116 PITTONIA. 
SAXIFRAGA PARVIFOLIA. Scapiform stem stoutish, a foot 
high or somewhat less, from a radical cluster of few and 
relatively very small leaves, these ovate, obtuse, slightly 
toothed or entire, short petiolate, somewhat fleshy, glabrous: 
scape sparsely clothed with short but coarse glandular hairs, 
at summit parted into branchlets, each cymosely 8 to 5-flow- 
ered: calyx cleft to the middle into deltoid erect segments: 
petals white, spatulate-oblong, obtuse, more than twice the 
length of the calyx: filaments filiform; anthers orbicular: 
mature carpels red, only the beaks divergent. 
Grant’s Pass, Oregon, 1892, Thomas Howell. Related to 
S. Californica and fallaz. | 
CARDAMINE VALLICOLA. Perennial; margins of leaflets 
with scattered hairs, plant otherwise glabrous: stems clus- 
tered from a short stout branched rootstock, stout, erect, 1 
to 1} feet high, leafy up to the branched summit: leaves 
all lyrate-pinnate, the lowest of 7 or 9, the upper mostly of 
about 5 leaflets; lateral leaflets variously ovate, entire Or 
few-toothed, the terminal one much larger, somewhat lobed: 
racemes short, in fruit rather dense: flowers of middle size 
white: pods very erect, but on ascending pedicels, slender, 
narrowly linear, tapering to the rather long style. 
Wet meadows along Dale Creek, Wyoming, 30 June, 1896. 
Intermediate in habit and character between tbe Rocky 
Mountain C. cordifolia and C. Breweri of the Sierra Nevada 
and Cascades. 
