298 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



I think this deserves specific rank, as the distinctive characters^ 

 viz : the small flowers and the small short and broad leaves, are very- 

 constant. K. glaiica is not found in the Rockies. Mountain swamps, 

 at an altitude of 2500-3000 m. 



Montana: Pony, July 7, 1897, Rydberg & Bessey, 4634 \ East 

 Boulder Plateau, 1887, Tweedy, pj; Granite, 1892, Kelscy ; Deer 

 Lodge, Emma Ware; Belt Mts., 1883, Scrihner, ij8. 



Yellowstone Park, 1888, Dr. Chas. H. Hall; Lone Creek,. 

 1885, Tweedy, g24. 



Phyllodoce empetriformis (Smith) Don, Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 17: 



160 ; Menzicsia empetriformis Smith, Trans. Linn. Soc. 10 : 380 ; 



Brvanthiis empetriformis Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 377 [Syn. 



Fl. 2': 37; Man. R. M. 229; Bot. Cal. i: 456]. 



On mountain sides, at an altitude of 2500-3500 m. 



Montana: Old Hollowtop, Pony, July 7, iS()T, Rydberg & 

 Bessev, 4655; Hell Roaring Creek, 1886, Tweedy, 1 167; East Boul- 

 der Plateau, 1887, go; Madison Co., Mrs. FitcJi: Columbia Falls,. 

 1892, R. S. Williams, 88 j: Granite, 1892, Kelsey : Lake Plateau, 

 1897, P. Koch, J ; Belt Mts., 1883, Scribner, ij6; Upper j\Iarias 

 Pass, 1883, Canby, 2ig. 



Yellowstone Park: Upper Falls, 187 1, Hayden Survey; 

 Stinking Water, 1873, Parry, igj. 



* Phyllodoce intermedia (Hook.) ; Menziesia intermedia Hook. FL 



Bor. Am. 2 : 40 ; Bryanthns empetriformis intermedins Gray, 



Syn. Fl. 2': 37. 



This much resembles the preceding, differing in the more elongated 

 paler corolla and the acute sepals: it may be a hybrid between the 

 preceding and P. glandulifiora, with which it grows. 



Montana: Old Hollowtop, Pony, July 7, 1897, Rydberg & Bes- 

 sey,46s6; East Boulder, 1887, Tweedy, g2; Gallatin Co., Mrs. 

 Koch. 



* Phyllodoce hybrida. 



A divaricate shrub, 2-3 dm. high; leaves linear, obtuse, furrowed 

 on the upper surface, and thickly nerved on the lower, as in the 

 other species; pedicels 6-10, about 1.5 cm. long, densely glandu- 

 lar; sepals ovate, obtuse or slightly acutish, green or slightly tinged 

 with rose : corolla sulphur-yeflow, slightly tinged with rose, cylin- 

 dric-campanulate, scarcely at all contracted at the throat, the lobes 

 rounded and almost erect. 



