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ones long; flowers 2-3, sessile or shortly pedicelled, terminal and 
occasionally also axillary, 2' long ; corolla-lobes very acute, greenish-blue, 
punctate, the folds truncate and crenate. Uinta Mountains, above head of 
BearEiver; 12,000 feet altitude ; August. (950.) 
Gentiana affinis, Sm. Perennial ; stems clustered, ascending ; lower 
leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, the upper lanceolate, rather acute, scabrous 
upon the margin ; flowers solitary and pedicelled or clustered and subsessile ; 
bracts nearly equahng the calyx ; calyx 5-cleft, lobes oblong-linear or some- 
times dilated, unequal, about equaling the entire or variously cleft tube ; corolla 
blue, beardless and glandless, narrowly clavate, open, twice longer than the 
calyx, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, thrice longer than the cleft folds ; 
anthers free ; testa slightly winged. — Quite variable ; stems 10-20' high, 
1-flowered, or the solitary axillary flowers (10"-1' in length) on long pedicels, 
or the axillary peduncles several-flowered and much reduced in length ; calyx- 
lobes very variable, sometimes almost none, and rarely wholly occupying the 
truncate border of the tube ; stigmas connate or twisted or diverging ; cap- 
sule on a stipe nearly equaling the calyx-tube ; seeds orbicular or oblong, 
winged or wingless. From the Red Eiver and Saskatchewan west to Wash- 
ington Territory and southward into California, Utah and New Mexico. 
Ruby, Huntington, and Goose Creek Valleys, Nevada, and Bear River Valley 
in the Uintas; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (951.) 
Gentiana Parryi, Eng. Trans. Acad. St. Louis, 1. 218. Perennial ; 
stems one or several, ascending or erect, 4-9' high, simple, leafy, few-flowered; 
leaves somewhat glaucous, broad at base, rounded-ovate, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, 10-15" long and 3-10" wide, subobtuse or acute, spreading, the 
uppermost narrow, carinate and boat-shaped, involucrate to the sessile large 
bluish-purple flowers ; calyx 5-cleft, membranous, entire or sometimes more 
or less slit, the lobes linear, shorter than the tube ; tube of the open corolla 
obconic, twice longer than the calyx, the erect Ijroadly obovate lobes very 
shortly acute, scarcely exceeding the bifid folds ; ovary lanceolate, stipitate. — 
Flowers 15- 18'' long, very deep purple, greenish below, the lobes a third as 
long as the tube, widening upward. Colorado and Utah. Clover Mountains, 
Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 10,000 feet altitude ; August, September. (952.) 
Frasera SPECiosA, Dougl. Hook Fl. Bor.-Ajn. 2. 66, t. 153. Stem 
stout, erect, 3-5 high, strict, usually simple, glabrous; leaves in fours, thick. 
