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rado. Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas; subalpine and alpine 
meadows; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (954.) 
Menyanthes teifoliata, L. New England to Pennsylvania and Wis- 
consin, northward to Newfoundland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay and the 
Saskatchewan ; Sitka, Washington Territory, and Sacramento Valley. Ruby 
Valley, Nevada; flowerless stems; 6,000 feet altitude. (955.) 
Hesperociiieon ^ Californicus. {Ourisin Californica, Benth. Plant. 
Hartiv.^ 27. 327.) More or less hirsute-pubescent; leaves clustered upon the 
summit of a short fusiform root, oblong or ovate, attenuate into a somewhat 
dilated fleshy petiole, obtuse, entire or obscurely repand-dentate, ciliate, 1-2' 
long ; peduncles naked, 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; calyx-segments 
3" long, oblong, pubescent ; corolla 5-8'' long, more or less deeply cleft, the 
hmb somewhat oblique, the tube and filaments somewhat hairy. — Pubescence 
rather variable, the surface of the leaves and sepals occasionally smoothish. 
An abnormal genus in some of its characters, its aestivation and the inerpiality 
of the corolla-lobes and stamens suggesting an affinity to the ScrajMariacea, 
with which it was placed by Bentham without an examination of the ovary. 
It is, however, doul3tless more nearly a Villarsia. Indeed, the V. imtnila of 
Grisebach, {Hook Flor. Bor.-Amer. 2. 70, t. 157 ; the corolla more open and 
somewhat rotate, the tube densely hairy within, and the leaves and calyx 
more glabrous,) is very similar and is probably either a second species or may 
prove to 1)C but a form of the present one. From the Columbia River to the 
Sacramento, (1875 Hartweg, 379 Fre'mont, Cronkhite, and Lyall,) the 
"Snake Country," (Tolmie,) and near Carson City, (Anderson.) Found in 
the latter locality, in grassy meadows ; 5,000 feet altitude ; April. Plate 
XXX. Fig. 1. A rather large plant ; natural size. Figs. 2, 3. Flowers, 
different forms. Fig. 4. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 
5. Stamen. Fig. 6. Ovary. Fig. 7. Mature capsule. Fig. 9. Seeds ; all 
enlarged four diameters. Fig. 8. Section of ovary ; enlarged eight diame- 
ters. (956.) 
1 IIESrEROCiriRON. Calyx 5- (sometimes 6-7-) parted, the segments unequal. Corolla rather 
narrow campannlate, withont either glands, corona or folds, the liml) 5- (sometimes G-7-) cleft, slightly 
bilabiate and more or less spreading, the segments subequal, imbriciite in a\stivation. Stamens as many 
as the corolla-lobes, inserted at the base of the tube, une(iual ; filaments ll(\sliy. iittennat.-d upward: 
anthers oval, erect, cordate at base, 2-celled, cells hiternlly dehise.-nt. Ovaiy l-celh-.l, siun.un.l.Ml at base 
by 5 obscure glau.ls, the numerous ovules atiaclied iu -2 rows to tlu' sntural i>lacenta-. Styles united 
nearly to the apex, persistent ; stigmas entire. Capsule 1-cellcd, loeulicidally <leliiscent, ^-valved, valves 
entire. Seeds wingless, ovate, roughened.— A perennial or biennial acaulescent herb, 
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