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attenuate to each end, spreading, 2 to 3 inches long, 1 to 2 lines wide : flowers borne mostly 

 in 3-flowered loug-peduncled cymes : calyx oblong or obovate, rather narrow at the base ; 

 the ends of the teeth surrounded by ovate obtuse inflexed membranes : petals white or 

 pink, 2-lobed ; segments obtuse ; claws moderately auricled ; appendages oblong, obtuse ; 

 capsule narrowly cylindrical, 5 lines long; teeth recurved; stipe 1^ lines long. — Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. i. 88; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 190; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 36, 431, & Proc. Am. Acad. x. 

 341 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 66. ? 6\ Li/allii, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342, in part 

 (as to pi. Lemmon), a form with small flowers in a pathological state, the anthers being 

 infested with Ustilago untherantm. Li/cknis e/ata, Wats. 1. c. xii. 249, in part (as to pi. 

 Bourgeau), merely 5-carpelled individual. Cucubalus Douglusii, Eat. Man. ed. 7, 266.— 

 Wasatch Mts., Utah, to Central California, northward to Montana and Brit. Columbia; fl. 

 June to September. A common and polymoi-phous species, of which the following are the 

 chief varieties ; all of them tending to intergrade with the type, and separated from it and 

 each other by no constant or important floral character. 



Var. multicaulis, Robinson, 1. c. 144. Grayish-tomentulose and less glandular : 

 leaves more approximate, narrowly lanceolate or oblong, taper-pointed, erect : stems more 

 rigid. — S. multicaulis, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 192. S. Drummondii, var., Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 675. — "Oregon," Nuttall ; Washington, Yakima Co., Brandegee (no. 6.55 in 

 part); Klikitat, Howell; Spokane Co., Suksdorf, Ramm ; N. Idaho, Spalding, Sandberg ; 

 Montana, Scribner, Canbi/. 



Var. Macounii, Robinson, I.e. Minutely pubescent, somewhat glandular above: 

 leaves distant, long and narrow, short-pointed, tapering very gradually from near the apex 

 to the base : calyx oblong, rather short, 4 to 5 lines in length, narrow ; teeth purple-tipped : 

 styles in specimens studied 3 to 4, very rarely 5. — S. Lyallii, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342, 

 as to pi. Lijull (pathological form with anthers infested by Ustilago anthernrum). S. inulti- 

 caulis, Macoun, Cat. Canad. PI. i. 494. S. Macounii, Wats. 1. c. xxvi. 124; Macoun, Bot. 

 Gaz. xvi. 286. — Washington, Lyall, Brandegee (no. 655 in part) ; Brit. Columbia, summits 

 of Rocky and Selkirk Mts., Macoun, Dawson. 



Var. macrocalyx, Robinson, 1. c. 145. Tall, puberulent or nearly smooth : leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate or linear, attenuate both ways : calyx long, cylindrical, 7 to 8 lines in 

 length. — Humboldt Mts., W. Nevada, Watson ; Mt. Pad'do, Washington, Suksdorf, Howell. 



Var. Viscida, Robinson, 1. c. Glandular-viscid, especially above : stems erect, rigid, 

 mostly simple from a branched slightly woody base : calyx broadly oblong or almost cam- 

 panulate, relatively short : leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, thickish. — Brit. 

 Columbia, at Kicking Horse Pass, Macoun ; Washington, Olympic Mts., Piper, Mt. Stewart, 

 Sandberg & Leiberg, Yakima region, Brandegee. 



Var. brach^calyx, Robinson, 1. c. Puberulent, not viscid ; leaves distant, spreading, 

 narrowly oblanceolate, attenuate : calyx short and broad, campanulate. — Oregon, Multno- 

 mah Co., and on Sauvie's Island, Howell ; Washington, Skamania Co., Suksdorf. 



Var. monantha, Robinson, 1. c. Nearly or quite smooth : stems very slender and 

 weak, rising from a spreading much branched base : leaves thin, lanceolate or linear-oblong 

 and grass-like, narrowed both ways : flowers solitary, terminal, or 3 to 5 and loosely cymose: 

 calyx obloug-campanulate, inflated. — S. monantha, Wats. 1. c. x. 340; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. 

 63. — Cascade Mts., Washington, Harford & Dunn; Webber Lake, Calif., Lemmon; N. 

 Utah C?), P«rn/. 

 S. SCaposa, Robinson, 1. c. Finely puberulent, somewhat viscid above : stem erect, sub- 

 simple, almost naked, 1 to 1| feet high, rather rigid : radical leaves thickish, oblanceolate, 

 acute, 3-nerved, somewhat glaucous, 2 to 3 inches in length, 3 to 5 lines broad ; cauline 

 leaves reduced to 1 or 2 pairs of distant bracts : inflorescence a narrow rigid panicle : flowers 

 small, erect : calyx oblong or elliptic in outline, with simple green nerves : petals white, 

 scarcely exceeding the calyx ; blades short, retuse ; claws with somewhat saccate auricles ; 

 appendages short, obtuse : ovary shortly .stiped. — Oregon, Blue Mts., Nevius ; Cold Camp 

 (no. 355) and Currant Creek, Th. Howell ; fl. May. 



= == = == = Inflorescence denser, subspicately paniculate or forming an elongated 



thyrse : styles included or moderately exserted. 



S. Hallii, Watson, 1. c. xxi. 446. Stems several, from a stout root, simple, densely glandular- 

 pubescent, 6 inches to 1^ feet high : leaves oblanceolate, acute, tapering to the base, the 



