44 ERYTHEA. 



up. Other puzzling forms from farther south exist in herbaria, but 

 without fresher material it is impossible to say where they should 

 be referred. 



* Stems sparingly pilose or quite glabrate below. (C. Breweri, C. 

 rupicola, and C. angustifolia, var. Bradburii might be looked for here.) 



-t- Leaves very thin (drying blackish), 5-7-laciniate ; calyx about 12 

 mm. long. 



C. parviflora, Bong. Stems several from a stout caudex, 

 slender, slightly angulate, 2 or 3 dm. high, quite glabrous below, 

 more or less villous above and in the inflorescence : leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, 1.5 to 3 cm. long, the rather divaricate lateral lobes 

 linear or lance-acuminate; lower leaves glabrous or sparingly pubes- 

 cent on the veins beneath, the upper and the leaf-like bracts 

 becoming villous : racemes at first very short becoming 6 or 8 cm. 

 long :/tiracts mostly 5 cleft, the lower exceeding the flowers, the 

 upper shorter : calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, acutish or obtusish: 

 corolla about 18 mm. long, the slightly exserted galea scarcely 

 equaling the tube; middle lobe of the short lower lip half as long 

 as the two oblong-lanceolate lateral lobes : flowers said by Bongard 

 to be "red." Mem. Acad. Petersb., ser. 6, ii (1833), 158. Originally 

 collected by Dr. Mertens on the island of Sitka, and recently by 

 Frederick Funston at Disenchantment Bay, Alaska, Aug. 5, 1892 

 (No. 89). 



■i— i- Leaves thicker (drying green or slightly blackish), 3-5-cleft or 

 rarely entire; calyx longer, 18 mm. or more long. 



C. oreopola, Greenman. Stems rather stouter than in the pre- 

 ceding, glabrous below, somewhat pilose above : leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cm. long, the lower glabrous, entire or 

 slightly lobed, the upper villous, cleft above the middle into ascend- 

 ing or somewhat spreading lanceolate or linear-lanceolate lobes : 

 racemes about as long as those of G. parviflora: the rose-purple or 

 crimson (sometimes white) bracts rather narrower, 3-cleft: calyx 

 colored like the bracts, the divisions linear-oblong, acutish or blunt : 

 corolla 2 cm. long, the narrow exserted galea greenish on the back, 

 scarcely equaling the tube; lower lip green, nearly 2 mm. long, 

 rather deeply cleft into 3 subequal linear lobes. — Bot. Gaz. XXV. 

 264. — Near Skagit Pass, Cascade Mts., Washington, Aug. 24, 1892, 



