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BOTANY. 
Arctic Circle ; Northern California (Bigelow) and Colorado. A single speci- 
men ; Echo Gallon, in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (743.) 
Pyrola secunda, L. Northern States and through British America to 
the Arctic Circle and Pacific Ocean ; Washington Territory and Colorado. 
Uinta Mountains ; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; July. (744.) 
MoNESES UNIFLOEA, Gray. From Pennsylvania and New England north- 
ward, throughout British America to latitude 64°, and on the western coast 
from Sitka to Washington Territory; Colorado. Uinta Mountains; 9,000 
feet altitude ; July. (745.) 
Chimaphila umbellata, Nutt. Mountains of North Carolina and 
through the Northern States and Canada and westward, to latitude 53° ; on 
the western coast from Washington Territory to Northern California. Uinta 
Mountains, Utah ; 8,000 feet altitude ; July. (746.) 
Pterospora Andromedea, Nutt. Pennsylvania to Vermont ; Canada ; 
on the Saskatchewan ; Washington Territory to Northern California ; Colo- 
rado. Uinta Mountains; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; August. Stems high ; 
under pines. (747.) 
PLANTAGINACE^. 
Plantago eriopoda, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lijc. 2. 237. Perennial; leaves 
fleshy, broadly lanceolate, 4-6' long, 1-2' wide, attenuate at each end, long- 
petioled, glabrous, entire, 5-nerved; base of the leaves and scape clothed with 
long dense brown wool ; scape r high, terete, glabrous or pubescent, with a 
cylindrical spike (3-6' long) of rather remote perfect flowers ; bracts scari- 
ous-margined, ciliate; stamens and styles very long; bracts broadly ovate, 
mostly obtuse ; capsules 4-5-seeded ; seeds not hollowed.— Anticosti Island, 
(Pursh ;) Red River Valley, Dakota, and northward to Bear Lake ; valley of 
the Platte to the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. In clayey 
subalkaHne soil in Ruby Valley, Nevada, and Bear River Valley ; 6,000 feet 
altitude ; July, August. (748.) 
Plantago Bigelovii, Gray, Pac, R. R, Surv. 4. 117. Dwarf, 2-3' 
high, annual, somewhat minutely hirsute or glabrous; leaves fleshy, 1-2^ 
long, linear-filiform, obtuse, entire; spike short-oblong, densely 3-12-flowered; 
stamens 2 ; capsule oblong-ovoid, 3-4-seeded, longer than the calyx and the 
ovate acute bract.— Spike in the present specimens linear and rather loosely 
10-30-flowered'; style exserted, longer than the stamens ; corolla-lobes ovate. 
