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leafy stem, 1 J-2° high, simple or branched ; leaves varying from linear to 
oblong-lanceolate, 2-8" in width and 1^-4' long, with a long 'attenuate acu- 
mination, strongly 3-nerved, the floral ones more or less dilated at base and 
exceeding the flowers, which are either axillary along nearly tlic wliole 
length of the stem or clustered at the summit, where ah)ne the tij)s oi' \ \w 
bracts are conspicuously colored. Only on stream-banks; Truckce and 
Ruby Vallies and in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 4-G,500 iect 
altitude; July-September. (809.) 
Oastilleia parvifloea, Bong. Gra^, I. 330. rcrrijiiinl ; pilose- 
pubescent or hirsute nearly throughout, scarcely hisi)id ; leaves lor llie most 
part 3-cleft or laciniately pinnate, the floral ones more or h'ss dilaled and 
nearly always colored; calyx deeply clefl bi>tli ;d)ove ;ind b<do\\ , f lie sei^- 
ments either emarginately 2-lobed or deeply bifi<l \\ the lobes oldoni^ or 
linear; lip of the corolla very short. — The most (;oiiiiHon :iiid a nit lier vari- 
able species; stems 3-20' high, usually nunierons, simple nv br.ineln'd ; 
the lower leaves usually, and sometimes nearly all, entire and linear: sj)ilve 
usually short and dense, sometimes elongated; the color of the tloral leaves 
varies from deep-red to flesh-color and yellow, randy iivn^w • the Lndea oflfsn 
scarcely exceeds the calyx, or may be exserted From Wasliinirton 
feritory to Colorado, Arizona, (Ives,) and Southern Calirornia. Very fre- 
quent on mountain slopes, from the AVashoe :\Iountains to i he Wahsatch ; 
5-10,000 feet altitude ; April-August. (810.) 
Oastilleia pallida, Kth. Vermont and New Hampshire, and 
throughout British America from Labrador to the Great Bear Lake, ;.n<l 
Behring Strait; southward in the mouiitains to Calilbrnia, Xorihrrn 
Arizona, and Colorado. Found fr.mi the Truckce to the Vax>\ Humlmhh 
Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas and Wahsateh: (;-10,000 feet alti- 
tude; June-September. The floral leaves in the speeinieii^ are m<.>tly 
entire, broadly oval and often rounded at the apex, not nnrre(|iHmt ly (•.)n< eal- 
ing the flowers; the galea varies nuudi in len-th, seare.dy exserted from ihr 
calyx or 4-6" long ; bracts usually didl->earlel rath<>r than oehrol.Mieous, 
which color was met with only in Utah. It would not appear from tliese 
specimens that any constant length of gah-a gives groun<l for a variety 
miniata. (811.) 
Var. With the floral leaves narrower and lobed, the louer leaves 
linear or lanceolate ; color ochroleucous or sha.h- (.1" red. Truckee Valley, 
