162 LEAFLETS. 
to 18 inches high, glabrous, glaucescent: lowest leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate, 3 or 4 inches long, short-petioled, the cauline ovate- 
lanceolate to subcordate-ovate, the largest 2 inches long and 14 
inches in breadth toward the base: thyrsus large, at base leafy 
and the clusters on stout peduncles of an inch or more; both 
bracts of the inflorescence and the long sepals scarious-edged 
and laciniate: corolla purple, small for the plant, not more 
than 4 lines long, but broad for this group, the tube ventricose 
and segments short. 
Stony ground along stream banks at Semicon Colo., 24 July, 
1901, C. F. Baker, n. 588 as in U. S. Herb. 
P. @LAsTIFOLIUS. Allied to P. confertus, stouter, the few 
stems rigidly upright, with broad and short capitiform cluster 
of flowers at summit: leaves light-green, glabrous, thinnish, 
blades of the basal ones elliptical, 1 to 2 inches long, on slender 
petioles as long, the 3 pairs of the cauline spatulate-oblong, 
sessile, erect, obtuse, all entire: sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliolate, 
puberulent on the back, not scarious-margined: corollas 4 inch 
long, nearly tubular, with short limb. 
Mineral King, Sierra Nevada, Calif., 3 Aug., 1891, Coville & 
Funston, n. 1449, as in U. S. Herb. 
P. ALSINOIDES. Low suffrutescent slender ally of P. confertus, 
the loosely tufted stems only 5 or 6 inches high, decumbent or 
upright, all parts glabrous except the short capitiform inflores- 
cence: leaves nearly all obovate or obovate-lanceolate, more or 
less distinctly short-petioled, ł to 14 inches long, obtusish, thin- 
nish : sepals all linear-lanceolate and acuminate, with no trace 
of scarious margin, sparsely pubescent on the back: corollas 
very small, with nearly cylindric tube and comparatively ample 
limb. 
Near Big Cottonwood Meadows, Sierra Nevada, Calif., 20 
Aug., 1891, F. W. Koch, Death Valley Exp. n. 2138, as in U. 8. 
Herb. 
D DEPRESSUS. Akin to P. confertus but low, cespitose, with 
very stout woody branches 1 to 3 inches long clothed with small 
entire coriaceous leaves } inch long, elliptical, on short stout 
