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80. S. CANDIDA (sp. nov.): caule folioso inferne petiolisque parce hirtellis; foliis inferioribus et radicalibus orbiculatis sinu clausis 7-lobatis lævibus ciliolatis, lobis cuneato-rotundatis grosse 3–5-crenatis incisisve, supremis 7- (floralibus 3–5-) partitis, segmentis lanceolatis integris; stipulis ovalibus; racemo brevi compacto glandulosi-tomentoso; pedicellis brevissimis; calycis tomentosi laciniis ovatis obtusiusculis; corolla alba; coccis lævibus glabris angulo interno apiculo pubescente mucronatis. — Gray, Gen. Ill. t. 224. — Along Santa Fé Creek; June, July. Plant 18 inches high; the stems simple from a perennial creeping rhizoma, glabrous except from the scattered bristly hairs below: the smooth leaves almong exactly orbicular in circumscription, 2 to 2½ inches in diameter. Raceme spicate, only 3 or 4 inches long, densely flowered, not elongating in fruit, leafy at the base, glandular-downy, as well as the calyx; the upper bracts linear or lanceolate and a little longer than the pedicels: the latter are spreading, shorter than the calyx, 2 to 3 lines long. Petals apparently pure white, obovate, over half an inch long. Stamineal column slender, hairy (as in the other species), the phalanges less distinct than the foregoing. Anthers blue. Carpels 9 or 10, cochleate-reniform, minutely apiculate at the inner angle. — A remarkable variety of this fine species, having larger cauline leaves with a very open sinus, and subsessile flowers, was gathered by Col. Fremont in his third expedition, probably in the Rocky Mountains.

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