SAXIFRAGE FAMILY 



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L. rupicola Greene, Erythea 3 :102 (1895), type loe. Modoc lava beds, B. M. Austin. L. breviloba 

 Eydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:86 (1905), type loc. Sierra Co., Lemmon 647. Tellima breviloba Fedde, 

 Just Bot. Jahresb. 33':614 (1906). L. australis Eydb. N. Am. Fl. 22:86 (1905), type loc. Cedar 

 Creek, (Ariz. ?), Newberry. Tellima australis Fedde, Just Bot. Jahresb. 33^:614 (1906). 



7. L. parviflora Nutt. (Fig. 150.) Stems 7 to 15 inches high; leaf -blades 

 twice palmately divided into narrowly ovate or linear segments, 4 to 8 lines wide, 

 the cauline often 1^/2 to 2 times as large as the basal; calyx turbinate or clavate, 

 iy2 to 21/2 lines long, its tube rusty glandular- 

 pubescent, somewhat annular-dilated at the mid- 

 dle; petals pink, rotate, 3-lobed or -cleft, 21^ to 

 4% lines long. 



Mountain valleys, 2300 to 4500 feet: San 

 Emigdio and Tehachapi mountains; Lassen and 

 Modoc Cos.; eastern Siskiyou Co. North to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, east to Colorado. Apr.-July. 



Locs. — San Emigdio Caiion, Davy 2057; Eowen, Te- 

 hachapi Mts., Jepson 6726; Milford, Lassen Co., M. S. 

 BaTcer ; Susanville, T. Brandegee ; Big Valley, Modoc Co., 

 M. S. BaTcer; Shasta City, Elna Long. 



Var, trifoliata Jepson comb. n. Calyx very narrow, 

 3 lines long; calyx-lobes lanceolate; corolla rose-color, 5 to 

 9 lines wide ; petals very broad. — Butte Co. foothills. 



Eef S. — LiTHOPHRAGMA PARVIFLORA Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 



1:584 (1840) ; Jepson, Man. 461 (1925). Tellima parvi- 

 flora Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:239, t. 78A (1834), type loc. 

 "North California", Mens'ies, but he, the first collector, must 



have obtained it 



in Oregon or 



Was hington. 



Var. TRIFOLIATA 



Jepson. L.trifo- 

 haia Eastw.Bull. 

 Torr. Club 32: 

 200 (1905), type 

 loc. Sierra Ne- 

 vada foothills 

 near Chico, C. C. 

 Bruce 1844. 



Fig. 150. LiTHOPHRAGMA PARVI- 

 FLORA Nutt. a, base of plant, X % ; 

 b, upper part of plant, X % ; c, 

 long. sect, of fl. with corolla re- 

 moved, X 2^2 ; H, petal, X 1; e, 

 cross sect, of ovary, X 5. 



9. TELLIMA R. Br. 

 Perennial herbs with horizontal rootstocks. 

 Stems simple, with a long terminal raceme of 

 many flowers. Calyx inflated-camp anulate, 

 10-nerved, its teeth erect. Petals at first whit- 

 ish, soon changing to red, sessile by a broad 

 base, laciniate-pinnatifid, reflexed from the 

 first. Stamens 10. Ovary almost completely 

 inferior, with 2 parietal placentae alternate 

 with 2 styles. (Capsule conical. — Species 1. 

 (Name an anagram of Mitella.) 



1. T. grandiflora Dougl. Fringe-cups. 

 (Fig. 151.) Stems 1^/2 to 31/2 feet high, hirsute 

 with spreading hairs, as also the petioles; leaf- 

 blades roundish in outline, cordate at base, 

 shallowy 3 to 5-lobed, serrate or crenate, 2 to 

 4 inches broad, the basal on petioles 2 to 9 inches long; flowers 3 to 4 lines long. 

 Woods, 50 to 4000 feet: Coast Ranges from the Santa Cruz Mts. to western 

 Siskiyou Co.; Sierra Nevada in Plumas Co. North to Alaska, Apr.-July. 



Fig. 

 Dougl. 

 XVa; 

 ovary, 



151. Tellima grandiflora 

 a, basal leaf, X ^/^ ; b, infl., 

 c, fl., X 21/^; d, long. sect, of 

 X2y2. 



