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transversim sulcatis, radicibus granulatis.— Z)oM^7a5 in Bot Reg. L 1198, in BoL Mag, 

 t 2952. 



Hab. Common on the shores of the Pacific, between 40° and 49*^ north latitude, or from Cape Mendo- 

 cino to Puget Sound. Douglas. — The g^nulated roots of this speries, when roasted on tlie embers, yield a 

 farinaceous substance, which is in high esteem among the Chenook liidiaub a.^ aii iuticle of food, and is called 

 in their language " SomuchtwC Douglas. 



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15. L, cdbicauUs ; caule elato foliisque nnmerosis minute pubescenti-sericeis pube snb- 

 fulvescentCj foliolis 7-9 spatliulatolanceolatis niucroiuills, lloiibus pkiisque verticillatis 

 ebracteolatis, bracteis subulatis subpersi stent ibiis pctliccllos sericcos axpiantibus, cal^cis 

 fulvo-sericei labio utroque integro. — Douglas^ MSS. in Herb, Hort. Soc. 



Hau. About Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia. Douglas. — Specimens of this, exclusive of the root, 

 are two feet long, erect, clothed (as is the whole plant) with a short tawny silky down, and beai-iug 

 many short leafy branches. The racemes are from eight to ten inches long, remarkable for their numerous 

 persistent bracteas, and the fulvous silky dense spreading hairs ^\ ith which the calyx and pedicils arc clothed. 

 The petals appeal* to have beeu pui'ple, and to have chauged in drying to a tawny brown. This species is a 

 very handsome and distinct one, .Utliough its character, and that of all of the genus, is very difficult to I)e 

 described in words. On that account, I have much satisfaction iu being able to refer to the numcrnus and 

 excellent figures and descriptions in the Botanical Register, talvou from the living plants, of so many of ^Ir. 

 Douglas's discoveries. The present is one of the few, however, w hich does uot appear to be in cultivation. Iu 

 the dry state of the plant there is nothing to account for the specific imiue which its author hua assigned to it. 



16. Z>. aridus ; berbaceus, (sericeo-) birsutissimus, floribus verticillatis pedicellatis brac- 

 teolatis, calycis labio superlore bifido, inferiore integro, foliolis 5-9 liueari-lanceolatis villosis, 

 stipulis subulatis. — Douglas in Bot Reg, L 1212. 



Hab, Dry sandy barren deserts of the Columbia; extending from the Great Falls of that river to the 

 soiwces of the Missouri. Douglas. 



17. L. leucophyllus ; lierbaceus, villosissimus, iloribus alteruis pedicellatis bractcolatis, 

 calycis labio superiore bifido, inferiore integro, foliis digitatis, foliolis 7-9 oblongo-lancco- 

 latisj stipulis subulatis lanatis, Lindl, — Douglas in Bot Reg. t 1121, 



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Hab. Woodless sandy deserts from the Great Falls of the River Columbia, in North -West America, to 

 the sources of the Missouri, amoug the Rocky Mountains. Douglas. — This is a very fiue species, liaving 

 white flowers, or tinged with pink, and the whole stem and foliage and dense racemes (save the corolljisj 

 clothed with compact silky hairs- Mr. Liudley observes that this species should rank next to tbc L. alopc- 

 curoides of Desrousseaux, a native of Quito. 



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18. L, plumosus ; perennis, (sericeo-) villosissimus, floribus alteniis breviter pedicellatis 

 bracteolatis, calycis labio superiore bifido, inferiore integro, foliolis 5-7 lanccolatis, legunii- 

 nibus glabris 3-5-spermis, bracteis floribus longioribus villosis deciduis. — Drmglofi in Bot, 



Reg, t 1217. 



Hab. " In North California, lat. 45°, growing iu gravelly soil, at the sources of the M'allahwallah rivnr, 

 near the Blue Mountains." Douglas, — Allied to tlie preceding, " from » hich it is principally distiugui^hc'd by 

 its laro-er and less crowded flowers, and by the long, deciduous, shaggy bructeaa, which clothe the upper 

 uijexpauded part of the raceme so closely as to give it a comose appearance." Lindl. 



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