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ciiueiform, obtusely cleft ; cauline few, simply 3-lobed, or more reduced 

 and simple ; axils of the lower bulbiferous : fl. in a simple corymb ; 

 petals obovate, white, twice the length of the acute calyx-lobes : calyx 

 carapaiiulate in fruit. — On Spanish Peak, Plumas Co., Mrs. Austin, aud 

 northward. 



3. IJOLAXDRA, A. Gray. Herbs with the foliage and habit of 

 Boykinia proper, but flowers fewer, petals narrower aud purplish, aud 

 ovary wholly free from the broad campauulate calyx. Seeds minute, 

 with a thin loose coat. 



1. B. Califoniica, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 341 (1868). Erect, 

 rather slender, 1 ft. high or less, glabrous, bearing granular bulblets at 

 base of stem : leaves thin ; the lower round-reniform, 5-lobed, on long 

 slender petioles ; upper sessile or clasping, incised or toothed, the floral 

 reduced to ovate or lanceolate entire bracts : fl. solitary at the ends of 

 paniculate branches : calyx broad, somewhat inflated, truncate at base : 

 petals slender, subulate, recurved, persistent : capsule membranaceous, 

 enclosed in the calyx. — On wet rocks in the Yosemite and northward. 



4. TOLMIEA, Torrey c& Gray. Perennial, with radical leaves (these 

 in age gemmiparous at base of the blade) and scapiform racemose stems. 

 Calyx funnelform, free from the ovary, membranaceous, gibbous at base; 

 the 5 lobes somewhat unequal ; tube in age splitting down one side. 

 Petals 5, flhform, inserted in the sinuses of the calyx, recurved, persistent. 

 Stamens 3, inserted in the throat of the calyx opposite the upper lobe 

 and the two lateral ones ; filaments short ; anther-cells confluent. 

 Ovary elongated-oblong or clavate, attenuate at base, cleft above, 

 1-celled, with 2 parietal placentse ; styles slender ; stigmas capitellate. 

 Capsule at base attenuate to a stipe, dehiscent between the divergent 

 equal beaks. Seeds globose, the close firm coat muriculate. 



1. T. Meiiziesii, T. & G. Fl. i. 582 (1840) ; Pursh, Fl. i. 313 (1814), 

 under Tiarella; Hook. Fl. i. 237. t. 80 (1833), under Heuchera. Hispidly 

 pubescent, 1 — 2 ft. high : radical leaves round-cordate, more or less 

 lobed and toothed : stem with 2 or 3 small leaves : raceme loose, i-^ — 1 

 ft. long ; fl. and capsule }'2 in. long, greenish or purplish. — Forests of 

 Mendocino Co., Bolander, and northward. 



5. TELLIMA, Robert Brown. Perennial herbs, with leaves chiefly 

 radical, round-cordate, toothed or palmately divided, their petioles 

 stipulaceously dilated at base. Flowers in a simple terminal raceme. 

 Calyx campauulate or turbinate, 5-lobed, free from the ovary, or coherent 

 with it at base or even to above the middle ; the short triangular lobes 

 valvate in bud. Petals 5, laciniate-pinnatifid, or 3— 7-lobed, or entire, 

 distant and sometimes involute in bud. Stamens 10, short, included. 

 Ovary short, 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal placentfe ; styles 2 or 3, very 

 short ; stigmas capitate. Capsule conical, opening between the short 



