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with one or more very short-peduncled ones from the same 
axil, the terminal flower quite as often solitary, but not as 
long-peduncled as the main lateral ones: herbage glabrous: 
leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 1 to 14 inches long, 
obtuse, sessile, the very lowest more usually obovate and 
narrowed to a not very short petiole: flowers nearly $ inch 
long: calyx with 2 greatly enlarged and bract-like sepals 
of ovate outline, apparently opposite, and completely enfold- 
ing the 3 shorter linear lanceolate ones, these larger more 
than equalling the tube of the corolla; this from deep blue- 
purple to lurid and greenish-purple; only the rotate limb 
exserted. 
High mountains about Pagosa Peak, southern Colorado, 
C. F. Baker, August, 1899. A member of the Amarella 
group of gentians, most related to G. heterosepala, but the 
calyx, as well as the habit and inflorescence of the plant, 
very different. I am not sure that the large bract-like 
organs below the flower are not a real involucre, and that 
the three segments within them alone represent the calyx. 
The specimens have been distributed from different alti- 
tudes under two names. The plant from the greater eleva- 
tion, 12,000 feet, smaller and otherwise peculiar in color of 
flowers and general aspect is the one which, in Mr. Baker's 
distribution, bears the name G. distegia, the larger one, with 
lurid corollas, from an altitude of 9,000 feet, was named 
G. anomala; but I do not now find characters for two species. 
But the names may stand according to the tickets, with the 
small plant for true distegia, should two species hereafter be 
well made out. 
I have long doubted that our North American represen- 
tation of the genus SwznrIA is rationally to be accepted as 
constituting but a single species, and that the whole or any 
