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the margins revolute and entire. Flowers clustered at summit 

 on long filiform pedicels ^-i in. long ; the stigma exserted. This 

 is found only at the higher elevations and was collected <^ the 

 edge of Bullfrog Lake and on the trail to Harrisons Pass, 



Rhododendron occidentale Qray. This well known shrub 

 is abundant at Millwood. The leaves are deciduous, and the large 

 fragrant flowers are clustered at the ends of the leafy branchlets. 



Ledum glandulosum Nutt. Erect shrub, 2-6 feet high, with 

 smooth stems. Leaves numerous, elliptical, bright green on the 

 upper surface, the lower covered with yellow glands, entire, an 

 inch or less long. Flowers in terminal corymbs, white. Sepals 

 small, orbicular, fringed with hairs ; petals larger, dotted with 

 glands. This is common at East Lake. 



Chimaphila Menziesii Spreng. Stems low from running 

 rootstocks, smooth, 3-6 in. high. Leaves elliptical, about an 

 inch long, acute at each end, serrate. Flowers in umbels ter- 

 minating long filiform peduncles, pink, nearly half an inch 

 across ; filaments with a hairy ring in the middle. Converse 

 Basin. 



Pyrola aphylla Smith. Stems generally leafless, sometimes 

 with some rudimentary leaves or scales at base, reddish, about 

 6 in. high, slender. Calyx with the divisions triangular, much 

 smaller than the petals, pink, with thin margins, oblong, a little 

 more than % in. long. Style curved. Under the conifers near 

 Converse Basin and in other places. 



Pyrola pallida Greene. Leaves all at the base, pale and 

 glaucous. Obovate to orbicular, the petioles about as long as the 

 blades, margined, together about 2 in.; margin thickened, some- 

 what undulate, oblong-orbicular, )^ in. long, greenish white ; 

 style curved. 



Pyrola picta Smith. Leaves all from the base, ovate, obtuse, 

 on short petioles, from X~/^ ^.s long as the blade, together i^- 

 lYz in. long, dark green, veined with white, reddish on the lower 

 side. Flowers red, greenish-white or tinged with rose. Near 

 Big Boulder Creek, under the trees. 



Pyrola minor L. Leaves all basal, broadly oblong to orbicu- 

 lar, with petioles as long as the blades, together about 2 inches, 

 distantly serrulate, thin, obtuse. Flowers white, petals oblong, 

 3^ in. long ; style straight. This is a smaller plant than the 

 other species, not more than 6 in. high. It was collected only by 

 Miss Catherine Wilson and at East Lake. 



