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* * Loosely tufted or many-stemmed from a. merely woody-persistent base, or wholly herba- 

 ceous, with linear or lanceolate (or rarely ovate) spreading (approximate or sometimes distant) 

 leaves, which are little if at all fascicled in the axils: flowers slender-peduncled, solitary or 

 somewhat cymulose. 

 ) Style long and slender, often equalling or almost equalling the tube of the corolla. 



H- Arctic, with rather flaccid leaves and stems. 



P. Sibirica, L. Mostly villous-pubescent, especially on the margins of the narrow linear 

 leaves, depressed and loosely cespitose, less than a span high : tube of the corolla little 

 longer than its obcordate or emarginate lobes, seldom surpassing the calyx: ovules 2 in 

 each cell. (Gmel. Fl. Sib. iv. t. 4G, fig. 2.) Trautv. Imag. t. 24. Kotzebue Sound. (N. 

 E. Asia.) 



++ ++ Temperate, inhabiting the plains and mountains from the borders of British Columbia south- 

 ward : leaves and commonly erect or ascending stems more firm or rigid : calyx-tube between the 

 stroiv ribs scarious, inclined to be membranacepus and more or less replicate, forming intervening 

 angle's : the narrowly subulate and mostly rigid teeth shorter than the tube of the rose-colored 

 or sometimes white corolla. 



P. linearifolia, Gray. Glabrous, above sometimes minutely hirsute-pubescent, corym- 

 bosely much branched from a ligneous base, a spaii or more high : leaves very narrowly 

 linear (an inch or two long, about a line wide) : calyx-tube mostly saliently 5-angled from 

 the broader base by the strong replication of the white-membranaceous sinuses ; the lobes 

 nearly acerose : tube of the corolla little exceeding the calyx ; the obovate-cuneate lobes 

 entire or barely retuse : ovules 2 in each cell. P. speciosa, var. linearifolia, Hook. Kew. 

 Jour. Bot. iii. 239, mostly. P. speclosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1351 ; Benth. in DC. 1. c. From 

 the Dalles to the upper waters of the Columbia, Douglas, Spalding, Gcyer, &c. 

 P. longifolia, Nutt. Nearly glabrous or pubescent, much branched or many-stemmed 

 from a ligneous base, 3 to 8 inches high : calyx more or less angled by the white-mem- 

 branaceous replicate sinuses : leaves mostly narrowly linear (1 to 24- inches long) : lobes of 

 the corolla obovate- or oblong-cuneate, entire or retuse : ovules almost always solitary in 

 each cell. Jour. Acad. Philacl. vii. 41. P. speclosa, var., Hook. Fl. ii. 72. P. humilis, 

 Dougl. ; Benth. 1. c. : a small and short-peduncled form, sometimes apparently passing into 

 P. Donr/lusli, var. lonr/i folia. From the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, Montana to 

 Colorado, west to Nevada and Oregon, and north to British Columbia or nearly : south- 

 westward passing into 



Var. Stansburyi, Gray, 1. c. Conspicuously piibescent throughout, or sometimes 

 glabrate, generally stouter and more open in growth : leaves from linear to linear-lanceo- 

 late : pubescence of the branches and calyx viscid or glandular : corolla mostly pink or 

 rose-color, and its tube commonly twice the length of the calyx ; the lobes emarginate or 

 erose at the apex : ovules sometimes a pair in one or two of the cells. P. speciosa, var. ? 

 Stansburyi, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 145. Utah and Nevada to New Mexico and Arizona. 

 Passes into 



Var. brevifolia, Gray, 1. c., a depressed or dwarf form ; with leaves 9 to 4 lines long, 

 rigid and with more cartilaginous margins, at least the lower lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late : peduncles either short or none, or elongated. From Dakotah (Black Hills) to N. 

 California and Arizona. 



P. adsurgens, Torr. Glabrous, except the slender peduncles and scarcely replicate- 

 angled calyx, which are glandular-pubescent : stems diffuse and ascending, slender (a span 

 or two long) : leaves ovate-lanceolate and ovate, acute, 5 to 10 lines long, all but the lower 

 much shorter than the internodes : tube of the corolla nearly twice the length of the 

 calyx; its lobes obovate, entire (about 5 lines long) : ovules solitary in each cell. Gray, 

 Proc, Am. Acad. viii. 2-30. Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Prof. A. Wood, C. W. Citsick. 



H 1__ Style very short, mostly shorter than the ovary and the linear stigmas : calyx-tube cylin- 



draceous, the tliin-mcmbranous portion between the fibs not projecting into salient angles. 



P. speciosa, Pursll. Above somewhat viscid-puberulent or glandular, below often gla- 

 brous, a foot to even a yard high ; the branches ascending from a shrubby base : leaves 

 lanceolate or linear (an inch or two long) ; the upper especially broadest at base : flowers 

 corymbose : corolla rose-pink or nearly white ; its tube little exceeding the calyx ; its 

 lobes obcordate: ovules solitary. Gray, Proc. I.e. & Bot. Calif, i. 48G. P. speciosa, var. 

 latffoHa, Hook. Kew. Jour. Bot. 1. c. P. d/'nar/cata, Durancl. PL Pratten., not Michx. 

 P. occidental, Durand. in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 125 : a broad-leaved form. Interior plains of 



