CATALOGUE. 
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specimens. In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico (Bigelow) 
and in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Found in the East Humboldt Moun- 
tains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 5-9,000 feet altitude; May, July. 
(368.) 
Parnassia parvifloea, DC. Sterile filaments in these specimens often 
9, rarely as few as 5, occasionally none ; leaves with a somewhat cordate 
tendency, the cauline often ovate, clasping ; flowers G-10" in diameter. 
Hardly distinct from P. palustris. Rocky Mountains of British America, 
latitude 52-56°, and of Colorado, (Gunnison, and Hall & Harbour ;) Wiscon- 
sin, (Grillman.) Huntington and Ruby Valleys, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 
6,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (369.) 
Parnassia fimbriata, Banks. Petals nearly sessile, fimbriate at base, 
twice longer than the calyx; sterile filaments 5-9 in each set, or reduced to 
a crenately-toothed broadly cuneate fleshy carinate scale; radical leaves 
long-petioled, reniform, the cauHne small, cordate, sessile above the middle 
of the scape. — Scape 6-18' high; flowers V in diameter. Rocky Mountains 
of Colorado, Wyoming and British America to latitude 56°; California, 
(Brewer.) East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the 
Wahsatch and Uintas; 7-10,000 feet altitude ; August, September. (370.) 
Jamesia' Americana, T. & G. Cymes about equaling the leaves, 
5-10-flowered ; petals white, 3-4" long, hairy within ; calyx-lobes shorter 
than the petals, enlarging and becoming foliaceous in fruit. — Rocky Moun- 
tains of Colorado and New Mexico. Found in a shaded rocky gulch of the 
American Fork Canon in the Wahsatch Mountains, Utah ; 7,000 feet altitude; 
August. (371.) 
RiBES HiRTELLUM, Mx. The half-dozcn specimens are exactly like 
151 Parry from Colorado, except that they are j)erfectly glabrous with but 
a few scattered hairs on the petioles. 1 756 Brewer, of the California col- 
lection, is the same and equally glabrous. From New England to Illinois 
and northward to Hudson's Bay and the Saskatchewan ; Colorado. ;ni<l iiorth- 
' JAMESIA, T. & G. Calyx-tube very short, turbinate, adn.ite to the base of the ovary ; Jobcs 
triangiilar-ovate, sometimes bifid. Petals 5, obovate, convolute. .Stuiiicns 10, the altfnnatc ones shorter; 
filaments linear, flattened, acuminate. Ovary conical, l-cclled, with 3-5 jiarirtal inaiiy-nvnlcd pla- 
centae; styles 3-5, equaling the stamens. Capsule included, inconipU toiy :5-5-ccllcd, dchisct nt b^tueen 
the persistent divergent styles. Seeds horizontal, ovate, shining, striate-reticulatc, the embryo in the 
axis of the fleshy albumen.— A low diff usely branching shrub, 2-3° high ; leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, 
mucronately serrate, canescent beneath, as well as on the petioles, calyx and branchlets, with a soft 
hairy pubescence ; flowers cymose, in terminal panicles. Bextii. *fe Hook. 
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