Neues aus: Flora of the State of Washington. V, 159: 
as the corolla tube, and in fruit exceeded by the nutlets; corolla blue, 
12 mm long, the tube about twice as long as the slightly enlarged 
throat; filaments dilated, shorter than the anthers; nutlets pale, distinctly 
keeled on the back, slightly tuberculate, the triangular scar central. 
Collected by G. R. Vasey in the Cascade Mountains of central 
Washington in 1889. The type sheet is in the U. S. National Herbarium, 
no. 296759. 
163. Mertensia brachycalyx Piper, l. c., p. 477. 
Whole plant glabrous except the ciliate margins of the leaves and 
calyx lobes; stems stout, erect, leafy, a meter or more high; leaves. 
bright green, lance-vate, or the lower cauline lanceolate, smooth beneath, 
usually papillose above, 5 to 10 cm long, the lower ones petioled; in- 
florescence leafy and open, the flowers in small clusters subtended by a 
pair of leafy bracts on slender branches; calyx small, glabrous, the short 
triangular acute lobes often unequal; corolla blue, about 12 mm long, 
the tube as long as the strongly ampliate throat; filaments dilated,. 
much shorter than the anthers; fruit whitish, nearly smooth, convex 
on back. 
Collected near Nason Creek, Chelan County, at an altitude of 
1400 meters by Sandberg & Leiberg, no. 678, August 14, 1893, the 
type in the U. S. National Herbarium. 
164. Mertensia leptophylla Piper, J. c., p. 478. 
Stems glabrous, stout, erect, a meter or more high; leaves ovate,. 
acute, pilose beneath, glabrous above, ciliate, very thin, the blades 6 to 
10 cm long, all on margined petioles 1 to 3 cm long; inflorescence loose ;: 
pedicels with spreading pubescence; calyx parted nearly to base, the 
lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute, ciliate, smooth on the back; 
Corolla blue, about 12 mm long, the slightly enlarged throat as long as. 
the tube; filaments dilated, shorter than the anthers. 
Known only from the Olympic Mountains of Clallam County, the 
type collected by Elmer, no. 2826, July 1900, sheet no. 402139 in the 
U. S. National Herbarium. The plant was also collected on Mount Storm. 
King by Lawrence, no. 359, July 23, 1904. 
165. Mertensia pulchella Piper, |. c., p. 478. | 
Stems erect, solitary or rarely two, glabrous, 15 to 20 em high; 
tubers shallow-seated, simple or fasciculate-branched, black; leaves green, 
elliptic or ovate, mostly obtuse, thickish, glabrous beneath, more or less 
Papillose above, scabrous-ciliate, the lower narrowed at base and short- 
Petioled, the middle and upper ones ovate, sessile, often half-clasping,. 
2 to 10 cm long; lowest leaves much reduced, scarious; flowers in a 
close cluster, usually 10 to 15; calyx parted nearly to the base, the lobes 
oblong-lanceolate very acute, denticulate; corolla blue, its tube three to: 
four times as long as the calyx and nearly as broad as the ampliate 
mb; filaments dilated, as long as the anthers; nutlets small, dark gray, 
hely Muriculate, attached by a pale and prominent scar, inclosed in the 
"be of the much enlarged fruiting calyx. 
