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The type is no. 6521 from the high grassy slopes of the Teton mountains, 
August 16, 1899; also no. 6684 from Dunraven peak in the Yellowstone park, 
August 27. 
Heuchera saxicola.—Scape, petioles, and inflorescence villous and 
viscid- glandular, the leaves sparsely so: leaves oval to rotund, truncaté 
or subcordate at base, doubly and incisely crenate with obtusish teeth, 
2-4™ long, on petioles 4-9 long : scapes slender, 2-4" high, with two 
diminutive bract-like leaves near the summit : spike simple, often inter 
rupted below, 3-6™ long ; bracts ovate in outline, acuminate, 3-cleftt0 
nearly entire and rhomboid, very ciliate on the margin, frequently 
tinged with violet, 6-3™ long: calyx campanulate, about 7” long, 
very pubescent and glandular, villous at base, divided to about tht 
middle ; the tube adnate to the ovaries for slightly over half its length; 
the lobes unequal in size, ovate or oval, obtuse, white and petaloid: 
petals wanting: filaments from triangular to subulate, 1™ or less in 
length: capsule ovoid : seeds oval, hispid, brown. | 
#1, saxicola is a near relative of H. ovalifolia Nutt., to which it is apparel) 
referred in the recent published Catalogue of the Flora of Montana, to? 
specimen, collected by Rydberg and Bessey in the Spanish basin, belongs ® 
this species. Referring to the original description, we find that H. ovalifola 
is “wholly destitute of villous hairs,” a negative character which at st 
Northwest America. As here characterized, it has lanceolate and Jaciniaté 2 
bracts, while in ours they are ovate in outline and either rhomboid or 3-clelt 
The calyx is also described as tubular and with lanceolate lobes. In H, sat 
cola, on the other hand, the calyx is rather campanulate and the ee 
broader, on 
Type, no. 5687, Undine falls in Yellowstone park, July 6, 1899; also, 
2822, Little goose creek cafion, July 17, 1896. | 
Saxifraga cognata.—Cespitose, the numerous short, erect oe 
(1-3™ long) forming dense cushions, the lower part of the stems ile 
ered with old leaves: leaves imbricated, oblong-linear to lanceol . 
cuspidate, 5~r1o™ long, hispid ciliate on the margins, otherwise glab 
rous: flowering stems slender, about 1° high, sparsely covered ¥ : 
short purple-tipped hairs, as also the pedicels of the flowers, beat 
several linear oblong leaves, these 3-5™" long and naked on the * 
gins, or nearly so: inflorescence cymose, 5~7-flowered, seldom 9° 
divided two thirds to three fourths; the lobes ovate, obtuse 
acutish, indistinctly 3-nerved, somewhat less than 2™” long: pe 
