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1. H. limosa (A. Ncls.) Standi. A perennial with a woody base; stems 

 ascending 3-6 dm. high, nearly glabrous; leaf-blades thick, roimded-ovate to 

 cordate, 1-3 cm. long; involucres 4-6 mm. long; calyx rose-colored or purple, 

 campanulate, about 1 cm. high; fruit ovate, smooth, 3 mm. long. Mirahilis 

 glutinosa and M. limosa A. Nels. Dry hillsides: Utah — Ariz. — Calif. — Nev. 

 Son. F-Je. 



7. ALLIONIELLA Rydb. 



Branched perennial herb.s, with ojtiiosite petioled leaves. Bracts five, united 

 into a gamophyllous viscid rotate involucre, which enlarges somewhat in fruit, 

 but does not become membranous. Flowers in each involucre 3. Perianth 

 open, short funnelform, 5-lobed. Stamens 3, distinct. Fruit ellipsoid, neither 

 angled nor ribbed, very indistinctly tubercled, glabrous. 



1. A. oxybaphoides (A. Gray) Rydb. Perennial; stems diffusely branched, 

 procimibent; leaf-blades cordate, often somewhat acuminate, 2-5 cm. long, more 

 or less puberulent; involucre deeply 5-cleft, glandular-viscid, 6 mm. long; peri- 

 anth campanulate, 7-8 mm. long. Ravines and valleys: Tex. — Colo. — Utah — 

 Ariz. Son. — Submont. Je-S. 



8. ALLIONIA Loefl. Umbrella-wort. 



Perennial herbs, with rather fleshy, entire, opposite leaves. Flowers perfect, 

 1-5 in each involucre, in ours rose-colored or white. Involucre gamophyllous, 

 5-lobed, in fruit enlarging and membranous. Perianth campanulate or funnel- 

 form, often oblique. Stamens 2-5, unequal; filaments very slender and imited 

 at the base. Fruit club-shaped, 5-angled or 5-ribbed, usually pubescent and 

 minuteh^ tuberculate. Pericarp adhering to the seed. Endosperm mealj'. 

 [Oxyhaphus L'Her.] 



Leaves cordate to broadly ovate-lanceolate , all distinctly petioled. 



Leaf-blades cordate or deltoid. 1. A. nyctaginea. 



Leaf-blades ovate, rounded or cuneate at the base. 



Stem glabrous; leaves thin and soft; inflorescence not bracteate. 2. A. floribunde. 

 Stem hirsute; leaves thick and fleshy; inflorescence bracteate. 3. A. pnlyatricha. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, oblong, or linear, sessile, or only the lower short-petioled. 

 Stem more or less hirsute as well as viscid. 

 Fruit pubescent. 



Leaves ovate or broadly oblong, as well as the stem conspicuously hirsute. 



4. A. hirsuta. 

 L6aves linear-lanceolate, almost glabrous; stem sparingly hirsute, or glabrous 

 except under the nodes. 5. A. pilosa. 



Fruit glabrous. 6. A. Carletoni. 



Stem glabrous below, not hirsute, viscid-pubenilent above. 



Flowers solitary in the involucre, on short slender pedicels; fruit nearly glabrous. 



7. A. glabra. 

 Flowers 2-3 In the involucres, subsessile; fruit decidedly pubescent. 



Lower leaves ovate, rounded at the base. 8. A. sessilifolia. 



Lower leaves lanceolate to linear, tapering at the base. 



Leav&s of the cymes much reduced and bract-like; upper portion of the 



stem densely arid flnely puberulent. 9. A. bracteata. 



Leaves of thecymes neither much reduced nor bract-like. 



Leaves erect or ascending; lobes of the involucre rounded or broadly 

 triangular-ovate. 

 Plant prostrate or difl'use; involucres and branches of the inflor- 

 escence densely viscid-hairy. 10. A. diffusa. 

 Plants more siniple, erect or ascending; branches of the inflorescence 

 usually merely viscid-puberulent. 

 Leaves from ovate- or obovate- to linear-lanceolate, usually 



over .5 mm. wide. 11. A. dccinnhens. 



Leaves narrowly linear, less than 5 mm. wide. 12. ^\. linearis. 

 Leaves divergent, distinctly petioled; lobes of the involucre elliptic or 

 oval. 13. A. divaricala. 



1. A. nyctaginea Michx. Stems 3-10 dm. tall, stout, dichotoniotisly 

 branched; leaf-blades 2-10 cm. long; inflorescence paniculate; involucres in fruit 

 about 1.5 cm. broad, pubescent; lobes ovate or triangular; perianth red, hairj^ 

 without. Oxyhnphus nyctagineus Sweet. Rich soil: Sask. — 111. — La. — N.IM. — ■ 

 Wyo. Plain. My-Au. 



2. A. floribunda (Choisy) Kuntze. Stems 3-9 dm. high, stoutish, swollen 

 at the nodes; leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-5 cm. long; inflorescence panicu- 



