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HEMIEVA. 
7 BOLANDRA Gray Proc Am. Acad. vii, 341. 
Perennial herbs with palmately veined, thin leaves and loose 
panicles of purple flowers. Calyx broadly campanulate, 5-lobed, 
valvate in the bud, the tube free from the ovary. Petals 5, 
linear, entire, inserted in the throat of the calyx and alternate 
with its lobes, persistent. Stamens 5, alternate with the petals: 
filaments filitorm: anthers cordate, 2-celled. Ovary included in 
but wholly free from the inflated calyx, many-ovuled with the 
placentz in the axis: stigma truncate. Capsule membranaceous, 
ovate, with a broad 2-celled base. Seeds numerous, with a 
rather loose testa. 
B. Californica Gray 1 c. Stems 6-18 inches high, weak and ascend- 
ing spparendly from a filiform rootstock, granulate-bulblet-bearing at the 
the stem, glabrous or nearly so: leaves alternate, membranaceous; 
the lower round-reniform, 1-2 inches in diameter, about 5-lobed, on long: 
filiform petioles; the upper sessile or clasping, merely incised or few- 
toothed, gradually reduced upward to small ovate or lanceolate bracts, 
borne on or subtending the slender 1-flowered somewhat paniculate pedun- 
cles: petals dull purple, attenuated, 2 limes long) On wet rocks near the 
eeisadag falls, California, said by Mr. Wheelock to have been found in 
regon. 
B. Oregana Watson Proc Am Acad. xiv, 292. Minutely-pubescent 
and glandular, at least above, stems slender, 6-20 inches high, froma 
stnall bulbiliferous caudex: lower leaves round-reniform, incisely lobed 
and toothed, 1-3 inches in diameter, on long slender petioles with dilated 
stipule-like base: the upper similar but smaller, gradually passing into 
sessile bracts: flowers rather numerous, in loose panicles, on slender 
pedicels; calyx inflated, campanulate, becoming urceolate, the tube 3-4 
lines long, the subulate acuminate lobes, as long as the tube; petals dark 
purple, filiform, 6 lines long or more; filaments a line or more long: cap- 
sule ovate, the long acuminate beaks but slightly diverging, included in 
the calyx; carpels united to the middle. On wet cliffs along the Colum: 
bia river near the Cascades. 
8 HEMIEVA Raf. FI. Tell. ii, 70. 
SUKSDORFIA Gray Proc. Am. Acad. xv, 42. 
Low herbs with small bulb-like caudex, round lobed leaves 
and few flowers in loose paniculate cymes. Calyx campanulate, 
the tube coherent with the ovary, the 5 erect lobes imbricate in 
the bud. Petals 5, alternate with the. calyx-lobes, persistent. 
Stamens 5, alternate with the petals. Ovary 2-celled, many- 
ovuled, with the placente in the axis. Stigma truncate. 
H. ranunculifolia Raf. 1. c. Saxifraga ranunculifolia Hook. Pubes= 
- cent and glandular: stems erect, 6-12 inches high, from a small bulb-like 
caudex, propagating by bulblets in the axils of the lewest leaves: lower 
leaves round-cordate, 6-12 lines in diameter, 3-lobed, the lobes 3-9-toothed, 
on long petioles with dilated base, upper ones similar, on short petioles, or 
reduced to oblong or lanceolate bracts: flowers white, in a loose open or 
short capitate cymouse panicle; calyx campanulate, cleft to about the 
middle, with oblong acute erect lobes; petals oblong. acute, attenuate 
below to a short claw, 3-4 lines long; stamens 5, filaments less than a line 
long: carpels united only near the base, the beaks diverging. On wet 
cliffs on the highest mountains, Brit. Columbia to Oregon. 
