56 ERYTHEA, 
genuine Tellima, that is, a strict and close congener of 
T. grandiflora, becomes one of the more instructive and 
important of recently detected saxifrageous herbs; and it is 
certainly to be taken as a new argument for the restoration 
of Lithophragma to generic rank; for all these plants, now 
forming the vastly preponderant part of so-called Tellima, 
are utterly at variance with the type of that genus in habit, 
and in very constant characters of the corolla. 
The species of Tellima here under special notice has not so 
much as one character of Heuchera. The following five 
points each and all declare it to be a Tellima: (1) racemose 
inflorescence: (2) valvate calyx-segments: (3) lacerate 
petals: (4) short and included stamens: (5) seeds not 
muricate. As to vegetative characters: the flowers are not 
borne on axillary naked peduncles, but on a terminal leafy 
stem. That the stamens are 5 rather than as in other 
Heucheree 10, is at best a feeble argument to be brought for- 
ward against the five or six reasons, each one conclusive, for 
Seeing it a Tellima; and to prove the worthlessness of this 
technicality of the mere number of stamens, one need only 
ook into that genus which is the very next of kin, 7. e., 
Mitella, to find some Species with 5, others with 10 stamens. 
SUKSDORFIA VIOLACEA, A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xv. 42 
(1879). This elegant little herb of the far Northwest, sup- 
posed to have been first detected by Suksdorf in 1878, was 
really first obtained by David Douglas more than a half 
century earlier. Two small specimens of it are in the her- 
barium of the British Museum, mounted alongside a Litho- 
phragma of Douglas’ collecting, the whole bearing the 
legend, “Sandy soil, near Kettle Falls of the Columbia, 
826.’ Py 
Among the Borragineous genera proposed by me as new, 
in the first volume of Pittonia, those concerning the validity 
of which I felt that no reasonable doubt could be entertained 
