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than twice as large, usually more than a foot high, leaves 
more ascending, much narrower, never of ovate but always 
elliptic or lanceolate outline, the uppermost ones, closely sub- 
tending the flowers, much larger than the others and appear- 
ing as thin subscarious bracts of ovate-lanceolate outline, 
often 3 as long as the corolla: calyx-tube thin, almost cylin- 
dric, 4. e., little dilated, the teeth relatively small and short, . 
not 4 the length of the tube: deep-purple corolla 14 inches 
long, its lobes ovate, acutish, the short folds bipid and also 
somewhat lacerate or incise-serrate: seeds of variable out- 
line but mostly oblong, winged at base and often along one 
side, the wing narrow, sometimes continued also across the 
summit. 
This excellent, large and beautiful species I judge to 
have been imperfectly known to Dr. Englemann, whose 
"narrow-leaved form" of G. Parryi appears to have been 
ihis; and the specimens of that species given me by Dr. 
Parry himself twenty years ago out of his original material 
are partly this. But I confess I can not understand how a 
botanist of Dr. Engelmann's attainments, notieing the nar- 
row foliage, could have overlooked the conspicuous large 
thin braets which mark even the smallest specimens of this 
as wholly distinct from G. Parryi. And the lobes of the 
corolla, obovate and cuspidately acute in G. Parryi, are 
here about as nearly ovate as possible, with never a trace 
of the cusp or abrupt apical point. G. bracteosa belongs 
properly to southern Colorado, as G. Parryi to the northern 
portion of the State. My typical specimens are of my own 
collecting, at Marshall Pass in 1896, supplemented by most 
excellent ones by C. F. Baker, from near Pagosa Peak, 28 
Aug. 1899. Mr. Theo. Holm brought it the same year 
from Mt. Massive, near Leadville, at an altitude of 11,000 
feet. 
