SAXIFRAGE FAMILY. 



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carmine-colored; filaments dilated toward the summit; ovary very 

 slightly united to the calyx, the carpels almost wholly united. 



Woods of the Coast Kanges: Austin Creek, Sonoma Co.; Ukiah 

 and northward. Apr. Panicle often bearing bulblets along the sides 

 of its branches. 



S. PELTATA Torr. is a remarkable species of the Sierras and Yallo 

 Bally Mountains, growing along swiftly flowing mountain streams; it 

 has peltate leaves 1 to 3£ ft. high and blades 1 to 2 ft. in diameter. 

 S. bryophora Gray, of the High Sierras, is 4 to 5 in. high, 

 with the scape branching into a very slender panicle; leaves linear- 

 oblong, acute, 3 to 7 lines long; petals 2-spotted toward the base. 

 The two preceding are acaulescent. S. Tolmiei T. & G., of the High 

 Sierras, has short leafy stems thickly covered with small evergreen 

 sessile leaves, and a few-flowered scape-like peduncle. 



2. BOYKINIA Nutt. 



Perennial herbs with creeping rootstocks. Stems simple, bearing 

 alternate leaves and paniculate or corymbose cymes of white flowers. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate or subglobose or ovate, adherent to the 2-celled 

 2-beaked capsule. Petals entire, with a short claw, deciduous. 

 Stamens 5, short. (In memory of Dr. Boy kin of Georgia.) 



1. B. elata (Nutt.) Greene. Erect, 2 ft. high or less, commonly 

 glandular-pubescent, the bases of the slender stems often clothed 

 with rusty hairs; leaves thin-membranaceous, shallowly lobed or 

 incised and serrate, 2 to 4 in. broad; petioles long, exstipulate, bearing 

 at base some rusty bristles; inflorescence a panicle of secund racemes; 

 flowers slightly irregular; calyx-lobes lanceolate-triangular; petals 

 narrow. 



Woods of the Coast Kanges; Sierras of Placer Co., Carpenter. 



B. major Gray, of the Sierras, may be distinguished by its con- 

 spicuous foliaceous stipules, corymbose-cymose flowers, regular corolla 

 and broad petals. 



3. TELLIMA R. Br. Star Flower. 

 Perennial herb with tuberous 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 

 campanulate 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. Stamens 10, included. 

 Ovary 1-celled, with 2 or 3 parietal placenta? and 2 or 3 very short 

 styles. Capsule conical. Seeds numerous. (Name an anagram of 

 Mitella.) 



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

 white, sometimes rose-tinted. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, the lower half of the ovary adherent 



1. T. affinis. 



Calyx truncate or rounded at base, the ovary almost wholly free 



2. T. htterophylla. 



Styles and placentae commonly 2; petals greenish, changing to pink or red, 

 sessile by a broad base, laciniate-pinnatirld 3. T. grandijiora. 



