25-28 mm. long; seeds elliptical 4,.5-3 mm, long, surrounded by an obovate 
wing, 9-10 mm, longs 4-5 mm, wide, 
Common in bog¢y meadows within the white pine type from 2500-5300 fte; 
gregarious, the extended arms of the inflorescence suggesting the mestete hay 
ricks used in Austriade 
3e Ve Jonesii Heller. Stems 1.5-2 m. tall, glabrous in the lower parts, 
pubescent in the upnper with fine hairs, the internodes 10-20 cm, long; leaves 
sheathing the stems for 2-10 cm., the blades oval or the lower orbdicular, 
15-30 cm, long, the lower surface softly downy, the upper leaves acute 3 
compound panicle 40-80 cme long, twice or thrice branched, the slender branches 
ascending, woolly; flowers white, avvroximate but hardly crowded, on pedicels 
1-3 mm, long; perianth segments 7-9 mm, long, broadly obovate, 4-5 m, wide, 
the aiternate ones somewhat broader with a V-shaped green gland at the base; 
all abruptly narrowed to a stipe 2-2.5 mm long; stamens 5 mm, long; capsule 
erect, 55.5 cm, longs; seeds 6 mm, long, surrounded by a membranous wing, ovate 
? 
to lanceolate in outline, 15 ma, long, 5 mn, broad. (V- californicum sensu Piper 
non Durand). 
Frequent along roadways or on hillsides in the grassland infrequently 
reaching into the forested regionse 
