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high, from a tufted creeping rootstock, glandular-viscid and musk-scented ; 
leaflets small and numerous, 1-4" long, mostly as if whorled or fascicled, 
being 2— 5-divided and sessile, the segments varying from round-oval to 
linear-oblong; flowers capitate-crowded, or in fruit racemose-spicate, honey- 
scented, nodding; calyx-lobes narrow, the cylindric or oblong tube twice 
longer; corolla 8"-l' long, blue, the narrow-funnelform tube exceeding the 
calyx and mostly 2-3 times longer tlian its rounded lobes ; filaments barely 
hairy and scarcely dilated at base. — Eocky Mountains, latitude 38-49°, and 
in the Sierras ; alpine. In the Wahsatch and Uintas, on rocky peaks ; 12,000 
feet altitude; August. (930.) 
Var. MELLiTUM, Gray, Laxer both in leaflets and in inflorescence, with 
the paler or whitish corolla 1' long, the lobes one-fourth the length of the 
narrow tube. — Kocky Mountains of Colorado. East Humboldt Mountains, 
Nevada, on a rocky peak ; 10,500 feet altitude ; August. (931.) 
PoLEMONiUM c^RULEUM, L. Grmj^ I. c, p. 281. New York and New 
Jersey, rare ; common from the Rocky Mountains to CaHfornia, Alaska and 
the Arctic regions. Glabrous or viscid pubescent ; corolla most usually blue ; 
the seeds anghnl and often more or less winged. On stream banks and in 
meadows, Huntington and Ruby Valleys, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and 
Uintas; G-8,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (932.) 
Var. FOLiosissiMUM, Gray. Very viscid-pubescent ; stems 2° high with 
the corymbose branches very leafy to the top ; leaflets frecpiently confluent 
on a wing-margined rachis; stamens and style mostly shorter than the 
smaller white corolla, which is twice or more longer than the calyx. — In the 
Rocky Mountains, from Wyoming to New Mexico. East Humboldt Moun- 
tains, and in the Wahsatch; 7-9,000 feet altitude; June-August. (933.) 
PoLEMONiUM MiCRANTHUM, Bcuth. Gmy^ I p. 282. Annual, some- 
what viscid-pubescent, branching, weak and diffuse, 3-8' high; leaflets 
simple, 5-13, obovate or lanceolate, 2-4" long; flowers scattered or solitary 
on the branches ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, decidedly longer than the white or 
whitish almost rotate corolla ; filaments nearly naked, somewhat dilated at 
base ; ovules 2-3 in each cell. — Nearly prostrate and mucli resemlding an 
EUisia. Washington Territory. On damj) foot-hills near Carson City, Nevada ; 
4,500 feet altitude ; April. (934.) 
