88 Rhodora [JUNE 
acute or acutish, somewhat fleshy, the median 2-5.5 cm. long, 2-6 
mm. wide: peduncles 2-9 cm. long: calyx herbaceous, unequally cleft 
to about the middle, 4-lobed; the lobes all subulate-acuminate at 
tip; the longer lanceolate, 0.6-1.5 cm. long; the shorter ovate, 0.45-1.2 
em. long; the keels glabrous or only obscurely granulose: corolla 
deep-blue, 2-4 cm. long, cleft nearly half its length, 4-lobed; the lobes 
oblong-obovate, only obscurely veiny, strongly ascending, uniformly 
dentate to lacerate-fimbriate on summit and often on the sides: 
filaments winged, naked: pistil fusiform, stipitate; the stipe about 
5 mm. long; style definite, about 2 rhm. long; stigma subreniform: 
mature capsule shorter than the corolla, becoming subsessile: seed 
conspicuously papillose.—QvEBEc: tidal shores of the River St. 
Lawrence from above the city of Quebec to L’Islet. The following 
specimens have been studied. Cap-Rouge, prés du Pont de Québec, 
sur le rivage à portée de la marée haute, August 9, 1922, Fr. Rolland, 
ro. 16,070; Cap-Rouge, un mille plus haut que le Pont de Québec, 
sur le rivage à portée de la marée, August 9, 1922, Fr. Marie-V ictorin, 
no. 16,073 (TYPE in Gray Herb.); Quebec, 1860, Charles Pickering; 
rivage, à portée de la marée, St.-Laurent de l'Ile d'Orleans, August 
6, 1922, Marie-Victorin, no. 17,071; rocks near the shore, L’Islet, 
August, 1916, Marie -Victorin, no. 3183. 
The relationships of G. Victorinitand the other species of the section 
Crossopetalae in eastern America are indicated in the appended key. 
A. Upper leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, broadly rounded 
or subcordate at base: upper half of the corolla-lobes 
fimbriate with a uniformly long fringe 2-6 mm long: 
capsule distinctly stipitate ................. 2. G. crinita Froel. 
(Eastern states, north to Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, 
southern and eastern Ontario, western and central New 
York, Rutland Co., Vermont, Grafton Co., New Hamp- 
shire and central Maine.) 
A. Upper leaves linear, linear-lanceolate, narrowly oblong 
or spatulate; fringe of corolla-lobes of varying lengths, 
often long below but of short triangular teeth (less than 
2 mm. long) above; capsule sessile or stipitate B. 
B. Upper leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or 
acutish: calyx with all 4 lobes attenuate or the 2 
broader at least acute C. 
C. Elongate leaves (above the basal rosette) 8-13 
pairs below the primary peduncle: calyx-lobes 
with strongly papillose-scabrous keels; the longer 
lobes 1-3 cm. long: corolla 2-5.5 em. long, with 
spreading-ascending lobes: ovary nearly or quite 
AA AA G. procera Holm. 
(Manitoba and Iowa eastward to western New 
York.) 
C. Elongate leaves (above the basal rosette) 3-7 (-9) 
pairs below the primary peduncle: calyx-lobes with 
smooth or only granulose keels; the longer lobes 
0.5-1.5 em. long; corolla 2-4 cm. long, with 
strongly ascending lobes. 
