47 



Expedition (Hooker 1. c.) ; and credited by Regel to "Ross 



Colonie," N. W. America (1. c.) ; Cent. Utah (Parry, Nos. 5 and 



6, 1875); Mts. of Colo., 1872 (Torrey) ; Clear Creek Station, 



Col. (Newberry). 



Var. ANGUSTI FOLIUM, Fenzl. Leaves elongated, linear or 



narrowly linear-lanceolate ; stems pubescent, hoary or glandular. 



(Plate LXV., f. 7.) 



In Ledeb. Fl. Ross., i., 413; Regel, Flor. Ost. Sib., i., 445. 

 C. arvense. Hook., Lend. Journ. Bot., vi., 75. 



C. elongatwn, Pursh, Fl. Amer., Sept., i., 321; DC. Prodr., i., 417; Sprang., 

 Syst. Veg., ii., 417; Hook., Flor. Bor. Amer., i., 103. 



Habitat. Northern Asia and northwest America. Oregon 

 (Geyer, 284). 



Var. MAXIMUM, n. var. Plants strong and stout, 12 to 20 

 inches high ; leaves broadly linear to lanceolate, 2 to 4 lines 

 wide, I to 2 inches long, acutish ; capsule i^ times the 

 length of the calyx ; lower bracts generally foliaceous. (Plate 

 LXiv., f 2.) 



Habitat. Noyo, Mendocino Co., California (Bolander, Nos. 

 4723 and 6520); western California (G. R. Vasey), near San 

 Francisco (Mrs. M. K. Curran). 



Var. OBLONGIFOLIUM, n. var. Leaves narrowly or broadly 

 oblong, or lanceolate-oblong, mostly obtuse; capsules i^ to 

 2\ times the length of the calyx ; stems generally taller and 

 stronger than in the type; pubescent. (Plates LXIII., and LXV., 



Cerastnim, n. sp., Torrey, Amer. Journ. Sci., iv., 63. 



C. oblongifoliitm, Torrey, FJ. U. S., i., 460; Fl. N. Y., i., 99; Darlingt., Florala 

 Cestr., 54, and Fl. Cestr., 3d Ed.. 33, in part; Torrey and Gray, Fl. N. A., i., 188, 

 in part; Gray, Man , 94; Wood, Class-book, i88, in part; Bot. & Flor., 55; Beck, 

 Bot., 54?; Tatnall, Cat. Phen. & Fil. Plants, Newcastle Co., Del., 17; Newberry, 

 Cat. Plants, Ohio, p. 14; Porter, in Mombert's Auth. Hist. Lane. Co., Pa., 583; Wal- 

 ling and Gray's New Topog. Atlas, Penn., 25; Macoun, Cat. Plants Canada, i., 77; 

 Anderson, in Rep. State Mineralogist, Nevada, 118; Meehan, Flowers and Ferns, 

 ii., pp. 189 192; Coulter, Cat. Plants, Indiana, 4; Hollick and Britton, Fl. Rich- 

 mond Co., N. Y., 8; Patterson, Cat. Plants, 111., 7; Arthur, Contr, Fl. Iowa, 9; 

 Upham, Cat. FJ. Minn., 32; Ward, Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum No. 22, 68; Tracy, Cat. 

 Plants, Missouri, 15. 



C. dichotomtwt, Muhl., Cat., 46. ? 



? C. bracteatiim, Raf., Proc. Decouv., 36; Poir., Suppl. v., 601; DC, Prodr., i., 

 420; Don. Gard. Diet., i., 447; Torrey and Gray. Fl. N. A., i., 189. 



Habitat. Eastern United States from Virginia to New York ; 



