44 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



41520 to 41554— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. E. E. Cooper.) 



41522. Li.oydia sp. Liliacese. 



"(Xo. 4763.) Common in an open marsh at an altitude of 11,000 feet. 

 Small, yellow flowered." 



41523. Phyteuma sp. Campanulacese. 



" (Xo. 4766.) A plant 2 feet high. Grows on alpine peat turf at an 

 altitude of 13,000 feet, a gray hairy mound with pendent narrow leaves 

 emerging. Flowers never seen. Attacked by yaks, sheep, partridges, 

 and spiders." 



41524. Wulfexia amherstiana Benth. Scrophulariacese. 



"(Xo 4767.) A small herb found among loose pebbles and streams at 

 an altitude of 14,000 feet, with rosette 6 inches in diameter. Flowers 

 blue, small, in long spike." 



41525. Mecoxopsis sinuata Prain. Papaveracete. 



" (Xo. 4768.) A prickly plant 1 to 2 feet high among small rhododen- 

 dron bushes at an altitude of 13,000 feet. Flowers blue, 2 to 3 inches 

 in diameter." 



41526. Swertia sp. Gentianacea?. 



" (Xo. 4769.) A white-flowered mound 1 foot high on poor peaty 

 soil overlying scree at altitudes of 13,000 to 14,000 feet." 



41527. Polygonum sp. Polygonaceae. 



" (Xo. 4770.) A clumpy Polygonum among stones and peaty spots 

 in gaps in rhododendron forests at an altitude of 13,000 feet. Club 1 

 foot thick or rosette larger. Flower spike large and pendent, rich red, 

 10 inches long at times. Also seen in rock ledges at its best." 



41528. Primula sp. Primulaceae. Primrose. 

 "(Xo. 4771.) One to two feet high, growing among rhododendron bushes 



at an altitude of 13,000 feet. Like Primula obligua, dead white with no 

 eye to speak of and with heads of eight flowers." 



41529. Potentilla sp. Rosacea?. 



"(Xo. 4772.) Common on uplands, at times in peaty turf, at altitudes 

 of 13,000 to 15,000 feet. A little heap of yellow flowers 9 inches in di- 

 ameter." 



41530. Impatiens sp. Impatientacese. 



" (Xo. 4773.) Growing in 6-inch turfs by a stream edge among sandy 

 compost at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Flowers yellow." 



41531. Caltha sp. Ranunculacese. 



"(Xo. 4774.) A golden-yellow flowered, tufted plant in 2 inches <>f 

 water in a swamp at an altitude of 13,000 feet." 



41532. Swektia sp. Gentianaceae. 



" (No. 4775.) A small purple-flowered, procumbent-habited plant in 

 peaty lurf at an altitude of 13.000 feet." 



41533. Cibsitjm sp. Asteracese. 



(C'nicus sp.) 

 "(No. 177*;. ) Grows on scree among Juniperus at an altitude of 

 13.000 feet. Large, white haired, prickly. White head of one to live 

 inflorescences, 2 inches in diameter. 



