NEW OR NOTEWOETHY SPECIES. 1G3 



in texture, round-cordate, ^^ith shallow creimte lobes, 1 iDch 

 broad, on petioles of 1| inches : scapes several, 12 to 18 

 inches high, naked below, racemose above ; calyx obconic, 

 the tube coherent with the ovary, in age oblong, -J inch loDg, 

 constricted under the short lobes: petals white, obovate, 

 entire, 2 or 3 lines long including the slender claw : stamens 



5 : stigmas 2, sessile on the scarcely beahed lobes of the 

 ovary^ these when mature scarcely exserted from the calyx: 

 seeds smooth or slightly rugose. 



Obtained near Deer Lodge, Montarm, May 30th, 1SS9, by 

 Rev. F. D, Kelsey. Nuttall appears to have had a manu- 

 script Lithophragma nudicanlisj and this was referred by 

 Gray to Mitella Irifidcu Oar plant is from Nuttall's locality; 

 but it is far from having either the petals or the capsule of 

 any section of MUella. It is a true Lithophragma in all 

 respects save that the stems are leafless and scape-like. 



•^Saxifeaga Howellii. Perennial, slender, 3 to 5 inches 

 high, glabrous : leaves very thin, oblong, mostly less than an 

 inch long, tapering to a slender petiole of 1^ inches, the mar- 

 gin coarsely and evenly dentate : scapose stem corymbose- 

 cymose at summit, the branchlets and pedicels subtended by 

 small linear bracts : calyx cleft to the base, the segnien(s 

 narrowly oblong, obtuse, spreading in flower, reflexed in 

 fruit: petals oblong, obtuse, white, changing to purplish: 

 filaments linear-filiform, becoming purple: carpels divergent: 



seeds obscurely tuberculate. 



Ou the Coquell Eiver, Oregon, April 20tli. 1891, Mr. Joseph 

 Howell. A near relative of S. occidcnfalis, but a much 

 smaller plant, tlie herbage of a purplish hue, tlie small white 

 petals and filaments fading purplish. 



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Saxifraga Makshallii, Greene, Pittouijv, i. 159. This 



excellent species, founded upon a small specimen from Hum- 

 boldt County, California, appears to be common in Southern 

 Oregon. Large and beautiful specimens of it were obtained 

 in 1889, ou Rogue River, by Mr, Thomas Howell; others nearly 



