t-formins ~erennials; leaves imbricated, 
S. caespitos: 1. Densely vutted, ma 
5-10 rm, long, tridenteshened, the lobes 2,5-3 me long, 1 mm, vide, subsaeutey 
od 
she midvein in ecsch rominent, more or less villous, es»vecialliyv on the margins; 
flowering stems 5-€ em, tall, slencer, the .racts d-lobed or toothed or the 
vovermost entire; flovers 5-7 in onen cymes, on pedicels 10-15 mm, long; sepals 
erect, 282.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, glandulars petals obovate, 
4—5 mn. lons; stamens subeoual to the sepals, the filaments subulate; pistil 
inferior, the hypanthium obconicai at anthesis, the styles slender, shorter 
than the stamens; cansule 4,0 ma, long, urceolate, the carpels joined almost 
their full length, the styles divaricates; sceds oval, spinulose, 
Abundant on moist rock ledges, ot. doe Rey 2500 fte, “pling and Putnam 
10508, Je X. Small has separated our olants as luscaria monticole (N,. Am, 
el 
Fie 22: 130) unon ninor difierences in sevals and hypanthium, 
ve invegrifolia -ook, lootstock short, globose; leaves 3+30 cm, long, 
1-6 cm. vroad, elliptical-obioug or oblanceolate, obtuse or less often acute, 
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narrowed at the bse, the retiole hardly distinet, both surfaces neerly 
clabrous, or the lover or both hirsute, the margins entire or remotely 
callous-denticulates; seape S0-"0 om, tall, stout, ¢landular-pubescent through- 
Ours 1@ bracts linear; cymes strict, varying greatly in censity, SO em. long, 
the lower on erset glendular veduneles commonly 1-5 em. ‘onc, the upper son > 
often subsessile, vnedicels 4-8 rm, lonse;, glandular; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, 
about 1,5-2 mn. long, s-veined, soon roflexed; vetals oval, S=veined but the 
nidvein roriinent, »-4 mm, lons, soreading, sometimes wanting; stamens half 
the length of the »etals or subequal, vith yellow anthers; overy about helf 
infcrior in flower, the lobes distinct, nearly supcrior in fruit, the lobes 
widely divergent; seeds snindle-shaned, 1 fm. lons, brown, with longitudinal 
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rows of vavillae. (5S, orereana .orells; S, columbiana Pi Cry Se subanvetala BE, 
Uels.; liicranthes ornoslossa Small). 
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