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Pterospora Andromedea Nutt. Pine-Drops. Stem simple, 

 1-3 ft. high, brownish throughout, the leaves small, scale-like, 

 scattered. Raceme long and with many flowers ; pedicels spread- 

 ing and recur\'ed. Flowers reddish or brownish, glandular, espe- 

 cially along the margins of the sepals, less than ]^ in. long. Un- 

 der the conifers near Millwood. 



Sarcodes sanguinea Torr. Snow Plant. Stems stout, red, 

 Yz-i ft. high, glandular, thickly covered with fleshy scales, the 

 upper ones linear, pointed, conspicuously fringed on the margins. 

 Flowers thickly clustered in a dense raceme ; pedicels erect but 

 flowers slightly drooping, red, ^ in. long. Seed pod flattened, 

 globular, % in. in diameter, opening by a hole on top. This 

 showy plant grows in the coniferous forests near Millwood. 



PRIMULACE^. Primrose Family. 



Primula suffrutescens Gray. Mountain Primrose. Stems 

 branched at base from a tap-root, very leafy below the scape. 

 Leaves spatulate, tapering to long, broad petioles, densely clus- 

 tered, dentate along the top, smooth. Scape and inflorescence 

 glandular, surpassing the leaves ; flowers in umbels on pedicels as 

 long as the calyx ; bracts of the involucre narrowly-linear and 

 pointed. Calyx i^ in. long, with pointed divisions, extending 

 almost to the base ; corolla bright crimson, salver-form, the tube 

 but little longer than the calyx, the border }'n in. or more across 

 with the divisions obcordate. This beautiful plant grows only 

 above timber line and amid the rocks. It is one of the most con- 

 spicuous Alpine flowers. Harrisons Pass, Kearsarge Pass. 



Dodecatheon alpinum Greene. Mosquito Bills, Shoot- 

 ing Stars. Leaves all at base, oblanceolate, smooth, 1-2 in. 

 long, yi-y% in. wide, scapes about a foot high, slender. Flowers 

 in umbels with few rays unequal, calyx and corolla reflexed, 

 crimson. Stamens on very short filaments ; the anthers long and 

 meeting so as to form a point around the pistil. Pod splitting 

 across the top into 5 parts. This grows in wet meadows at upper 

 levels. It was collected along Bubbs Creek. 



Dodecatheon Jeffrey! Moore. Stout, from thick, clus- 

 tered roots. Leaves sometimes a foot long and 2 in. wide, taper- 

 ing to very broad petioles which are sheathing at base, pale 

 green, sparingly toothed, oblanceolate. Scape a foot or two high, 

 stout, sparingly glandular at the lower part, more conspicuously 

 so at the inflorescence; branches of the umbel 1-4 in. long, un- 

 equal ; bracts of the involucre pointed, ).< in. long. Flowers 



