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Saxifraga integrifolia Sierrae Coville. Meadow Saxi- 

 frage. Perennial, from a woody root, simple, erect, 1-2 ft. 

 high, leafless except at the root, glandular-hairy, rather stout, 

 hollow. Leaves 2-6 in. long, i-i^ in. wide, oblong, elliptical to 

 obovate, obtuse or acute at apex, narrowed at base, serrate or en- 

 tire. Flowers in capitate clusters at the ends of slender peduncles 

 which vary from the lowest, 2 in., to the almost sessile, upper- 

 most ones ; bracts and bractlets lanceolate. Flowers small ; 

 sepals triangular, obtuse, reflexed ; petals white, spatulate ; 

 stamens with dilated filaments ; capsule bladdery-dilated, reddish, 

 with the stigmas divergent. This is abundant in the mountain 

 meadows and in other wet places. Summit Meadow, General 

 Grant Park. 



Saxifraga nivalis L. Alpine Saxifrage. Perennial. Leaves 

 clustered at the base of the slender 2-3-in. high flowering stems, 

 smooth throughout. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, yi in. or more 

 long, denticulate with callous teeth. Flowers small, in heads 

 terminating the green or purplish stems. Sepals erect, obtuse. 

 Petals white, oblanceolate ; stamens on broad filaments, stigmas 

 strongly divergent. This little plant grows only above timber 

 line, and was collected on Harrisons Pass. 



Tellima scabrella Qreene var. Stems slender, erect, usually 

 with one branch or simple, rough pubescent and somewhat 

 glandular, i-ij^ ft. high. Root leaves on long petioles, usually 

 with a bulblet in the axil when the plant is old ; blades 3-5-lobed, 

 kidney-shaped, crenate, about an inch in diameter ; petioles 2-3 

 in. long ; stem leaves similar with the petioles shorter. Flowers 

 racemous on very short pedicels, distant. Caljrx; bell-shaped, ob- 

 tuse at base, cohering but slightly to the capsule. Petals with the 

 claws exserted ; blade entire or 3-cleft, the middle lobe much 

 larger than the lateral. Styles and stigmas 3, very short. This 

 diff"ers from the typical form in having the petals lobed instead of 

 entire. General Grant Grove, Millwood, Converse Basin. 



Mitella Breweri Gray. Perennial, from fibrous roots. Leaves 

 all radical, round, kidney-shaped, almost 2 in. in diameter, on 

 petioles twice as long as the blade ; margin doubly crenate ; 

 smooth except for a few long brown hairs on the upper part of the 

 petioles. Flowers small, greenish, in racemes at the ends of the 

 slender, leafless stems which are longer than the leaves ; pedicels 

 short. Calyx star-shaped ; petals pinnately fringed, the corolla 

 almost X ill- in diameter. Common at East Lake. 



Heuchera micrantha Dougl. Perennial, from thick, woody 

 stems, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves radical on long, hairy petioles, 2-6 



