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preceding : capsule ovate, 5-toothed, very shortly stiped. — Bot, King 



Exp. 37, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 248. — E. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, 



9,000 ft, Waiso7i. 



■t- -4- Alpine or far Northern species. 



■*-*■ Calyx ovate, not strongly inflated : flowers on each stem 3 or 5 densely 

 aggregated, rarely solitary : petals exserted : seeds tuberculate. 



L. triflora, R. Br. Viscid-tomentose : stems 3-8 inches high: 

 leaves thickish, linear-oblong, often conspicuously ciliate : flowers short- 

 pedicelled : calyx with 10 broad indistinct purple or green nerves: 

 petals white or roseate ; the blade obcordate ; the claw scarcely auri- 

 cled. — Ross Voy App. cxlii., name only; Soramerfelt, Mag. Naturv. 

 ii. (1824), 151, 152 ; Wats. 1. c. 247. L. apetela, vai\ paucijiora, Dur. 

 PI. Kane, 189. Agrostemma triflora, Don, Syst. i. 417. 3Ielandrium 

 triflorum, Liebm. Fl. Dan. xiv. t. 2356 ; Rohrb. Linnosa, xxxvi. 231. 

 Wahlbergella triflora, Fries, Summa Scand. 155. — Greenland, from 

 Polaris Bay (Bessel) southward ; Grinnell Land, Greely. 



Var. Dawsoni. Calyx with principal nerves double or triple, 

 joined by interlacing veinlets ; the intermediate nerves beneath the 

 sinuses inconspicuous or wanting : petals very narrow ; the blade 

 oblong, bifid, hardly to be distinguished from the narrow claw. — 

 Gravel banks, N. British Columbia, 100 miles northeast of Dease 

 Lake, Dr. G. M. Dawson. 



++ 4-1. Calyx ovate, scarcely inflated : flowers erect or slightly nodding in anthe- 

 sis : stems usually 1-flowered, occasionally loosely several-flowered. 

 = Rocky Mountain and Western alpine species. 



Li. Kingii, Wats. Densely covered with a very short pubescence, 

 somewhat glandular above : stems slender, erect, 4-6 inches high, 1-2- 

 flowered : leaves narrowly linear : the blade of the petals rather 

 short and broad, emarginate ; the claw with broad ciliated auricles ; 

 appendages oblong: filaments pubescent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 247, 

 exclusive of Wyoming plant. L. Ajanensis ? Wats. Bot. King Exp. 

 37. — Peaks of the Uintas, N. Utah, Watson. Additional material of 

 this little known species may perhaps show it to be merely a Southern 

 form of L. aflinis. 



L. montana, Wats. Glandular-pubescent : root thickish, sub- 

 simple : stems erect, 2-4 inches high : leaves linear, 1-1 \ inches in 

 length : calyx green- or rarely purple-nerved, 5-6 lines long ; the 

 teeth short, scarcely acute : petals narrow, about equalling or a line 

 or two exceeding the calyx ; the blade small, bifid ; the claw narrow, 

 1-3 lines in breadth ; appendages small or absent : filaments naked : 

 capsule sessile or nearly so. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 247, excl. of 



