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than the subulate ovary; petals long, obovate, entire, scarcely exceed- 
ing the longer stamens and style, deciduous with the stamens from the calyx ; 
capsules sessile upon the petiole, somewhat 4-angled, nearly straight, attenu- 
ate-subulate above ; seeds oblong-cylindrical, on a filiform placenta. — Stems 
1-4' high, often -becoming densely crowded with the obconical capsules, which 
are 4-G" long. Discovered by Nuttall in Southern Idaho. Not rare in Ne- 
vada from the Havallah Range to the East Humboldt Mountains, and found 
in Heber Valley in the Wahsatch ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; June-Au- 
gust. (425.) 
Gauea parvifloea, Dougl. Stem tall, erect, and with the margin of 
the leaves villous with soft white hairs ; leaves ovale-lancoolalc, acute or acu- 
minate, repand-denticulate, clothed on both sidf^s willi a sliori velvety pid)es- 
cence ; spike virgate, strict,' many-flowered, elongating in fruit ; bracts lance- 
olate-subulate ; flowers very small, the calyx-tube s]u)rter than the glabrous 
ovary and exceeding the segments; anthers oval, retuse, aliaclicd by tlx; 
middle; stigmas not at all or scarcely produced beyond liie iu(bisium ; fruit 
oblong, sessile, obtusely angled above, 4-nerved. — Stems 2-5° high, with 
small rose-colored flow^ers, and leaves 1-3' in lengtli ; capsules 3-4" long, 
obtuse at maturity. From Louisiana to Arizona and norlhwaj-d to the Platte 
and the Columbia ; rather rare. Humboldt Pass, Nevada; Stansbury Island, 
Salt Lake ; June, September. (42 G.) 
CiRC^A ALPINA, L., Var. INTERMEDIA, Ehrli. DC. Prodi: 3. G3. Stems 
erect, 3-10' high; leaves slightly repand-dcuticulate, cordate, acuminate; 
bracts almost none ; fruit 1 -celled.— -It is nearest to C. alj)ina, but is the C, 
Lutetiana, Var. occidentalism of Nuttall, in Herb. Gray. Also collected by 
Lyall in the Gahon Mountains, and l)y Bolander in California. The species 
extends from the Northern States and Canada to the Saskatchewan, Oregon 
and Sitka. Found in the Wahsatch Mountains, Utah ; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; 
July, August. (427.) 
LOASAClwE. 
Mentzelia albicaulis, Dougl. Stem G-IS' liiizli, iM-aiicliing from the 
base, white and polished and nearly glabrous below, rather weak; leaves 
lanceolate, remote, more or less deeply sinuate-pinnatilid or toothed, sessile ; 
flowers solitary or somewhat clustered, l)ractcolate ; petals ol)ovate, 2" long, 
light yellow, scarcely exceeding the short subulate-lanceolate calyx-segments ; 
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