Il8 SAXIFRAGE FAMILY 



to 1% in. wide, 2 to 6 in. long including the broad petiole, 

 minutely few-toothed. Petals small, obovate, dull white. — 

 In moist meadows and on stream banks, as at the base of 

 Clouds Rest and on Mt. Dana. 



7. S. tdlmiei T. & G. Nearly glabrous, very leafy at the 

 matted creeping perennial base, the white flowers loosely 

 clustered at the summit of a naked stalk 2 to 6 in. high. 

 Leaves spatulate, leathery, nerveless, obtuse, entire, l /> in. or 

 less long, sessile. Petals lanceolate, small. (S. ledifolia 

 Greene.) — Near snow banks above timber-line; not yet found 

 in our district but to be expected since it occurs in Tulare Co. 

 and is common from Pyramid Peak north to Washington. 



2. BOYKINIA. 



1. B. major Gray. Leaves several, on very long petioles 

 (upper ones sessile), the blade fan-shaped, 6 to 18 in. across, 

 deeply palmately lobed, the lobes sharply toothed; stipules 

 very large. Flowers numerous, small, in open terminal pani- 

 cles. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Capsule 2-celled. 



This is a stout perennial, 2 or 3 ft. high, the erect stem with 

 several broad, rounded leaves and a large, loose cluster of 

 white flowers. It grows along nearly all of the streams below 

 6000 ft., coming into bloom about midsummer. 



3. BOLANDRA. 



1. B. californica Gray. Lower leaves long-petioled, the 

 uppermost sessile; stipules often conspicuous; blades round- 

 ish, l /2 to 1H i n - across, irregularly cut into several broad 

 toothed lobes. Flowers on long diverging bracted pedicels. 

 Calyx cup-shaped, purplish, the lobes reduced to slender re- 

 curved tips. Petals 5, tapering to slender tips, dull white, the 

 edges and tip rose-red. Stamens 5. 



This slender, graceful plant, with weak stems 6 to 18 in. 

 long, was first found in "Yosemite Valley, on the Mariposa 

 Trail, among rocks," by H. N. Bolander, of the State Geo- 

 logical Survey, for whom it was named. It is not known 

 from outside of the Yosemite National Park, where it has 

 been collected as follows: Eagle Peak, Staircase Falls, 

 creeks near Artist's Point, Nevada Falls, Glacier Point Trail 

 (6900 ft.), Tenaya Falls, Stubblefield Canon (8400 ft), and 

 trail above Pleasant Valley. 



4. HEUCHERA. Alum-root. 

 Perennial herbs with leaves and naked flowering stems all 



