194 SAXIFRAGACEA., SAXFRAGA. 
S. parvifolia Greene Pitt. iii, 116. Stems’ stoutish, 6-16 inches high, 
from a small somewhat woody caudex, pubescent with coarse glandular 
hairs: leaves ovate, obtuse, entire or slightly toothed, 6-10 lines long, on 
winged petioles as long or longer, somewhat fleshy, glabrous: branches of 
the panicle each cymosely 3-5-flowered; calyx cleft to the middle into 
deltoid erect segments; petals white, spatulate-oblong, obtuse; nearly 2 
lines long, more than twice as long as the calyx; filaments filifurm; an- 
thers orbicular; mature carpels red, united to near the middle, adnate to 
the tube of the calyx, only the beaks divergent. On damp open hillsides 
about Grants Pass, Oregon. 
S. Oregana Howell Eryth. iii, 34. Canescently pubescent: leaves 
and stem from a thickened fleshy caudex: leaves spatulate to lanceolate, 
1-8 inches long, obtuse, obscurely repand-dentate, sessile or attenuate be- 
low to a broad petiole: stem stout, |-4 feet high, leafless, branched near 
the top, the branches subtended by linear-lanceolate mostly cuminate 
bracts; flowers in dense cymules, sessile or nearly so; calyx adnate to the 
base of the ovary, cleft to the middle, with short triangular obtuse or 
acute at length reflexed segments; petals vellowish-white, 2 lines long, 
oblong, attenuate below to a short claw; filaments subulate, half as long 
as the petals: carpels distinct or nearly so, diverging, the short beak at 
length bent at a right angle; seeds oblong. In marshes and about springs, 
Washington and Oregon. . 
§ 5. ARapiprA Tausch. 1. c. Caudex above the ground 
scarcely any: stems annual, mostly leafless: calyx free from the 
ovary; the sepals nearly distinct: petals. with slender claws, 
often unequal: filaments filiform: seeds longitudinally striate. 
S. Nutkama Moc. Engler Monog. Sax. 135. Pubescent: stems and 
leaves from the crown of a small fleshy caudex: leaves cuneate-spatulate, 
sessile or some of the outer ones attenuate below to a broad petiole, 10-18 
lines long, unequally ciliate, rather coarsely dentate above the middle: 
stems 3-12 inches high, paniculately branched above, bearing numerous 
propagula in the axils of the floral bracts; flowers numerous, in a loose 
usually secund panicle; calyx free from the ovary, cleft to the base; sepals 
broadly lanceolate, acute, very early reflexed, barely a line long; petals 
white, with a yellow or red spot at the base of the blade, somiewhat un- 
equal, lanceolate, bosp-clawatl: filaments clavate, as long as the petals; 
carpels lance-ovate, united to above the middle, the short slender beaks 
erect. In moist places on the highest mountains, Alaska to Oregon. 
S. reflexa Hook. Fl. i, 249, t. 85 Canescently pubescent: leaves 
ovate, rather coriaceous, opaque, incisely serrate, attenuate into a peti- 
ole: stem naked; panicle glabrous, compact, corvmbose; petals oboyate, 
marked with two orange spots, scarcely twice the length of the obtuse re- 
flexed calyx-segments; filaments dilated upward or petaloid, often abort- 
ive; ovary free from the calyx. Northeastern Washington and Idaho to 
the Arctic Sea shore. ; 
S. occidentalis Watson Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii, 264. Leaves some- 
what fleshy, 6-18 lines long, roundish to oblong cr ovate, coarsely dentate, 
contracted below to a short petiole, tomentose beneath with red or reddish 
hairs, smooth above: stems 2-10 inches high, more or less pubescent and 
glandular; flowers numerous, in a semewhat corymbose cyme: calyx free 
from the ovary, cleft nearly or quite to the base, the oblong or ovate ob- — 
tuse segment not reflexed; petals white, oblong-obovate, obtuse, twice as 
long as the sepals; filaments slender-subulate about equalling the sepals; 
carpels lanceolate, united below, the stout beaks divergent: seeds oblong, 
apiculate at one or both ends, with a loose smooth testa. Common on 
wet rocks, Brit. Columbia to California. 
