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A COMMON NAME FOR PHACELIA PURSHII 



In the September-October, 1923, number of Torreya, I was 

 interested in Professor Hansen's note on PhaceUa Piirshii, since 

 I had never observed the tendency he describes, although the 

 plant was familiar to me in my youth. I do not question the 

 writer's observations at all, but when he states that the plant 

 has no recognized common name, I want to tell him about one 

 that we used in western Ohio, in the valley of the Great Miami 

 River. We called it "Miami Mist," and I learned the name 

 from the late A. H. Vance, naturalist and lover of wild flowers, 

 of Troy, Ohio. And this common name may be found in 

 A Class-Book of Botany, by Alphonso Wood, 1853 ed., p. 437. 



G. Clyde Fisher 



A NEW SAXIFRAGE FROM OREGON 



Saxifraga Gormani, sp. nov. 



Perennial; rootstock horizontal, short; scape erect, densely 

 covered with glandular, reddish pubescence; 2-3 dm. high; the 

 rather broad panicle l4-H as long. Leaves basal, deltoid-ovate 

 or elliptical, or rarely nearly orbicular, the larger ones 3-4 cm. 

 long, sometimes slightly cordate at base, mostly short-petioled, 

 upper side glabrous, the lower with sparse, brown pubescence, 

 the margin crenate or only slightly wavy, more or less ciliate or 

 puberulent. Branches of the panicle terminated by short, 

 mostly few-flowered cymes; bracts lanceolate, 5-10 mm. long, 

 or the upper shorter; pedicels 5-10 mm. long. Calyx glabrous, 

 with very short tube; lobes ovate or roundish, reflexed, about 2 

 mm. long. Petals on short claws, elliptical, white, about 3 mm. 

 long. Stamens a little shorter than the corolla; the filaments 

 club-shaped but acute at the upper end, white; the anthers 

 about as long as broad, orange-yellow. Ovaries 2, free from the 

 calyx and from each other, greenish with a yellowish disk at 

 base, the stigma nearly sessile at first. The ripe carpels 3-4 mm. 

 long, conical-ovate, the upper part curved outward; the style 

 about 0.5 mm. long. Seeds 0.5 mm. long, ovate or oblong, 

 obtuse or acutish at the ends, brownish. — Collected by Mr. 

 M. W. Gorman on moist rocky slopes. Elk Rock, Multnomah 

 County, Oregon, June 2, 1917, No. 4081. — This species is much 



