Western Boykinia
Boykinia Occidentalis, Torr. And Gray. Saxifrage Family
Stems.—Slender; a foot or two high. Leaves.—Round-reniform; palmately three- to seven-lobed; one to three inches broad; the lobes coarsely toothed. Flowers.—In long-peduncled, loose panicles; white; four lines across; parts in fives. Calyx.—With acute teeth. Petals.—On the sinuses of the calyx. Stamens.—On the calyx, opposite its teeth. Filaments short. Ovary.—With its two cells attenuate into the slender styles. Hab.—Coast Ranges, from Santa Barbara to Washington.
The tufted leaves, and exquisitely delicate saxifrage-like clusters of the Boykinia, fringe our streams in early summer.