^''^^"»'^- SAXIFRAaACE.1^. ■JJ^w 



longitudinally splitting down one side. Petals 5, fdiform or capillary, inserted in 

 the s.nuses ot the calyx, recurved, persistent. Stamens .3, inserted in the throat of 

 the calyx opposite the uppermost and lateral lol^es : lilaments short • cells of the 

 anther confluent into one. Ovary elongated-oblong or clavate, nmch attenuate at 

 base, above 2-cleft, 1-cellod with 2 parietal plac-,ent,o : styles sle.nl.r : sti-nnas rapi- 

 tellate. Capsule obversely sagittate (the base tapering into a stipe partlv invested 

 by the withering cleft calyx, <tc.), membranaceous, strongly few-veined Tengthwi-se 

 dehiscent between the diverging equal beaks. Seeds numerous, globose; the close 

 hrm coat minutely muricate. — A single species. 



hioV. litf s^o,f )?"' ^'''- * ^'';Y- ^ ^''T^^y ]>"bescent perennial ; a foot or two 

 high, Mth slender creeping rootstocks an.l some summer runners, and the folia^^e 

 and inflorescence of a Ttarella or J/euchera : leaves roun.i-cordate, more or lels 

 lobed and crenately toothed, slender-petioled, all alternate, tiiose of the stem 2 to4 

 scan.uis s ipules more or less manifest : loose raceme a span or two Ion. : lowers 

 and capsule nearly hal an inch long, greenish or somewhat tinged with In.r de- 

 i. 2;{7;t HO ^^''"^^e-^". Tursh, Fl. i. 313. Ifcur./>rra Aremirsii, llook. 1<1. 



Forosts of Mendocino Co. (Bolander), and north to Puget Sound. Propagati,,.. freelv bv ad 



5. TELLIMA, R. Brown. 

 Calyx campanulate or turbinate, 5dobcd; the base of the tube coherent with the 

 base or lower half of the ovary, the short triangular lobes valvate in the bud. 

 Peta s 5, inserted in the throat or sinuses of the calyx, laciniate-pinnatifid, 3-7- 

 lobed or entire, distant and sometimes involute in the bud. Stamens 10, short 

 included : anthers 2-celled. Ovary short, 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal placenta! 

 styles 2 or 3, very short . stigmas capitate. Capsule conical, either all but the base 

 or only the upper half free, slightly 2 - 3-beaked, opening between the beaks. Seeds 

 very numerous, and with a close cont. - Perennials (all ^V. North American) ; with 

 round-cordato and toothed or palmately .livided chiefly alternate leaves, few on the 

 simp .. stems, their petioles with stipulodike dilatations nt base, and the flowers in a 

 simple terminal raceme ; petals white, whitish, or pink. _ Benth. <^ Hook. Gen 

 PI. 1. 637. relh7na & Lithophragma (Nutt.), Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 583. 

 § 1. Petals laciniate-pinnatijid, sessile with a broad base, small: stales and placentcB 



F^Trr mL 'fr^Z-'^^T/'^ (^/"//-coW) Jloroers propoHionally large.- 

 LuiELMMA. {lelltma, R Brown.) 



tnfI;d^;^y^^"f^T^' l^- ^'' ^ ^"^* ^' ^'"" ^"■^'''' ^'••^'" "I'^'-t •'^"<1 ^-^tl'er stout 

 "bed ^";f^'^^;'J'>'-^."te or pubescent: leaves rounded-crdate and more or less 



ne.rvl ir if "' ^^'^ ^^.^^^ = ^^^^ innated-campanulate, from a quarter to 



nearly half an inch long, enclosing the short three-fourths free capsule • seeds short^ 

 oblong minutely rugose. - Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1 1 78. Miiella gLdi^oraFnr^lu 

 Woods, from Snnta Cruz Co. northward, extending to Alaska. 



§ 2. Petals palmateb,Z-Uleft or sometimes entire, on a slender claw, larqe for the 

 size of the Jlower bright rohite or rose-color: styles and placentae commonly 3 • 

 stem and rootstock slender. — LiTnopiinAOMA, Nutt. 



* Petals {white or vearb, so) with the limh merely ?,.lnhed or entire, dilated: radical 

 leaves undnnded and round-reniform : vo grain-like bnlhlets on the rootstocks. 



