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A very near relative of P. bracteata, and perhaps only a variety 

 thereof. The habit and form of the leaves are the same, except 

 that P. Montaiiensis is a much more slender plant and has a shorter 

 spike. In P. bracteosa the spike is often 2-3 dm. long, the bracts, 

 especially the lower, fully as long as the light yellow corolla, the 

 lateral lobes of lip are smaller. 



Type : J. H. Flodman, no. 796, from Little Belt Mountains, 

 nine miles from Barker, August 18, 1896. 



Pedicularis ctenophor.'^. 



Stem from a thickened caudex, about 3 dm. high, glabrous, 

 strict, striate ; leaves numerous, especially at the base, glabrous, 

 rather thickish, pinnately divided into linear-lanceolate serrate 

 segments ; spike about i dm. long, rather loose ; bracts broadly 

 ovate in outline, pectinately divided ; calyx gibbous above, purple- 

 striate, more or less villous-ciliate at the base ; corolla purplish ; 

 galea arcuate, produced into an elongated incurved beak; lip very 

 broad, especially the lateral lobes. 



It is a near relative of P. contorta, from which it differs in the 

 color of the flowers, the more gibbous and purple-striate calyx, its 

 hairiness at the base and the much larger and broader bracts. 



Type : Rydberg, no. 2789, collected on the side of a snowclad 

 mountain, near Lima, Montana, July 29, 1895. 



GiLIA CEPHALOIDEA n. Sp. 



G. spkata van capitata Gray, Syn. Fl. 2; part i, 144, 1886 (in 

 part): not Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 274, 1870, nor G. capitata Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. 53 : //. 26g8. 1826. 



Jenney's plant collected in the Black Hills of South Dakota 

 was included by Gray in the Synoptical Flora in G. spicata 

 capitata. It is however scarcely the same as Hall & Harbour's no. 

 461 , the type of the variety. The species, represented by Jenney's 

 plant, my own no. 886, collected 1892, in the same region and 

 no. 2764 collected near Lima, Mont., in 1895, differs from Gilia 

 spicata not only in the subcapitate inflorescence, but also in the 

 form and color of the flower. In G. spicata the corolla is greenish 

 or dull white, has a tube which is fully twice as long as the calyx, 

 and oblong segments that are only one-third the length of the 

 tube. In G. cephaloidea the corolla is pure white, tube only ^ or 

 y2 longer than the calyx and the segments elliptical and about 



