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lar ; leaves rouncl-cordate to broadly ovate-cordate, 2' to 3' 

 broad; calyx at time of flowering campanulate, conspicuously 



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oblique, 3'' to 5^^ long, lobes unequal ; petals small, spatulate, a 

 little longer than calyx lobes ; stamens soon exserted, often be- 



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coming longer than the petals. 



Virginia. — Gray. Michigan. — Kalamazoo, Tuthill. Illinois. 

 •Babcock; Augusta, S. B. Mead; near Oquawka, Patterson; 

 Ringwood, Vasey ; Marion Co., Bebb; Winnebago Co., Bebb ; 

 Athens, E. Hall. Wisconsin. — Madison, S. H. Watson, Hale. 

 lozva. — Decorah, Collctt. Minnesota. — Bassvvood Lake, Arthur, 

 No. '431 (B.) Dakota.— V>o^ Elder Creek, W. S. Rusby, Mon- 

 tana — Park Co., Tweedy, No. 259; l?ozeman Pass, Canby, No. 

 116, (distrib. as H. cylindrica). Idaho. — Allen. British Anier- 

 /V^7.__Hooker; English River, Kcnnicott ; Lake Superior, Ma- 

 coun ; Lake Winnepeg, (Dr. Gunn, in Herb. Torrey) ; Lake 

 Winncpeg Valley, Bourgeau ; Saskatchawan, Bourgeau ; Assini- 

 boia; Sourie Plains, Macoun, No. 733 ; Rocky Mts., Kananaskis, 



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Van IIIRSUTICAULIS, n. var. 



Plirsute; stems for their entire length, as well as petioles and 

 larger veins on lower surface of leaves, thickly beset with white 

 or slightly yellowish spreading hairs; stems i"" to 2" high, naked, 

 or bearing one or two very small leaves or laciniate bracts; root 



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leaves round-cordate with a broad and deep sinus at base, i' to 3^ 

 broad, with 5 or 7 obtuse lobes, lobes crenate-apiculate, margin 

 ciliatc, upper surface glaucous, or nearly so, lower surface pale ; 

 calyx at time of flowering campanulate, rather short and broad, 

 about 2^' long, very slightly, if at all, oblique, minutely glandu- 

 lar, parted almost halfway down, lobes somewhat unequal, ob- 

 tuse, green, base of calyx often brownish ; petals small, spatulate, 

 green, looking like smaller calyx lobes, and like them minutel)^ 

 glandular, not projecting beyond calyx lobes ; stamens much ex- 

 serted; seeds numerous, about %^^ long, dark brown, muricatc. 

 oblong, curved, triangular in section. 



Missouri. — St. Louis, Engelmann ; Louisiana, Pech. 

 This plant differs from //. Jiispida mainly in having 



open 



spreading panicle, and much smaller flowers. It may, perhaps, 

 be a distinct species, but as there appear to be intermediate forms, 

 it would seem best, for the present at least, to consider it a 

 variety. 



