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Rapids of the Columbia." The petals are described as "miniita, 

 lineari-lanceolata, un^uiculata, integerrima." The figure repre- 

 sents the calyx lobes as narrowly lanceolate, acute, which is not 

 the case in our specimens, nor in any others examined from Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Lithophrajyina austromontaiia 



Rootstocks slender, horizontal, tuberiferous: stem slender, 

 3 dm. high, nearly naked, glandular puberulent: basal leaves 3 

 or 4, petioles almost filiform, 4 cm. or less, hirsute with short 

 hairs; blade broadly ovate in outline, the largest 2 cm. across, 

 pubescent like the petiole, 3-divided, the divisions cuneiform 

 with acute base, divided into 3 oblong obtuse lobes, the lateral 

 ones sometimes again slightly lobed, all the lobes with a slight 

 apiculation; stem leaves about two on the lower half of the 

 stem, remote from each other, the lower one shaped much like 

 the basal ones but smaller, the divisions narrower, the petioles 

 shorter; upper leaves reduced to several linear lobes: flowers few 

 at the end of the long scape-like stem: pedicels very slender, 

 glandular pubescent, about 5 mm. long: each subtended by a 

 roundish membranous bract i mm. long: calyx coherent with 

 the ovary, marked with a yellow band around the top of the 

 ovary, turbinate, 5 or 6 cm. long, 4mm. wide, strongly puberu- 

 lent, the triangular acute lobes i mm. long, shortly aristate 

 pointed: petals white, obovate-cuneate, extending 8 mm. beyond 

 the calyx, the largest about 4 mm. wide across the top, cut for 

 about 3 mm. into two or three oblong lobes 1-2 mm. wide: 

 stamens reaching only to the top of the calyx tube: pistils tw'o, 

 short and stout from an enlarged base, extending only to the 

 tops of the filaments, stigmatic ends only slightly enlarged. 



The type is no. 7806, collected May i, 1905, on the first 

 ridge west of Keene station in the Tebachapi mountains, Kern 

 county, growing under or near trees. This is possibly the plant 

 which passes as L. teiiella in California, since it answers fairly 

 well to Greene's description in Flora Franciscana, but true te- 



