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3. TELLIMA R. Br. 

 Perennial herbs with rootstocks. Stems simple, bearing a simple terminal 

 raceme of white, pink or red flowers. Leaves chiefly radical, their petioles 

 with stipule-like dilations at the base. Calyx campannlate or turbinate; the 

 lower part of the tube adherent to the base or lower half of the ovary. Petals 

 inserted in the sinuses of the calyx, cleft or toothed, sometimes entire. Sta- 

 mens 10, included. Ovary 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal placentae and 2 or 3 

 very short stvles. Capsule conical. Seeds numerous. (Name an anagram 

 of Mitella.) 



Styles and placentae commonly 3; petals clawed, cleft or entire, usually white, sometimes 

 rose-tinted; rootstocks tuberous or with grain like bulblets. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, the lower half of the ovary adherent 1. T. afhnis. 



Calyx truncate or rounded at base, the ovary almost wholly free.... 2. T. heterophylla. 



Styles and placentae commonly 2; petals whitish, changing to red, sessile by a broad base, 



laciniate-pinnatifid; rootstock stout but not tuberous 3. T. grandiliora. 



1. T. affinis (Gray) Boland. "Star of Bethlehem." Stems 9 to 16 

 in. high, hispidulous, the hairs spreading and glandular; radical leaves often 

 bronze-brown, roundish in outline and crenately lobed, varying into the cauline; 

 cauline mostly parted into 3 broad divisions which are deeply incised or 

 merely toothed; pedicels about equaling the turbinate calyx; raceme 7 to 

 10-flowered; petals mostly 3-toothed at apex, the central lobe rather larger; 

 ovary half inferior, the styles and placentae commonly 3, as also in the 

 next. 



Common in open ground or open woods: Coast Kanges and Sierra Xevada. 



2. T. heterophylla H. & A. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high; herbage hirsute- or 

 somewhat scabrous-pubescent ; radical leaves roundish, crenately lobed, % to 

 1% i n - broad, the cauline very variable but mostly 3-parted with the divisions 

 incised or toothed; calyx campanulate, truncate or rounded at base; petals 

 with a stout tooth on each side. 



Shady ground, rather common: Coast Eanges. Var. bolaxderi Jepson. 

 Petals entire or with a small tooth on each side. 



3. T. grandiflora (Pursh) Dougl. Fringe-cups. Stems 1% to 2% ft. 

 high, hirsute with spreading hairs, as also the petioles; leaves roundish in out- 

 line, cordate at base, shallowly 3 to 5-lobed, serrate or crenate, 2 to 4 in. broad, 

 the radical on petioles 2 to 9 in. long ; raceme elongated, many-flowere.! ; 

 pedicels shorter than the (3^ lines long) flowers; calyx 10-nerved, inflated- 

 eampanulate, 4 to 5 lines long, its teeth erect; petals reflexed, at first whitish, 

 changing to deep red, the upper portion laciniately cleft into subulate segments, 

 the lower portion toothed; filaments scarcely as long as the anthers; ovary al- 

 most completely inferior, with 2 parietal placentae alternate with as many 

 styles. 



Coast Eange woods from Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Oakland Hills 

 northward. One of the plants which follows very closely the distribution of the 

 Eedwood. Apr. -May. 



4. TIARELLA L. False Mitre- wort. 

 Perennial herbs with white flowers in a terminal raceme or panicle. Calyx 

 almost free from the ovary, its lobes ovate. Petals very narrow, with short 

 claws. Stamens 10, long and slender. Ovary 1-celled, compressed, 2-horned, 

 the horns tapering into the long filiform styles. Capsule membranous, early 

 dehiscent; valves unequal, one becoming elongated, tin- other remaining short. 

 Seeds few at the l>a><- of each parietal placenta. (Diminutive of the Greek 

 tiara, a high cap, in allusion to the pistil.) 



