192 SAXIFRAGES. 



beaks. Seeds very numerous, with a close coat. — An unsatisfactory 

 genus, of two very diverse types, perhaps better received as distinct 

 genera ; but the Lilliophragtna species are very closely analogous to 

 typical Saxifraga: the typical Tellima is as near to the older genus 

 MUella, to which, at the first, it was referred. 

 * Corolla regular, the petals green, sessile by a broad base, lacinialely 

 pinnalifid; styles and placentse 2. — Tellima proper. 



1. T. graudUlora, Dougl. Bot. Reg. t. 1178 (1828) ; Pursh, Fl. i. 314 

 (1814), under MUella. Stoutish, 1 — 2 ft. high, from rather coarse tufted 

 rootstocks ; herbage rough-hirsute : leaves round-cordate, more or less 

 lobed, 2 — 4 in. broad : calyx 3^ — % in. long, inflated-campanulate : 

 seeds light brown, oval, strongly rugose-pitted. — Wooded hills, or some- 

 times in open ground, from Santa Cruz northward. May, June. 



* * Corolla slightly irregular, the petals while or pinkish, entire or 



lobed or toothed, shorl-ung wiculale ; styles and placentas 3. — 



Genus Lithophragma, Nutt. 



-h- Calyx turbinate, the tube more or less coherent uyith the ovary. 



2. T. attiuis, Boland. Catal. 11 (1870) ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 534 

 (1865), under Lithophragma. Stems one or several from a slender hori- 

 zontal or ascending tuberiferous rootstock, commonly }^ ft. high, 

 scabrous-hirsute : radical leaves very few, round-reniform, slightly 

 lobed, 1 in. broad ; cauliue relatively broader, 3-lobed to the middle, the 

 lobes coarsely toothed : calyx 1% lines long ; pedicels rather longer : 

 lower (3) petals 4 or 5 lines long, 3-toothed, the upper (2) narrower and 

 a trifle shorter, entire : styles short, not exserted from the calyx : seeds 

 oblong, dark browrr, faintly striate-pitted or almost smooth. — Frequent 

 on shady hillsides almost throughout the State. — Apr. — June. 



3. T. Cymbalaria, Walp. Rep. ii. 372 (1843) ; T. & G. Fl. i. 5,85 (1840), 

 under Lithophragma. Stems very slender, almost filiform, 1 ft. high or 

 less ; radical leaves % in. broad or less, 3-lobed, the lobes rounded, 

 entire ; cal^line usually only an opposite pair, 3-parted : fl. very few, on 

 filiform pedicels thrice the length of the calyx : calyx-lobes broad and 

 short : petals spatulate-obovate, entire, the 2 upper smaller, with shorter 

 and broader blade and more pronounced claw. — An apparently rare 

 species of the South (Santa Barbara, etc.) ; the fruit not known. 



4. T. teuella, Walp. Rep. ii. 371 (1843) ; Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i. 584 (1840), 

 under Lilhophragtna. Slender, 2—10 in. high, purple, roughish with a 

 minute glandular pubescence : lower leaves parted into 3 — 5 cuneiform 

 toothed lobes, }o in. broad, the cauliue few, smaller, all the axils bearing 

 minute granular bulblets : pedicels few, ascending, as long as the 

 obconical calyx : petals large, pinkish, 3 — 5-parted into linear divisions. — 

 In the Sierra Nevada from Donner Lake northward. June. 



■i- -I— Calyx campanulate, with truncate or rounded base nearly or 

 quite free from the ovary. 



