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leaves pene crenately lobed, cauline ones 3-lobed or entire; lobes of the 
calyx ovate, obtusish, at length shorter than the tube; petals ovate, 
obtuse, rina longer than the calyx, white or ae pam tube o ig calyx 
obconical, wholly adherent to the ovary; styles very short; stigma 
capitate. Alpine—Hall & Harbour, 198. Sangre a Cristo Pass, Bran- 
SAaxt AGA ge L. Stem 1-6-flowered, leafy; leaves lance- 
olate, oa d, no iate ; pedicels and upper part of the stem more or 
less hairy, not conde: sepals usually ciliate, obtuse, much shorter 
than the obova e, many- nerv petals retlexed ; flowers very large, yellow; 
style very short’; stigma ioral athig at first inflexed, at length divari- 
cate.—‘ South Park, in wet or swampy places.” Hall & Harbour, 201; 
SAXIFRAGA SERPYLLIFOLIA, Pursh. Dwarf, caespitose, shoots creep- — 
ing ; pene oe imbricated, somewhat refle xed, oblong-obovate, » 
thick, 3-4” long, very smooth ; stem filiform, few-leaved, slightly glan- 
dular-pubescent, 1/2’ high, 1-3-flowered ; calyx not adherent to the 
ovary, the segments reflexed, obtuse, much shorter than the broadly- 
obovate, yellow, 3-nerved petals. Alpine.—Hall & Harbour, 199. Gray’ 8 
Peak, Dr. Smith. Sangre de Cristo Pass, Brandegee. Gray’s Peak at 
12 zi foes Redfield. 
Sax A FLAGELLARIS, Willd. Glandular-pubeseent; stems sim- 
ple, 4 6] high, leafy, 1-5-flo ower ed; stolons from the axils of the radical 
leaves long and filifo orm, naked and rooting at the ai leaves obovate- 
spatulate, ‘ciliate, lower much crowded, the upper oblong or linear; flow- 
ers large, yellow, 3-4” long; sepals very glandular, united at the base 
and slightly coherent with the ovary; petals persistent, 3//-4’ long, 
longer than the capsule. Alpine.—Hall & Harbour, 200; Parry. Mount 
Lincoln at 13,000 feet altitude, eco 
ial; stems ascending, slender, 
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a long, spay Medina | dpi ea 3/8! High: sep? ls lanceolate or ov pd 
purp lish AN ack Taentie ng the sepals ; styles an sti igmas cn 
vergent during flowering.—Rocky places. a arbour, 197; Par 
B. H. Smith ; Canby ; i Porter. Mount Lincoln at 10, 000 feet, altitude 
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and Twin Takes ses 
AXIF PUN A, L. (8. estivalis, Fisch.) Perennial, villous- 
pubese pa a nearly pa leaves radical, 1/—2/ in diameter, long- 
gta roundish, reniform o rR a equally and deeply dentate, 
th mostly ncate; sa slender, naked, 19-1§° high, the pe- 
Scone and pedice s of the usually o ox panicle glandular; bracts 
small, linear; sar white oval, or orbicular, obtuse, “exceeding the ob- 
tuse, ovate-oblong, reflexed sepals; filaments often petaloid and a abor- 
tive; ov hal ag distinet below the middle. — Hall arbour, 207. Pike’s 
Peak, 0 anby. Gray’s Peak, Dr. Smith. Mount Lincoln, at 12-14,000 teet 
aiid, a gpeagh La Plata, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter 
ARIS, L., var. comosa, Willd. Meant Sivane at 
AXIFRAGA NIVALIS, L. Perennial; leaves all radieal, ovate or obo- 
io attenuate into a broad petiole, unequally crenate-dentate; seape 
, 3-12 high, capitately or sub-co rymbosely several to many- 
; the halt-adherent calyx ae. gee than the oblong , obtuse, 
