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margined, tending to be conduplicate, narrowed to a petiole-like base; stem-leaves 

 in whorls of 5 or 6 ; panicle virgate or spike-like, very dense, or interrupted below, 

 often much longer than the stem proper; corolla pale white with bluish veins, 4 to 

 6 lines long, its lobes oblong-obovate, acuminate; gland none; crown a deeply 2- 

 lobed tube with lobes fringed or laciniate, the anterior lobe the shorter; capsule 

 elliptic, flattened, 4 lines long. 



Open coniferous woods, 6000 to 9.300 feet : southern Sierra Nevada in the Kern 

 Eiver basin from Farewell Gap to Olancha Peak. June-Aug. 



Locs. — Broder's Cabin, near Farewell Gap, Furpus; Trout Mdws., Little Kern River, Jepson 

 4917 ; Olancha Peak, S. W. Austin. 



Eefs. — SwERTiA TUBULOSA Jepson, Man. 767 (1925). Frasera tuhulosa Gov., Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. 7:71 (1892), type loc. Soda Sprs., South Fork Kern River, Coville 1598; Contrib. U. S. 

 Nat. Herb. 4:151, pi. 13 (1893). 



6. MENYANTHES Tourn. 



Perennial herbs with creeping rootstocks. Leaves all basal and the inflorescence 

 raised on a naked scape. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla white or pink, short-f unnelform, 

 5-cleft, the lobes spreading, copiously white-bearded on the inside. Stamens 5. 

 Capsule inclined to burst irregularly. — Species 2, North America, Europe and 

 Asia. (Greek men, mouth, and anthos, flower, blooming about that long.) 



1. M. trifoliata L. Buckbean. Plants 8 to 15 inches high ; leaves long-peti- 

 oled, 3-foliolate; leaflets oval or obovate, 1 to 3^4 inches long; flowers in a raceme; 

 corolla white, 5 to 6 lines long. 



Bogs and shallow lake shores, 3000 to 10,000 feet : Sierra Nevada from Fresno 

 Co. to Siskiyou Co.; San Francisco. North to Alaska and all northern regions 

 around the earth. May -July. 



Loes.— Black Mt., Fresno Co., Ball ^ Chandler 732; Echo Ridge, Lake Tahoe, Ottley 1174; 

 Castle Peak (Mt. Stanford) trail, Nevada Co., Sonne; Big Mdws., Plumas Co., Ji. M. Austin; 

 East Fork King Creek toward Twin Lakes, se. Shasta Co., Jepson 4111 ; Goose Valley, Shasta Co., 

 M. S. Baker; Sisson, Siskiyou Co., Jepson 14,643. San Francisco (Zoe 2:4). Alas.: Glacier Val- 

 ley, XJnalaska, Jepson 260. 



Refs. — Menyanthes trifoliata L., Sp. PI. 145 (1753), type from Europe; Jepson, PI. W. Mid. 

 Cal. ed. 2, 320 (1911), Man. 768 (1925). 



LOGANIACEAE. Logania Family 



Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs. Leaves simple, opposite or whorled, the stipules 

 combined and interpetiolar, or reduced to an interpetiolar line, or occa-sionally dis- 

 tinct. Flowers perfect, regular, borne in cjones or rarely racemes. Calyx 4 (5)- 

 lobed. Corolla usually 4-lobed, the stamens as many as and alternate with the 

 lobes of the corolla and inserted on its tube or throat. Ovary superior, 2-celled, 

 many-ovuled; style 1; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule or a berry. — 

 Genera 30, species about 400, mainly tropical, all continents save Europe. 



1. BUDDLEIAL. 



Ours shrubs. Herbage with a dense or woolly indument. Flowers commonly 

 small, 4-merous, rarely 5-merous, borne in dense heads, rarely in panicles. Calyx 

 campanulate. Corolla open-campanulate or sometimes salverform, its lobes im- 

 bricated in the bud. Stamens with the anthers sessile or nearly so in the corolla- 

 throat. Fruit a septicidal capsule. — Species 70, North and South America, Africa, 

 Asia. (Adam Buddie, died 1715, an English botanist who corresponded with John 

 Ray.) 



1. B. utahensis Gov. Densely branched shrub % to 1^2 feet high; leaf-blades 

 oblong to linear, 6 to 9 lines long, entire to irregularly and sparsely crenate, shortly 



