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abortive or on the sliorter stamens wholly wanting ; -filaments shghtly vil- 
lous. — Sonora, (Thurber ;) near Great Salt Lake, (Frc^mont.) 
CoRDYLANTiius CANESCENS, Gray ; /. C.J 383. Hoary with a short soft 
pubescence; stem erect, 1° higli; leaves lanceolate-Hnear, acute, suberect, 
entire ; flowers purplish, few, in a simple spike or head, each sessile in the 
axil of a clasping lanceolate bract; bractlets none; the single ('alyx-h\ii 
opposite to the bract, 2-toothed ; filaments glabrous, and the anthcr-ccll.s 
hairy only at base. — Near Carson City, (Anderson,) and Lake Waslioe, 
(Torrey.) 
CoRDYLANTHUS KiNGii. Ercct, branched, pubescent witli glandular 
hairs; leaves 3-cleft, segments hnear ; flowers in a loose simile spike, soh- 
tary and sessile in the axils of clasping bracts, wliicli an; S-.O-clcfl and 
equaling the flower; bractlets none; calyx-leaves single and opposite to \\\v 
bract, 2-3-toothed at the apex; stamens 4, witli hairy lihnnenls and 2-celled 
anthers, which are bearded at the base and apex. — Flowers lew, (4-(J,) pu- 
bescent with reflexed hairs, rather large, (10" long,) pur])le. Kare; Ibnnd 
only on a limestone ridge near Eobcrts Station in Monitor Valley, Xe\;ida ; 
6,000 feet altitude; July. Plate XXIL Fig. 3. A plant ; natural size. 
Fig. 4. Bract and calyx-leaf; natural size. Fig. 5. Corolla, lai<l open. 
Fig. fi. Ovary and style ; enlarged two diameters. (818.) 
Pedicularis Grcenlandica, Ketz. DC. Trodr. 10. 560'. Ercct, 1-2° 
high, glabrous; stem simple, leafy ; leaves pinnately parted, the seirnients 
lanceolate4inear, serrate ; spikes elongated, 3-8' long, many-flowe.-ed : calyx 
(2-3") tubular, 5-toothed, the upper tootli smallest and the lat.-ral ones with 
very shallow sinuses; galea of the reddish corolla arched, e.xceedini: the 
calyx, produced into an elongated sul.ulat(> beak twice lonin.,- than the .•alyx, 
nearly straight or more usually b.-coniin- stn.iigly recurved ..pward and 
almost circinate.— Greenland, Labrador, ai.<l from Huds<.n's l',ay to the we-sl> 
ern side of the Rockv Mountains, and southward to Wy..nnnL^ a.ul Colora<lo. 
East Humboldt, Wahsatch, and l'l.,1a Monnlains: 7 !'n(N) leel all.tude; 
July, August. (819.) 
Pedicularis bracteosa, Benth. DC. Vrodr. in. .-4. Glabrous or 
with the spike sonu'what pilose; stem erect, 12 l,i-l), lealyih.nes pin- 
nately parted, the scLnnents lanceolate, incis.-ly denlale or ].iunatitid : spike 
elongated (3-8',) densely many4lowere<l. the bracts ovale. ..Muninate and 
somewliat membranous : calyx-lohes lanceolate-setaceous ; galea id" the yel- 
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