644 Rydbkrg : Spfxies from Western United States 



taller habit, the more branched cyme, the more acuminate sepals, 

 which in the type specimens are not reflcxed. and the petals, which 

 are not rctusc or emarginatc as in that species. 



1S95,/. Jl^. Congdon (type in the 



California : 



herbarium of T. S. Brandcgee). 



Mertensia tubiflora 



Perennial ; stem 2-3 dm. high, glabrous striate, and somewhat 

 angled, branched above ; basal leaves oblanceolatc, short petioled; 

 stem-leaves sessile, lanceolate to ovate, about 4 cm. long and 1-2 

 cm. wide, glabrate, exce2:)t the hispid ciliolate margins, muricate 

 above, obtuse ; panicle contracted; pedicels very slender and 

 drooping, about i cm. long, strigulose ; calyx slightly strigose, 

 about 4 mm. long, cleft half-way into oblong-lanceolate acutish 

 lobes ; corolla 13-15 mm. long ; tube about 10 mm. long and 3 mm. 

 in diameter, more than twice as long as the limb ; the latter cam- 

 panulate with very short lobes ; nutlets very strongly muricate. 



This species combines the general habit of M. lanccolata with a 

 corolla which is most like that of J/ obloiigifolia. 



WvoMiNG : Headwaters of the Tongue River Bi''- Horn 



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Symphoricarpos Utahensis 



iphoricarp 



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not H.B. K. 



. Shrub a meter or more high, with brownish bark; leaves 



broadly ovate, more or less rounded at both ends, obtuse or often 



mucronate, often coarsely sinuately toothed, pubescent when 



young, glabrate in age, 3-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide ; flowers 



in terminal one-sided, drooping short spikes, or with smaller 



clusters in the upper axils ; corolla somewhat funnclform, about 

 8 mm. long. 



This resembles most Ji. raccmosus in inflorescence and leaves, 

 but differs in the form of the corolla. The inflorescence, the 

 larger and less pubescent leaves and the size of the bush separate 

 it from .5*. rotiindif alius. 



Utah: Logan, August, 1895, P. A. Rj'dkrg (Type) ; Wah- 

 satch Mountain, 1869, .9. IVafso//, ^yj, in part.* 



* Watson includes under this numljcr not loss than three distinct forms. Of these 



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one Leloiigs to this species, one from Virginia Mountain, Nevada, to S, orco^iilzis^ and 

 the third from the Uinlahs to the next or an undescrihed species. 



