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with lanceolate nearly entire leaves (^2 in. or less long) all 

 huddled at base. Stems several, erect, J4 to 2 in. high, each 

 bearing 1 to several minute terminal flowers. Calyx sharply 

 5-toothed to the middle, J /& in. long, equalling the white cor- 

 olla. — Common only in the Rocky Mts. and the far north. 

 Discovered in 1909 between Mt. Dana and Mt. Gibbs by 

 Professor W. L. Jepson. 



3. DODECATHEON. Shooting-star. 



Perennial herbs with naked stalks bearing at summit an 

 umbel of several showy flowers. Corolla 4 or 5-parted, the 

 long and narrow divisions turned back over the short tube 

 and thick throat. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes, pointing 

 straight forward, inserted on the throat, the short flat fila- 

 ments united, or entirely wanting in our species. Style long. 

 Related to the cultivated Cyclamen. 



1. D. jeffreyi Van Houtte. Leaves oblanceolate, acutish, 

 entire or slightly toothed, narrowed to a sheathing base, 2 to 

 15 in. long. Stem naked, 5 to 18 in. high, finely pubescent 

 above where it bears a bracted cluster of 5 to 15 nodding 

 flowers, each on a pedicel y 2 to 3 in. long. Corolla-segments 

 mostly 4, 34 to 1 in. long, rose-pink, pale or yellowish toward 

 base, closely reflexed and exposing a purple ring of the 

 throat. Stamens 4, anthers reddish purple. 



Dodecatheon jeffreyi 



Dodecatheon jeffreyi redolens 



The Shooting-stars are most attractive as one comes upon 

 them in the wet mountain meadows, standing straight like 

 pink soldiers. There is a fine meadow back from Glacier 

 Point, just off the Chinquapin Road, that has been entirely 

 taken over by Shooting-stars and the white Marsh Mangold. 

 It alsd grows at Hog Ranch, Snow Flat, Eagle Peak 



