36 PITTONTIA. 
the best specimens seen are those collected on the British Behring 
Sea Commissions’ Expedition, by Mr. James M. Macoun, at 
probably the original station, 25 July, 1891 (n. 20,080). If not 
quite the tallest, this is the most robust member of the genus, 
and easily distinguished from all others by the short strict very 
hairy raceme. There are others with calyx nearly as long in 
proportion to the capsule. 
2. R.SrtcHENsis, Bong. Plant often taller than the last, but 
at least typically thin-leaved, and with slender petioles and pe- 
duncles; often loosely branching from the crown and each 
branch loosely bulbous at base; herbage almost glabrous : leaves 
more rounded, less reniform, 5 to 7-lobed and the lobes not 80 
shallow, commonly acutish : pedicels elongated, slender, ascend- 
ing: calyx small, the obovate retuse capsule greatly exceeding it. 
To this I am obliged to concede both a greater geographical — 
range, and a wider diversity of aspect and size than I should 
like. In its original and typical state, as a tall lax slender 
plant I trace it from the Alaskan seaboard down to Vancouver 
Island (Macoun, n. 17,028); and apparently also the coast of 
Washington. In the alpine regions of inland mountains occurs 
a low condensed wholly acaulescent and distinctly bulbous form — 
which, when I first detected it, on Mt. Ranier in 1889, I named 
in manuscript R. bulbosa; but now, tracing this in the herbaria 
all the way from the Scott Mountains in northern California 
(my own n. 997 of 1876), eastward to Montana (R. S. Williams — 
in U. S. Herb.), and northward through British Columbia 
(Macoun, nn. 8,339; 8, 341; 34, 915) and out to the Alaskan 
shores (Funston, n. 123; as in Herb. Canad. Surv., though not 
as in U. S. Herb.), where it passes into the larger and typical 
state, I see that it can scarcely be maintained in anything more 
than varietal rank. 
I note that the corollas of this species are never so narrow and _ 
small as represented in Bongard’s plate, 
long, and usually twice or thrice as broad 
Regels’ var. grandiflora goes with me for 
They are always a8 
as there shown; and 
nought. : 
