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corolla ; and to this my attention lias lately been called by a 

 good painting of what must be the same species, made by ray 

 friend Mrs. E iwson Peckinpah wlio resides in almost this 

 very region whence I had my specimens, and by whose 

 painting the beautiful CoUomia Raicsoniana first came to my 

 knowledge. 



DoDECATHEON PAUCIFLORUM. D. Mecidin, var. jxnicifloi-iin}, 

 Diirand, PI. Pratten, 95 (1855), as to plant of Rocky Mts. : 

 D. Meadla, var. cdpimnn, Coult. Eocky Mt. Bot. 233, as to 

 Eocky Mt. habitat only : D. 3Ieadia, Porter, Fl. Colo. 90, 

 not of Linn. : D. intcgrifolium, Nntt. Gen. i. 119, as to plant 

 from sources of Missouri : D. inlegrifoUam vnJgare, Hook. 

 PI. Bor.-Am. ii. 119, also D. integrifoUum of Bot. Mag. t. 3622, 

 not of Michx. 



The short perpendicular crown solitary, simple, producing 

 neither biilblets nor offsets : herbage glabrous, glandless, the 

 leaves deep green, entire, not depressed but suberect, i or i 

 as long as the tall scape : bracts of the few-flowered umbel 

 lanceolate : segments of corolla rich lilac-purple, the undivided 

 part (everted tube) yellow, with a narrow scalloped ring of 

 deep purple midway between the b.ase of the segments and 

 the stamen-tube : stamen-tube often nearly as long as the 

 anthers, yellow ; anthers purple : capsule crustaceous, | inch 

 long, slender, nearly cylindrical, acute, openino- by 5 short 

 teeth. 



The fruit of this common Eocky Mountain Dodecatheon 

 was not known until I obtained it last year. The capsule is 

 quite different from that of D. 2Ieadia in form as well as in 

 texture. The leaves of the plant are also much smaller 

 relatively to the scape, of a firmer texture and of a deeper 

 green than in the type of the genus ; besides, the markings 

 of the corolla are thorouglily dissimilar in the two. By 

 European authors it has always been considered wholly dis- 

 tinct from n. Meadla and has passed with them for the D. 

 integrifoUum of Michx.,but no doubt erroneously, for the gap 

 is too wide, geographically and climatically, between the 



