A DECADE OF NEW GENTIANACES. 185 
inches long including the broad petiole of an inch or more, 
the proper cauline ones much reduced, sessile, often in 3 or 
4 pairs: flowers 4-merous, 1 to 3 on each of a half-dozen 
peduncles axillary to the bracts: sepals lanceolate, broad, 
scarcely acute: segments of the corolla oblong, very obtuse, 
of a pale lurid purplish color, the glands bordered by few 
and subulate-setaceous appendages. 
Wet banks and bars of Hurricane Creek, eastern Ore- 
gon, W. C. Cusick, 25 Aug., 1898 (under n. 2100 in my 
set). A species remarkably well characterized by its very 
obtuse corolla-lobes, and very coarse fringe of the glands. 
J 8. ovALrFOLIA. About a foot high; leaves small, oppo- 
site, the oval or often elliptical acutish blades 1 to 2 inches 
long, on petioles somewhat shorter: flowers 5-merous: 
sepals triangular-lanceolate, acute; corolla of a light blue- 
purple, its segments oblong, acutish, the glands bordered 
with a dense slenderly setaceous rather than capillary fringe. 
Alpine bogs in the Blue Mountains, Oregon, collected by 
W. C. Cusick, the date not indicated in so far as I have 
seen. Beautifully distinct by a small ophioglossaceous 
foliage and rather large pentamerous flowers. 
The following species of FRAsERA seem to deserve recog- 
nition. 
‘F. venosa. Solitary stem and elongated inflorescence 
about a yard high; herbage pale-green, retrorsely hirtellous- 
puberulent throughout: lowest leaves 8 to 14 inches long, 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute, very strongly 5-veined or almost 
ribbed from base to apex, the midrib and parallel veins 
very prominent beneath and whitish: lance-linear sepals 
