear; 
sepals very glandular, united at base, and slightly coherent with the ovary ; 
petals persistent, yellow, 3-4" long, exceeding the capsule.— Arctic AmericI 
from Greenland to Behring Strait, and on the summits of the Rocky Moun- 
tains to Colorado. On the Uintas ; 11,000 feet altitude ; August. (361.) 
Tellima^ parviflora. Hook. Scabrous-hirsute ; leaves ternately divided 
or lobed, the segments 3-cleft ; pedicels suberect, usually shorter than the 
calyx which is obconic, elongating in fruit, and densely glandular-hirsute; 
petals much exserted, deeply 5-cleft with narrow segments; ovary adnate 
above the middle; seeds oblong, minutely roughened.— Root more or le^s 
granulate; stems 6-15' high, with 1^2Jeaves^^^^ 
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with tUe 10 s.aU in.a,l.l ..u.ns. ^^^^ 
OVU1..1 placont..; styles 2-^, «hort . Capsule wholly or half inferior m mtanot ^ ^^^^^^ 
s.eao<l.-Erect sin.ple pilose or .landular herbs, "ith potioled round I cZ^^^^ 
terminal racemes. The ^(^^^^um lAthophragma \^ .\\^Vm^nmL^^ ^""^^^^^ 
5- lobed or pinnatifid petals, and minute seed. nlLxTHr rHooK. ''''^ unguiculate 
