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larger, more obtuse, 2-2%4 inches long, a half-inch broad. Up-+ 
per leaves subsessile, sometimes like an involucre to the corymb, 
sometimes more remote, the latter similar, but narrower and. 
smaller. Petioles connate and clasping the stem at the dilated. 
base. Racemes contracted. Bracts linear, very narrow, acumié 
nate, the midvein prominently prolonged, 4 lines long, about as 
long as the corolla. Flowers 4 lines long. Calyx obsolete. Co- 
rolla infundibuliform, humped at the base, the limb 5-lobed; the 
lobes oblong obtuse, furnished with a midvein. The tube Io- 
ribbed, 5 of which are extended and form nerves to the lobes; 
but 5 cease at the angles between the lobes. Stamens exserted. 
Styles undivided, obtuse at the apex, exserted. Fruit not seen, 
It is related to V. sambucifolia Mik., from which it differs: 
the lower leaves 3-parted, the upper Biohed (not 4-5-lobed) and. 
finally in the contracted raceme. V. capztata Pall. in herb. 
Willd., which grows on the island of Unalaska and especially in 
the boreal regions of America, differs not so much in the shape 
of the leaves as in its whole habit. 
Radix Caloschis (by the inhabitants of Sitka) is of valus as 
a remedy. 
Habitat on mountains. 
v ARNICA LATIFOLIA 147. Root simple, oblique, as thick 
as a raven’s feather, fibrous; the fibers simple long. Stems sims 
ple, erect, terete, striate, pubescent with fine hairs, hollow, as 
thick as a rooster feather, separated above into a 3- (or rarely 5-) 
flowered corymb. Leaves opposite, decussate, remote (bearing 
3 on the whole stem), sessile, semiamplexicaul, subconnate, 
rarely attenuate into the petiole, ovate, obtuse, the upper acut- 
ish, irregularly dentate-serrate, pubescent above with very short 
hairs, glabrous beneath, pale, glaucescent when dry, 2 inches 
long, 1 inch wide, the uppermost smaller. Peduncles slender, 
erect, puberulent, much longer than the leaves, measuring about 
4 inches. Heads the size of those of A. montana. Involucre 
equalling the disk, campanulate, 1-serial, scales 8 subequal lan- 
