166 LEAFLETS. 
P. MILITARIS. Tufted stems stoutish, upright, a foot high, 
leafy with large elliptic-lanceolate sessile leaves, glabrous, 
except as to the short capitiform thrysus, not glaucous: leaves 
3 inches long, equalling the internodes, entire, acute: sepals 
lanceolate, acuminate, narrowly scarious-edged, sparsely pubes- 
cent with curled hairs: corolla 8 lines long, with ventricose 
tube and bilabiate limb, the whole sparsely hairy without, the 
lip but lightly bearded: sterile filament bearded strongly at the 
very tip only. 
Soldier Mountains, Idaho, L, F. Henderson, n. 3395, as in U. 
S. Herb., labelled P. confertus, and a true ally of that species. 
P. PROPINQUUS, Of the group of P. confertus and allied to 
P. militaris but of widely dissimilar habit, showing copious 
basal and scanty cauline foliage, the stems only 8 inches high and 
from a subligneous branching crown or rootstock: basal leaves 
2 inches long, of obovate-elliptic blade and short petiole, the 
few cauline reduced, oblanceolate, all acute, glabrous, thin: 
thyrsus either capitiform or with a smaller cluster of flowers an 
inch below it: calyx elongated, the sepals subquadrate-oblong 
or even spatulate-oblong, abruptly acuminate, their scarious 
margins as wide as the herbaceous middle portion, the whole 
calyx sparsely pubescent: corolla 4 inch long, dark-purple, 
slightly ventricose, the lower lip strongly bearded, also the sterile 
filament at tip. 
Blue Mountains, Oregon, at 8,250 feet, F. V. Coville, 13 ‘July, 
1896, n. 549, as in U. S. Herb. 
P. propuctus. ‘Tufted stems a foot high or more, herbage 
deep green, glabrous flowers of P. confertus group: basal leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate, slender-petioled ; cauline narrowly to broadly 
lanceolate, sessile : inflorescence mostly crowded and subcapitate 
but flowers not small: body of sepals lanceolate or linear, sca- 
rious edged, but ending inan equally long wholly herbaceous 
slenderly attenuate point, its very apex recurved : corolla purple, 
with uncommonly long and slender tube slightly widening 
upwards, hardly at all ventricose, } inch long ; segments a little 
elongated : sterile filament bearded for half its length or more. 
Stein’s Mountain, Oregon, 1896, J. B. Leiberg, n. 2,384, as in 
U. S. Herb. 
