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style frequently exserted, its obconical apex mostly deeply 
4-parted; capsules long-stalked, more or less puberulent ; 
seeds obovoid, very acute at base, smooth or slightly 
areolated, .5 x 1.25 mm. ; coma at length reddish. — FI. i. 
(1814), 259; Watson, Index, 365; Haussknecht, Monogr. 
245; Barbey & Cuisin, pl. 1.— Oregon to Alaska and the 
islands of the Northwest, east to the Selkirk Range of 
’ BritishColumbia. Also in eastern Siberia, fide Ledebour. — 
Specimens examined from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, 
and the Selkirk Range (Macoun). 
+ + Capsules rather short, subclavate-fusiform, fewer-seeded. — 
Rather low and slender-stemmed more or less cespitose plants, with 
bark usually somewhat papery-exfoliating at base. 
+ Leavesrather broad: flowers large, rose-purple: style shorter than 
the petals: seeds oblong-fusiform, papillate (except in the first?). 
4, E. riagipum, Hausskn.— A span or two high, sub- 
simple, glabrous and rather glossy at base, glandular-pubes- 
cent above; leaves about 40 mm. long, the upper more or 
less alternate, lanceolate to nearly obovate, acute, entire, 
frequently oblique, cuneately narrowed into short winged 
petioles, glabrous and very glaucous, firm, with mostly in- 
conspicuous lateral veins; flowers rather few in the axils of 
the reduced upper leaves which are often adnate to the 
bases of the peduncles; ovary densely white-glandular ; 
calyx cleft to within 1 mm. of the base, open; petals 15 
to 20 mm. long; stigma very large, its surface pilose- 
papillate; seeds (immature) apparently smooth. — Oesterr. 
bot. Zeitschr. xxix. (1879 ),51 ; Monogr. 249, pl. 13, f. 64. — 
Southern Oregon: Coast Range, lat. 42° (fide Hauss- 
knecht); Waldo (Howell, July 1888, distributed as 
No. 698). — Plate 5. 
Var. CANESCENS. — Densely velvety-canescent through- 
out. —Waldo, Oregon ( Howell, July 12, 1887, No. 698). 
5. E. opcorpatuM, Gray. — About a span high, con- 
siderably branched near the base and sometimes with long 
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