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BOTAOT. 
acutish, 7-9-nerved, the lowest oblong-lanceolate, 6-9' long and 2' wide, 
attenuate into a long petiole, the cauline connate at base and the uppermost 
linear; the racemose cyme densely flowered, elongated; calyx-segments 
linear, acuminate, equaling the whitish punctate corolla; glands in pairs, ellip- 
tic-oblong ; filaments dilated at base, scarcely united ; style about equaling 
the ovary. — Biennial ; stem not sulcate, often flowering to the base, thick and 
succulent with a large pith ; peduncles axillary, somewhat in fours, unequal, 
simple and 1-flowered or umbellate at the summit ; flowers 1' in diameter, 
the petals bearded at base between the filaments. In the mountains from 
Washington Territory to "Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, (Fendler ;) 
Sierras at head of Carson River, (C. D. Gibbs ; Tesseranthium radiatum^ Kell.) 
In the Diamond and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wah- 
satcli, usually on divides and sometimes abundant ; 7-8,000 feet altitude ; 
June, July. (^953.) 
Fraseka albomaeginata. Slender, 2-3*^ high, glabrous, branching into 
an open panicle ; branches and branchlets verticillate in fours or sometimes 
opposite ; leaves verticillate in fours, narrowly oblanceolate, 2-4' long, 3—5" 
wide, obtuse or acute, margined with a silvery-white line and more or less 
undulate ; upper leaves and bracts lanceolate from a clasping base, acuminate ; 
pedicels spreading, i-2'long; calyx-lobes 2-3" long, ovate-lanceolate; corolla 
9" in diameter, the petals broad-oblong, acute, greenish yellow, dotted with 
black above the middle, the base deeper green ; gland linear-oblong, fringed 
with a villous border, expanding at the top into a broad obcordate deep-green 
villous spot — Near St. George in Southern Utah, (Dr. Palmer, 1870.) 
Swertia^ peeennis, L. DC. Prodr. 9. 132. Perennial; stems from 
running njotstocks, erect, 6-15' high, few-many-flowered; lower leaves 
oblong-elliptic, long-pctioled, the cauline ones opposite, ovate-oblong, obtusish ; 
flowers erect, 6-8" in diameter ; corolla-segments coriaceous, grayish-blue 
with darker spots, elliptic-oblong, acutish, twice longer than the lanceolate 
calyx-lobes; glands in pairs, orbicular, the fimbriate crest distinct; stigma 
reniform, sulcate ; seeds winged. — Leaves either alternate or opposite. Ko- 
diak, Alaska ; Wind River Mountains, (Frdmont ;) Rocky Mountains of Colo- 
'SWERTIA, I.. Flowors 5- (or sonu tiino« 4-)ni<nons. Calyx-segments united at the very base 
valvate. Corolla witlieiino-. lutato, without corona or folds, glands fimbriate on the margin. Stamens 
inserted on the throat; lihuueuts tMnuil at l>;isr; anthors at length incumbent, nodding. Stigma ter- 
minal, seated on the o\ary, contiiuiou.s, t uiargiiiate-reniform. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, septicidal 
Seeds numerous, attached to the valves. De Cakdolle. ' 
