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O. D. Allen, No. 199 (UMH) ; along rivulets, Mt. Ranier, alt. 6,500 ft., August, 1895, 

 C. V. Piper, No. 2026 (UMH) ; north fork of Bridge Creek, Okanogan County, alt. 

 5,000 ft, September, 1897, A. D. E. Elmer, No. 691 (UMH) ; Olympic Mountains, 

 Clallam County, August, 1900, A. D. E. Elmer, No. 2644 (UMH), 



Montana: Sperry Glacier, Marcus E. Jones (UMH); mountain sides, Sperry 

 Glacier, September 1, 1903, L. M. Umbach, No. 812 (USNH 542027) ; Sperry Glacier, 

 upper temperate life zone, alt. 7,500 ft., Marcus E. Jones, Herbarium of the University 

 of Montana. 



Collections of this plant were by some earlier writers referred to S. leu- 

 canthcmijolia of the Appalachians, which is, however, distinct. Herbarium 

 specimens referred to Saxifraga Bongardi Presl. "in herb. Engler," are all 

 5". ferruginea. Engler (5) gives S. Bongardi Presl., S. notkana Moc. ic. 

 ined., and S. stellaris var. Brunoniana Bong, as synonyms of his S. leucan- 

 themifolia var. Brunoniana (Bong.) ic. ined. t. 422? ("in America bor. 

 occid. prope Notka.") as a synonym of his 5'. stellaris var. vulgaris (Ser. 

 MSS.). RosENDAHL (25), referring to Seringe, accepts Mocin's Saxifraga 

 notkana as a distinct species apart from 6". ferruginea, with a slight modifi- 

 cation of the orthography. As synonyms Rosendahl adjoins S. stellaris 

 var. Brunoniana Bong., 6'. Bongardi Presl., and S. leucanthemifolia var. 

 Brunoniana (Bong.) Engler. Contemporaneously with Rosendahl, Small, 

 in North American Flora 22:2:149, published two new species, under the 

 genus Spatularia Haw., namely Spatularia Nezvcomhei, the former based on 

 a collection by F. K. Vreeland 1048, from Glacier Basin, Montana, and the 

 latter on a collection from Queen Charlotte Islands (Torreya 2:55. 1902). 

 The range of the former, to quote Small, extends from "British Columbia 

 to Montana and Colorado." That of the latter is limited to "Queen Char- 

 lotte Islands, British America." At the same time Small recognizes Saxi- 

 fraga stellaris Brunoniana Bong, as a distinct species under the name Spatu- 

 laria Brunoniana (Bong.) Small, citing in addition as synonyms Saxifraga 

 leucanthemifolia Brunoniana Engler (!), Saxifraga notkana Moc, and 

 Saxifraga Bongardi Presl. Smali, also recognizes as distinct Saxifraga 

 ferruginea of Graham, under the name Spatularia ferruginea (Graham) 

 Small, giving its distribution as "Alaska to British Columbia," and adjoining 

 as a synonym Hexaphoma ferruginea Raf . Fl. Tell. 2 :^. 1836. Small's 

 descriptions of these four species fail to show any sound and stable char- 

 acters by which they may be recognized, and the single characters, made use 

 of in his key to separate the species, are fluctuating and unreliable. Spatu- 

 laria Vreelandii and vS. Brunoniana, for example, (along with S. bryophora 

 and S. foliolosa) are distingui.^hed from S. Newcomhei, and 5". ferruginea 

 (along with S. stellaris and 5". petiolaris (S. leucanthemifolia)) by the fact 

 that their inflorescences are bulblet-bearing, the inflorescences of the latter 

 being without bulblets. Further fine distinctions are made in regard to the 

 relative number of flowers and bulblets in distinguishing S. Brunoniana 



