2% -ryas LL, iiountain Dryas, 
Low tutted ond motted undershrubds with alternate simnle leathery 
: : i L ths 
bifacial leaves, ‘lowers solitary on elongated peduncles at anex of a 
tuft. valyx Sepsrted, the tube shallowly saucer-shared. Fetals 8, 
Stamens numerous, the filaments subulete. Fistils numerous, the styles 
elongsting end plumose in fruit, Fruit a tailed achene, 
1, Lb. octovetala Le. Leaves wemp thick, the blades oval or elliptical, l- 
em, long, green anc glabrate on the upper surface, very rugose, the veins 
deeply impressed, tne lover surface covered with a white felt-like tomcnt 
he margin crenate, revolute, the stinules brown, 3-4 mm. long, lancejwacut 
oeduncles ce“ ch. lons, woolly, bearing stalked glands: calvxetube w 
a UL it ee toy a= 9g Sivict 416 evade Ot alas 5 a VarouU ays) woolly 
nd wrlandalar ish TAs 2 + Rearal ee 7 3. ene oe 
ha glenautear, Soe lobes 8, oblong-lanccolete, glabrous within, 3,5=@4 mn, 4 
long, obtuse; vevals bright yellow, broadly obovete or oval, 8 mm, long; 
ens subecual to the celyxelobes; receptacle hemispherical in fruit, 
+ 
1 1 Ty Aas 7 ae nos 7 ct. a > hake 7 § 
virsute, the achenes & mm, long, oblanceolate, acute ot the wuase, the »luml 
jn holarccic svecies in roci: crevices on “ne hizhest mountain tops, 
— from the summit of Snowy Ton ilt., 7400 ft., pling 5924; 7274, 
MW fury Pl 4 oa 
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