302 PITTONIA. 
Dry banks at St. Anne, near Edmonton, Alberta, collected 
by Mr. W. Spreadborough, 9 June, 1898; n: 19,285 of the 
Canad. Geol. Surv. Species uncommonly well marked and 
not otherwise known. 
. ©. conrertum. Stems purplish, 6 io 10 inches high, 
' hirtellous (under a lens) and most of the hairs gland-tipped: 
leaves in about 4 or 5 pairs, shore and remote, oblong-lan- 
ceolate, obtusish, ascending, the longest little more than 1 
inch long, all pubescent on both faces, scarcely glandular: 
cymes rather many-flowered but condensed, the whole 
scarcely an inch long except in age: sepals less than 2 lines 
long, oblong-ovate, obtuse at the abruptly scarious-tipped 
and purplish apex, the body strongly glandular-puberulent 
and strongly 1 to 3-nerved: corolla small, but’ well surpass- 
ing the calyx. = 
An excellent species, of which the only specimens seen, 
were collected at Stewarts Lake, British Columbia, 20 June, 
1875, by Mr. John Macoun, and on Telegraph Trail, in the 
same region, the same year, 24 June. . 
C. PATULUM.  Cespitose and low, the many flowering 
stems seldom exceeding 3 or 4 inches, decumbent, clothed 
with about 4 pairs of leaves and ending in a peduncled 
cyme of about 3 flowers : leaves subulate-lanceolate, scarcely 
3 inch long, spreading, pilose-pubescent above when young 
and somewhat bristly-ciliate at base, in age glabrate; those 
of the sterile shoots narrower, not much crowded though ex- 
ceeding the short internodes: leafy part of main stem retror- 
sely villous-pubescent, the peduncle glandular-hirtellous and 
quite viscid: bracts of the cyme broad and of oval outline: 
sepals 2 lines long, véry broad, obtusish, scantily strigulose 
and strongly 3-nerved: petals large, obcordate: capsule 
little surpassing the calyx. 
