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}}, Synthyris Benth. 
Perennial herbs with rather stout rootstocks and chiefly basal 
leaves, the cauline alternate, Flovers in racemes, Sepals 4, Corolla 
sancer-shaved, slicshtly irregular or wantinge Stamens 2, exserted, 
Capsule comoressed, but not strongly so, suborbicular, more or less 
notched at the apex, loculicidal, Seeds Tlate 
o Plants glabrous, the corolla blue; leaves reniform-rotund Se missurica 
O Plancs villous throughout, the corolla wantinefJ or 
4 rudimentary; le.ves ovace, truncate at the base S. rubra 
pohly 
le S. missurica (Raf.) Pennell, Glabrous herbs, the leaf biades rotunds> =/ 
reniforn, 4-5 em. in diameter, the margins doubly crenave-dentate, the 
orimary tecth 3-4 mm tall, the secondary teeth 1-2 mm, tall, the sinus 
open, the petioles 5-10 cm, long; flowering stems axillary, erect or 
ascencing, 15-05 em, tall, naked below or with a few small floral leaves 
5-5 mm, in diameter, the bracts subrotund or ovate, sessile, 3-5 mm, in 
diameter; pedicels 2-5 ma, long; sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse, 5<4 mm, 
longs; corolla blue, 6-7 ma. long; cansule 5-6 m, in diameter, notched 
at the apex, the style somewhat shorter than the bodye (Veronica reniformis 
Purshg Ve Purshii G. Yon, not S. reniformis (Dougl.) Benth.), 
On high mountain tops and riagese Divide betw. St. Joe and Clearwater 
rse, 6200 ite, Leiberg 1238, 
2e Se rubra (Dougl.) Benth. Villous herbs, the leaves of the flowering 
stems well developved, not bractlike, the basal leaf-blades ovate or even 
subrotund, 5-ll cm, long, obtuse, subtruncate at the base, the margins 
crenate-dentate, irregularly or not at all doubly toothed, the teeth 
eo-2 mm, tall, both surfaces villous, becoming glabrate, the vetioles 
o-10 cm, long; flowering stems axillary, erect, 15-50 em, tall, leafy, 
