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Eastw. ; N. Am. Fl. 22:89 (1905), type loc. Sweetwater Dam, San Diego Co., Eastwood. Tellima 

 trifida Fedde, Just Bot. Jahresb. 33^:614 (1906). L. intermedia Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:88 (1905), 

 type loc. Los Angeles Co., H. E. Easse, and L. catalinae Rydb. I.e., type loe. Avalon, Santa Cata- 

 lina Isl., Blanche TrasJc, probably belong here. Tellima intermedia and T. catalinae Fedde, Just 

 Bot. Jahresb. 33^:614 (1906). 



2. L. cymbalaria T. & G. Mission Star. Stems filiform, 10 to 17 inches high; 

 blades of basal leaves round-reniform, 3 to 5-lobed, 2 to 9 lines broad; cauline leaves 

 mostly only a pair, these opposite or nearly so; flowers few, the slender pedicels 

 exceeding the calyx; calyx broadly campanulate, often with an obscure brownish 

 or constricted band below the lobes; petals elliptic, entire or nearly so. 



Hills, mostly near the coast, 500 to 1500 feet : San Luis Obispo Co. to San Diego 

 Co. Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — Paso Robles, Benj. Cobb; San Luis Obispo, Summers; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; 

 Rattlesnake Canon, Santa Inez Mts., Jepson 9125; Santa Cruz Isl., T. Brandegee; Oak Grove 

 trail to Palomar Mt., Munz 10,402. 



Refs. — LiTHOPHRAGMA CYMBALARIA T. & G. Fl. 1:585 (1840), type loc. Santa Barbara, 

 Nuttall; Jepson, Man. 460 (1925). Tellima cymbalaria Steud. Norn. Bot. ed. 2, 2:665 (1841). 



3. L. heterophylla T. & G. Hill Star. Stems 1 to 2 feet high ; herbage hir- 

 sutulose or somewhat scabrous-pubescent, sometimes glandular at base ; leaf -blades 

 roundish, crenately lobed, I/2 to 1^4 inches broad, the cauline very variable but 

 mostly 3-parted with the divisions incised or toothed ; pedicels mostly shorter than 

 the calyx, often very short ; calyx campanulate, truncate or rounded at base, spar- 

 ingly puberulent; petals with 1 or 2 teeth on each side, sometimes with 3 or 4. 



Shady ground in the hills, 300 to 3000 feet : coastal Southern California; Coast 

 Ranges; Great Valley; lower Sierra Nevada foothills. Mar.- June. 



Locs. — No two stations of Lithophragma heterophylla show quite similar individuals. It is 

 an especially variable form in leaf outline and segmentation, especially in the case of the cauline 

 leaves. The petals vary in size and in toothing ; while they are usually cleft, toothed and entire 

 petals may be found in the same flower. In most cases the petals are a little ascending, while in 

 the case of the var. scabrella they are often nearly erect. In L. tenella and in L. affinis, on the 

 other hand, the petals are commonly rotate. We include the following under L, heterophylla. 

 S. Cal. : Escondido, C. V. Meyer 14; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King; Millard Canon, San Gabriel 

 Mts., Peirson 69 ; Canon Diablo, San Bernardino Mts., Parish. Tehachapi Mts. : Rowen, Jepson 

 6727. Coast Ranges: Alum Rock Canon, San Jose, Pendleton 680; Berkeley, Jepson 13,471; 

 Mt. Tamalpais, Chesnut; St. Helena, Jepson 13,470; Calistoga, Jepson 4018. Great Valley: 

 Smith Mt., ne. of Dinuba, Harriet Kelley; South Peak, Marysville Buttes, Jepson 13,475; Crane 

 Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 13,472. Sierra Nevada foothills: Murphy, Davy 1523; Sheep 

 Ranch, Calaveras Co., Davy 1589 ; Placerville, K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Lithophragma heterophylla T. & G. Fl. 1:584 (1840) ; Jepson, Man. 460 (1925). 

 Tellima heterophylla H. & A. Bot. Beech. 346 (1840), type from Cal. Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 270 (1901), ed. 2, 199 (1911). L. bolanderi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6:535 (1865), 

 type loc. shady ravine se. of Mt. Diablo, Brewer. Tellima bolanderi Bol. Cat. PI. S. F. 11 (1870). 

 T. heterophylla var. bolanderi Jepson, Fl. "W. Mid. CaL 270 (1901). L. heterophylla var. bolan- 

 deri Jepson, Man. 460 (1925). L. triloba Rydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:87 (1905), type loc. Santa Lucia 

 Mts., B. A. PlasTcett. Tellima triloba Fedde, Just Bot. Jahresb. 33^:614 (1906). 



4. L. scabrella Greene. Sierra Star. Plants 9 to 21 inches high; stems his- 

 pidulose with short spreading hairs, on upper part with the hairs sometimes gland- 

 tipped; leaf -blades crenate and crenately lobed, 5 to 14 inches wide, the cauline 

 few, often 3-cleft or -divided; calyx bowl-shaped, borne on a pedicel % to 1 line 

 long; petals spreading, elliptic-ovate to oblong, entire or more commonly with 1 or 

 2 (to 4) teeth on each side; claws very slender, exserted, rather abruptly joined 

 to the somewhat truncatish or very obtuse base of the limb which is somewhat 

 folded and minutely crenulate or minutely laciniate on its margins. 



Wooded slopes, 1700 to 8500 feet: Siskiyou Co.; Sierra Nevada from Tehama 

 Co. to Kern Co. May-July. 



Locs. — In character of pubescence L. scabrella does not differ from some states of genuine 

 L. heterophylla T. & G. All the specimens here cited have in common, however, the peculiarity 



