198 SAXIFRAGACE^]. Tellima. 



-i- Ovary fully half free : petals entire : seeds minutely roughened. 



2. T. Cymbalaria, Walp. Stem or scape filiform, a span to a foot high, bear- 

 ing mostly only a pair of opposite 3-lobed or parted leaves : radical leaves round- 

 reniform, somewhat 3 5-lobed (about half an inch in diameter) : flowers few and 

 slender-pedicelled : calyx short and dilated-campauulate, with an acute adnate base ; 

 its lobes very short and broad : petals spatulate-obovate, entire. Lithophragma 

 Cymbalaria, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 585 ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 535. 



Moist shady woods, Santa Barbara to San Diego, Nuttall, "Brewer, Cleveland. Calyx 2 lines 

 and petals 3 or 4 lines long. 



-f- +- Ovary and capsule almost wholly free from tlie broadly campanulate truncate- 

 or round-based calyx : seeds minutely roughened : styles smooth. 



3. T. Bolanderi, Boland. Stems a foot or two high, not rarely branching, 1-4- 

 leaved : radical and lower leaves round-reniform and more or less lobed (l^to 2| 

 inches in diameter), the upper 3 - 5-parted : flowers very short-pedicelled : petals 

 obovate or oval, entire, rarely with a small lateral tooth on each side, white. 

 Lithophragma Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. 



Contra Costa to Mendocino counties, Brewer, Bolander, &c. Calyx 2i and petals 3 or 4 lines 

 long. 



4. T. heterophylla, Hook. & Arn. Stems slender, a foot or less in height, 

 1 - 3-leaved : leaves nearly as in the preceding, but smaller and usually more hirsute : 

 flowers fewer and smaller : petals obtusely 3-lobed, sometimes flesh-colored. Bot. 

 Beeehey, 346. Lithophragma heterophylla,, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. 



Shady grounds, in the western part of the State, especially near San Francisco and on the 

 Sacramento. Calyx 2 and petals 3 or 4 lines long. 



-f- -t- -t- Lower half or more of the ovary and capsule coherent with the turbinate 

 calyx-tube : seeds smooth : styles granulose. 



5. T. affinis, Boland. Rougher-pubescent or scabrous-pnberulent : stem a span to 

 a foot or more high, slender : leaves nearly as in the preceding or smaller (rarely an 

 inch in diameter) : flowers 5 to 12 in the lax raceme : pedicels mostly longer than 

 the densely rough glandular-puberulent calyx : petals somewhat cuneate and with 

 3 short acute lobes or teeth. Lithophragma affinis, Gray, 1. c. 



Rocky and shady places, common through the western part of the State, and northeast to 

 Plumas County in. the Sierra Nevada. Petals 4 or 5 lines long, white or flesh-color, large in pro- 

 portion to the calyx. 



* * Petals ( pink or sometimes white) with limb palmately 3 - 7 '-parted into narrow 

 divisions : even the radical leaves mostly 3 5-parted or divided : slender or fili- 

 form, rootstock and sometimes even the few-flowered raceme bearing clusters of 

 small grain-like bulblets. 



6. T. parviflora, Hook. Roughish-hirsute or scabrous-pubescent, a span to a 

 foot high : divisions of the leaves narrowly cuneate and once or twice 3-cleft into 

 narrow lobes : pedicels erect, about the length of the obconical or at length almost 

 clavate calyx : petals deeply 3-cleft into linear or oblong divisions : ovary and capsule 

 fully half inferior. Fl. i. 239, t. 78. T. parvifolia, Hook. & Arn. Lithophragma 

 parviflora, Nutt. ; Gray, 1. c. 



Shady and rocky places, British Columbia to the mountains of Utah and Colorado, and proba- 

 bly in the northern part of California. "N. California, Menzies," according to Hooker : but the 

 plant may more probably be T. affinis. 



7. T. tenella, Walpers. Small and slender, 2 to 9 inches high, roughish with a 

 minute glandular pubescence : leaves smaller than in the preceding (about half an 

 inch in diameter) : pedicels ascending or spreading: calyx campanulate, the base 

 either roundish or acutish : petals 3 - 5-parted or even irregularly 7-parted into 

 mostly linear divisions : ovary and capsule free except the base. Bot. King. 



