198 



lar, naked or bearing two or three small leaves; root-leaves 

 roundish, ^' to i}4^ broad, subcordate, inciscly lobed, lobes crc- 

 nate-dentate ; calyx at time of flowering campanulate, about 2'' 

 long, minutely glandular; petals filiform, only a little longer than 

 calyx lobes; stamens not exserted at first, but slightly exsertcd 



later. 



Colorado. — Parry, No. 172, Greene; Georgetown, Patterson, 

 No. 31 ; Denver to Idaho City, Porter; Rocky Mts., Hall and 

 Har])our, No. 205, (in part); Grand Lake, Vasey, No. 217; 



James, (type of Tiarclla bractcata ) ; Gray's Peak. Nevada, — 

 Empire City, Gray. 



r 



\\\ Flowering calyx 3" to 5" long. 

 ■''■ Inllorcsccnce an open, spreading pnnicle. 



13. H. PUBESCENS, Pursh, i. 187, (1814). 



H. pnlveritlcuta and reniformis, Raf. Med. Fl. i. 243 and 



244, (1828). 

 //. ribifolia, Fisch. and Lall. in Ind. Sem. h. Pctrop. 8, G2y 



(1841). 

 Stems, usually bearing one or two small leaves, I'' to 3"^ high, 



densely glandular, at least above; root-leaves round-cordate, 2' 



to 4' broad, slightly 5 or 7 lobed, veins prominent; calyx at 



time of flowering oblong-campanulate, somewhat oblique, 3'' to 



4" long, minutely glandular, lobes often unequal ; petals broadly 



spatulate, veined, a little longer than calyx lobes; stamens hardly 



exsertcd, the anthers being on a level with the tips of the calyx 



lobes, sometimes, however, slightly exserted. 



Pennsylvania. — Lancaster Co., Small ; Birmingham, Miss 

 Davis; near Schuylkill River, Canby ; Banks of Susquehanna, 

 Porter; Warriorsmark, Lowrie ; Reading, Herb. Phil. Acad. 

 Maryland. — Alleghanics, Rafinesquc (//. grandifora, Raf. in 



Herb. Torr.) Mrginia, — Daubeny, Hot Springs, Curtiss. North 

 Carolina. — Vasey; Hick. Nut Gap, Curtiss, Asheville, Thos. 

 Hogg. AV/////^/^.— Rafinesque, (//. rcniformis, Raf. in Herb. 

 Gray) ; Bath, Short. 



** Inflorescence a narrow panicle. 



14. H. IIISPIDA. Pursh, i. 188, (1814). 



//. Richardsonii, R. Br., Frankl. Journ., 'j66, t. 29, (1823). 

 //. liicida^ Schlecht., Ind. Sem. h. Hal. 8, (1848). 

 Stems, usually leafless, 2"" to 4" high, hirsute, as are also the 

 petioles, with pale spreading hairs, and above minutely glandu- 



