11G BOTANY. 



Rosa Californica, Cli. & Schl. — The Survey has specimens from 

 Nevada and Utah, which, according to Mr. Watson, are the same as those 

 considered by him in King's Report as Ii. hlanda. 



Amelanciiier alnifolia, Nutt. — Colorado (3GG) ; Nevada. 



SAXIFRAGES. 



Saxifraga Hirculus, L. — Stem 2-8' high, strict, and with lanceolate, 

 entire leaves (at base 3-6" long), regularly diminishing in size to the sum- 

 mit of the stem ; pedicels and summit of the stem more or less densely 

 clothed with a rusty tomentum (nearly glabrous sometimes) ; flowers 1-4, 

 yellow, 5-8" in diameter ; sepals obtuse, reflexed, and one-fourth as long as 

 the petals. — Twin Lakes, Colorado (799). 



Saxifraga chrysantha, Gray (Proc. Am. Acad, xii, p. 83). (S. ser- 

 pyllifolia, Gray, in Report of Wheeler's Survey, 1874.) Perennial, stolons 

 creeping, leafy, filiform ; leaves at base of scape spatulate, obtuse, 2-4" 

 long, entire, thickish, shining, midrib indistinct; scape, 1-2-flowered, !-.'>' 

 high, slender, with 2-6 bract-like leaves ; flowers bright yellow, 6-8" in 

 diameter; petals sessile or with a very short claw, truncate at base, rounded 

 at apex, 2-3 times longer than the reflexed sepals ; slightly 2-lobed capsule 

 broad-ovate. — Silver Heels Mountain, Colorado, at 12,000 feet altitude 

 (799 bis). 



Saxifraga flagellars, Willd. — South Park, Colorado, at 12,500 feet 

 altitude (797). 



Saxifraga bronchialis, L. — Stems ascending, 1-6' high, from among 

 the old leaves of the previous year ; radical leaves lanceolate, acute, densely 

 crowded, and ciliated with projecting, cartilaginous hairs, mucronate, 3-7" 

 long. Stem-leaves linear, less ciliated, and somewhat appressed to the 

 stem ; flowers corymbose, with a bract at each branch of the corymb ; petals 

 white, spotted with purple, exceeding the sepals. — Twin Lakes, Colo- 

 rado (802). 



Saxifraga adscendens, L. (S. controversy Sternb.) — Low, 1-2' high; 

 root-leaves clustered, somewhat cuneate at base and 3-parted at the apex ; 

 short stems with a few bract-like leaves, few-flowered ; calyx-lobes obtuse, 

 not longer than the tube; petals yellowish white, a little longer than the 



