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feet. The foliage of tliis is doubly toothed, i. e., Laving coarse 

 and salient primary teeth, with a smaller one in each sinus. 

 It is far less glandular than some other specimens Avhich I 

 can not but place with it ; and I have an almost perfectly 

 glabrous and quite entire-leaved specimen, in flower only, but 

 probably of the same species, collected in the blue mountairas 

 of Oregon, May, 1889, by Miss Bertha Anderson. But in 

 Mr. Macoun's No. 3, from Lytton, British Columbia, April 17, 

 1SS9, recurs the toothed foliage of the type, along with a very 

 marked viscosity of the whole herbage ; while the same 

 collector's No. 2, from Spencer's Bridge, is nearly as glandu- 

 lar, but the leaves are almost entire. The absolute characters 

 of the species are the peculiar turbinate termini of the pedi- 

 cels and the short capsiile. These are represented in none 

 but Mr. Cusick's specimens ; but they preclude the merging 

 of these forms in D. 'paucijforiim. Perhaps the more westerly 

 plants here placed under that species, may prove referable to 

 D. Cusickii when better known. 



- DoDECATHEOx CKEXATUM. Eootstock stout, horizontal or 

 ascending, short, simple or with a few branches, bearing 

 coarse white fibrous roots beneath, and rather larce bulblets 



, ^^^^^ xuiiiivi i.iif. 



above : leaves 6 to 10 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, tapering 

 to a winged petiole, acute or obtuse at apex, the whole margin 

 coarsely and regularly but not deeply erenate : scape 10 to 20 

 inches lugh, stout, bearing a many-flowered umbel : the 

 stoutish pedicels and deeply parted calyx somewhat glandular- 

 pubescent : flowers deep purple throughout: stamens distinct 

 to^ tlie very base : capsule ovate-oblong, coriaceous, c'ircura- 

 scissile near the apex, afterwards parting into 10 valves whose 

 tips are closely recurved. 



At and a little below the limit of trees on Mt. Eainier, 

 Washington, in fruit only, 20 August, 1889 ; collected by the 

 writer. Also seen in the herbarium of Prof. Henderson, from 



'od. The species has the root-character in part, and 

 also the gynoecium attributed to the obscure D. frujidnm; 

 but other plants are known to me which come much nearer to 



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