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from near the apex to the hase : calyx oblong, rather short. I -5 lines 

 in length, narrow, teeth purple- tipped : styles in specimens studied 

 3-4, very rarely 5. — S. multicaulis, Mao m, Cat. Canad. PI. 194. 

 S. Macounii, "Wats. Froc. Am. Acad. xxvi. 124 ; Macoun, 1 » < . t _ (ia/. 

 xvi. 286. — Washington, Lyall, Brandegee (655 in part) ; British Co 

 lumbia, summits of Rocky and Selkirk Mt<., Macoun, Dawson. 

 ■- Var. macrocalyx. Tall, puberulent or nearly Bmooth: leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate or linear, attenuate both ways: calyx long, cylin- 

 drical, 7-8 lines in length. — Humboldt Mts., W. Nevada, Watson; 

 Mt. Adams, Washington, Suksilorf, Howell. 



Var. viscida. Glandular viscid, especially above : stems erect, 

 rigid, mostly simple from a branched slightly woody base: calyx 

 broadly oblong or almost campanulate, relatively short: leaves nar- 

 rowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, tbickish. — British Columbia, at 

 Kicking Horse Pass, Macoun ; Washington, Yakima Region, Bran- 

 degee ; Olympic Mts., Piper. 



Var. bracliycalyx. Puberulent, not viscid; leaves distant, 

 spreading, narrowly oblanceolate, attenuate : calyx short and broad, 

 campanulate. — Oregon, Multnomah Co., 1877, Howell; also by same 

 collector on Sauvie's Island, 1880. 



' Var. monantha. Nearly or quite smooth : stems very slender and 

 weak, rising from a spreading much branched base: leaves thin, lan- 

 ceolate or linear-oblong, and grass-like, narrowed both ways: Sowers 

 solitary, terminal, or 3-5 loosely cymose: calyx oblong-campanulate, 

 inflated. — S. monantha, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 340 ; Brew. & 

 Wats. 1. c. i. 63. — Cascade Mts., Washington. Harford <$■ Dunn . 

 Webber Lake, Cal., Lemmon ; N. Utah (?), C. C. Parry. 



S. scaposa. Finely puberulent, somewhat viscid above : stem 

 erect, subsimple, almost naked, 1-H feet high, rather rigid: radical 

 leaves thickish, oblanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, somewhat glaucous, 2 8 

 inches in length, 3-5 lines broad; cauline leaves reduced to 1 or 2 

 pairs of distant bracts: inflorescence a narrow rigid panicle: flowers 

 small, erect: calyx oblong or elliptic in outline, with simple green 

 nerves:' petals white, scarcely exceeding the calyx ; the blade Bhort, 

 refuse; the claw with somewhat saccate auricles; appendages diort 

 obtuse: ovary shortly stiped. — Oregon, Blue Mis.. /,'. /'. 

 1874; Cold Camp (355) and Currant Creek, Thos. Howell, 1885, Maj 

 = = = = = Inflorescence denser, subspicate, or forming an elongated thj 

 stylos included or moderately exserted. 



S. Hallii, Wats. Stems several, from a Btoul root, simple, densel; 

 glandular-pubescent, G inches to 1 .■ feet high leaves oblai 



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