Rustyhair Saxifrage

Micranthes aequidentata Small, sp. nov
Leaves spreading or ascending, 2-8 cm. long, the blades typically ovate, oblong-ovate or oval, more or less pubescent beneath with reddish hairs, crenate, cuneately narrowed or truncate at the base ; scapes 7-18 cm. tall, green or occasionally purple-tinged, thinly glandular-pubescent, very closely so above, rather corymbosely branched, the peduncles and pedicels elongated in age; cymules ultimately lax, few-flowered; sepals ovate or oblong, 1.5-2 mm. long, sometimes ciliolate, reflexed; petals white, 3-4 mm. long, oblong, notched at the apex, abruptly narrowed at the base ; filaments broadly clavate ; follicles 3-4 mm. high, green or purple-tinged, the rather slender tips spreading.
Type collected at the Lower Cascades, Skamania County, Washington, May 29, 1886, by W. N. Suksdorf, no. 967.
Distribution : Washington.

Micranthes rufidula Small, sp. nov
Leaves ascending or somewhat spreading, 1-3.5 cm. long, the blades very thick, ovate or oval, finely and rather deeply crenate, bright-green and glabrous or essentially so above, densely red-tomentose beneath, narrowed into rather broad petiole-like bases, whose partly sheathing bases are persistent on the short caudex ; scapes typically solitary, 5-15 cm. tall, purple, pubescent below, like the lower surface of the leaf-blades, glabrous or merely inconspicuously pubescent above, corymbosely branched ; cymules open, few-flowered, the peduncles and pedicels glabrous or nearly so, purple ; sepals broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, about 2 mm. long, glabrous, obtuse ; petals white, 4-5 mm. long, orbicular-ovate or or^icular-obovate beyond the short claw ; filaments subulate, about as long as the sepals ; follicles 3-3.5 mm. high, deep-purple, the stout tips spreading at maturity.
Type collected on Mt. Finlayson, Vancouver Island, May 17, 1887, by John Macoun. Distribution : British Columbia.