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hirtellous; peduncles rather numerous, minutely hirtellous- 
puberulent, bibracteolate near {the flower, the  bractlets 
opposite, herbaceous, spatulate-linear; sepals oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, not scarious-margined, glabrous: corolla large 
for the plant, 7 or 8 lines broad; petals consimilar, all with 
rounded obovate blade, the keel as large and as long as 
any; spur prominent but not elongated, thick and 
obtuse. | 
This curious dwarf, so perfectly resembling an acaulescent 
species, was obtained along with V. petrophila, from crevices 
of rocks about Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, by Mr. 
Anderson; and these two were distributed as if taken for 
representatjves of the same species, under the Canadian 
Survey number 19,910. Butaninvestigation of the charac- 
ters renders it impossible to treat the present plant as a 
dwarf and condensed state, either of V. petrophila or any 
other species recognized. 
V. ANDERSONII. Caulescent, the short decumbent stems 
and elongated petioles and peduncles stoutish and commonly 
glabrous, or nearly so: leaves broadly cordate, 13 inches 
long and quite as broad, the earliest smaller and approach- 
ing reniform, all obviously crenate, appressed bristly-hairy 
along the veins above, marginally ciliolate, nearly or quite 
glabrous beneath; stipules lanceolate, incisely toothed: 
peduncles 5 or 6 inches long and surpassing all the foliage, 
bibracteate near the middle but the bracts remote; sepals 
lanceolate, ciliolate: corolla not large for the plant, about ? 
inch long, the petals subequal, or the pair next the keel 
exceeding it in size; spur short and thick. 
Thetis Lake, British Columbia, 28 April, 1900, collected 
by Mr. James R. Anderson. Very well marked, as a species 
of the canina group, by its broad-cordate leaves of large size, 
