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midvein prominent, yellowish; scape 2 dm. high, slender, tinged 
with purple, puberulent; umbel usually three-flowered, subtended 
by five narrowly lanceolate bracts 3-4 mm. Jong; pedicels 2-4 cm. 
long, slender, puberulent, the upper half somewhat striate; calyx 
puberulent, 5 mm. long, the five lanceolate lobes equalling or 
slightly exceeding the tube; corolla 1 cm. long, rose-purple, the 
everted tube marked witha bright band of yellow ; stamens 5 mm. 
long, five in number; filaments 2 mm. long, bright yellow, the 
connectives lanceolate, half the length of the anthers, with yellow 
base and purple tip; style slender,6 mm. long, hence longer 
than the stamens; capsule narrowly ovate-oblong, slightly longer 
than the calyx, tipped with a knob-like point, which splits into 
five segments. (Plate 309.) 
The type is no. 2985, collected April 29, 1896, on the left 
bank of the Clearwater, near the Upper Ferry. It is not uncom- 
mon in that vicinity, growing on grassy hillsides. Some of no. 
63, listed in Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 239, as “ Dodecatheon 
sp.” was first collected here by the writer, but specimens from 
other places were later placed under the same number. It is re- 
lated to D. Cusicki. Greene, but pronounced distinct by Professor 
Greene. No. 3169, collected at Lake Waha June 3, 1896, and 
distributed as D. puderulentum, is probably D. Cusickit. 
v FRASERA FASTIGIATA (Pursh). 
Swertia fastigiata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. tor. 1814. 
Frasera thyrsifiora Hook. Kew. Journ. Bot. 3: 288. 1851. 
The original locality of this species is given by Pursh as “on 
the Missouri flats, near the Rocky mountains. JZ, Lewis * * * * 
July.” Dr. Gray, in the Synoptical Flora says: “ Idaho and in- 
terior of Oregon, on the tributaries of the Columbia, Lewis, Doug- 
_ tas, Geyer, Spaulding. Rare and little known. Pursh’s plant, seen 
in herb. Lambert, where the true station is recorded: ‘in moist 
and wet places on the Quamash flats, June 4, 1806,’ at which 
date Lewis and Clarke were on the Kooskooskie (now Salmon) 
river, near which the species was collected by Spaulding.” 
Dr. Gray’s statement concerning the identity of the Indian 
name “ Kooskooskie” is erroneous. The Clearwater, and not the 
Salmon, is known bythat name. The “Quamash Flats,” or“ Camas. 
Prairie,” is near Mt. Idaho, on the South Fork of the Clearwater. 
The species is common on the Craig Mountains, growing | 
usually on grassy slopes or open glades, or along streams in mead-_ 
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