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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



ciliate : fruit on pedicels 3 or 4 lines long, the cells 2-8-seeded. — 

 Cascade Mountains, Washington Territory (Lyall) ; known only in 

 fruit. Perhaps a reduced form of the last. 



34. PROSARTES, D. Don. 



* Stigma 3-cleft : leaves rarely cordate at base. 



•t- Perianth very broad and gibbously truncate at base. 



1. P. Menziesii, Don. More or less woolly -pubescent : leaves 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowly acuminate or the lowest acute, 

 often resinous-dotted: perianth-segments nearly erect, acute, 6 to 11 

 lines long : stamens a third shorter : style usually somewhat woolly : 

 ovary nearly glabrous : capsule oblong-obovate, attenuate to a short 

 subvillous beak; cells 1-2-seeded. — Linn. Trans. 18. 533; Baker, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. 14. 587. Uvularia Smithii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 

 2. 174, t. 189. California (Mendocino County) to British Columbia. 



-i- -i- Perianth narrower and more cuneate at base. 



2. P. lanuginosa, Don, 1. c. "Woolly-pubescent : leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, narrowly acuminate : perianth-segments greenish, linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, 6 or 7 lines long: stamens a third 

 shorter : style and narrow ovary glabrous : capsule oblong-ovate, 

 obtusish or with a very short stout beak, glabrous ; cells 1-2-seeded. 



— Baker, 1. c. 586, excl. vars. Streplopus, Micbx. Uvularia, Pers. ; 

 Ker, Bot. Mag. t. 1490. Western New York to Georgia and 

 Tennessee. 



3. P. maculata, Gray. Pubescent: leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate: perianth-segments yellowish white, with purple dots, very 

 narrow at base, lanceolate above and acute, 8 to 1 lines long, scarcely 

 exceeding the stamens : style glabrous : ovary ovate, villous, with a 

 single pair of ovules in each cell. — Amer. Journ. Sci. 2 ser. 47. 201. 

 Streptopus maculatus, Buckley, same, 45. 170. Mountains of Ten- 

 nessee and North Carolina. 



4. P. trachycarpa, Watson. More or less pubescent : leaves 

 ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or rarely acuminate : perianth-seg- 

 ments whitish, slightly spreading, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, 4 to 

 6 lines long, about equalling the stamens: ovary broad : fruit broadly 

 obovate, obtuse and rather deeply lobed, papillose ; cells 2-6-seeded. 



— King's Rep. 5. 344 ; Baker, 1. c. Saskatchewan to N. Idaho, 

 Utah and Colorado. 



* * Stigma entire : leaves mostly cordate-clasping. 



5. P. Hookeri, Torr. More or less rough-pubescent with short 



