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Specimens examined. Vicinity of Tuolumne meadows, 8,500-9,500 

 feet, Hall and Babcock 3545 (co-type) ; same locality, 8,700 feet, Smiley 

 845; Lambert's Rock, Tuolumne meadows, Dudley, July 21, 1901. 



The characters relied upon to distinguish this segregate are cer- 

 tainly not of specific grade, unless every depauperate form is to be 

 considered as a species; the character of narrower calyx-lobes than is 

 present in the type is wholly unreal when any considerable series is 

 examined ; but the vegetative aspect of the plant is sufficiently different 

 from that of the species to possibly warrant its maintenance as a 

 variety of ecologic significance. 



3. Sedum yosemitense Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 3, 

 p. 44. 1903. 



Type locality. "Between Vernal and Nevada Falls." 

 Range. Central Sierra Nevada, 



Zone. Arid Transition and rising into the Canadian. 

 Specimen examined. Dark Hole, Yosemite Park, 7,750 feet, H. M. 

 Evans, July, 1901. 



29. SAXIFBAGACEAE (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY) 



Annual or perennial herbs (Saxifraga ledifolia is slightly suffrutescent but 

 known from Jamestia by its linear terete leaves; from Eibes by 10 stamens). 

 Fertile stamens 5. 



Staminodia present; ca'rpels 2, distinct; flowers large, usually solitary 



1. Parnassia 



Staminodia absent, all 5 stamens antheriferous; carpels 3-4, united; flowers 



numerous, clustered. 

 Ovary superior or silghtly attached to the base of the calyx. 



Stems leafy 2. Bolandra 



Stems scapose. 



Petals entire, pinkish or nearly white 3. Heuchera 



Petals pinnatifid or lobed, greenish 4. Mitella 



Ovary inferior 5. Suksdorfia 



Fertile stamens 10. 



Capsule 1-celled; petals lobed 6. Tellima 



Capsule 2-celled; petals entire 7. Saxifraga 



Shrubs. 



Leaves opposite; stamens 10 8. Jamesia 



Leaves alternate; stamens 5 9. Kibes 



1. PARNASSIA 



1. Parnassia californica Greene, Pitt., vol. 2, p. 102. 1890. 

 P. palustris var. Californica Gray, Bot. Calif., vol. 1, p. 202. 1876. 



Type locality. "Wet places in the Sierra Nevada, etc., from Mari- 

 posa Co. northward, and on Red Mountain, Mendocino Co. (Kellogg, 

 Bolander), chiefly the var. Californica." 



