communicated by Mr. F. R. 8S. Balfour, of Dawyck, who 
lifted the roots in the valley of the Olympic Mountains 
whence came the plant of P. uliginosa figured along with 
P. bracteata. At Dawyck P. bracteata has been grown 
along with P. uliginosa in a Vaccinium bed in a soil of 
peat and leaf mould with sand admixed. The subsoil is 
gravel; the bed is at the base of a steep bank covered 
with high trees, and is in close proximity to a stream. 
The site is thus well shaded and the atmosphere con-. 
stantly moist. There are several points which render the 
discrimination of P. bracteata from P. uliginosa far from 
difficult, notwithstanding the resemblance they bear to 
each other. In P. bracteata the leaves are usually acute and 
the veins end in distinct, though minute marginal teeth. 
The bracts in P. bracteata are larger, the calyx teeth are 
longer and of a different shape; the petals are longer 
and narrower, and when fully expanded give the flower a 
2-lipped appearance ; moreover, the anthers are yellow, 
not purple or rose as in P. wliginosa. Gray states that, 
at times, the leaves of P. bracteata are variegated with 
whitish bands. The two vernacular names are used, 
according to Parsons and Buck, in California, where a 
preparation possessing astringent properties is made 
from the plant and is used medicinally as a tonic and 
diuretic. : 
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Dxscription.—Herb, perennial, with a long creeping rootstock; stem up to 
2 in. in theight. Leaves nearly orbicular, or ovate or elliptic, apex generally 
acute, base subcordate, rounded or slightly cuneate, minutely and distantly but 
distinctly toothed, up to 3 in. long and 2 in. wide, thin, quite glabrous, dark 
green and shining above, paler and often reddish beneath; petiole up to 4 in. 
long, sharply 3-angled. Scape erect, 8-12 in. high, glabrous, ridged, with 1-3 
wide-lanceolate, membranous, acuminate scales, 2~3 in. long. Raceme 2}-4 in. 
long, 10-25-flowered; bracts lanceolate, or wide-lanceolate, membranous, 
acuminate, longer than the pedicels, often rose-coloured ; pedicels 1-} in, long. 
Calyx 5-lobed; lobes lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, about 
@ in. long, under 7; in. wide at the base. Corolla bright red-purple or rose- 
coloured, 3-3 in. across; petals elliptic-oblong, rounded or somewhat acute, 
3-3 in. long, about } in. wide. Stamens 10, aggregated, ascending; anthers 
greenish-yellow, their cells distinctly mucronate at the base. Ovary depressed- 
globose, glabrous, 5-lobed; style declinate, 3-2 in. long, annulate near the 
apex ; stigma 5-lobulate. Fruit depressed-globose, about 4 in. across. 
Tas. 8710 s.—Fig. 5, portion of margin of a leaf; 6, calyx and pistil; 7 and 8, 
anthers :—all enlarged, 
