310 PITTONIA. 
long; racemose peduncles about 2 inches long; pedicels 
slender, spreading or deflexed, about .twice the length of 
the ovate pods, these about 2 lines long, little compressed, 
surmounted by a style 1 line long or more. 
Milk River, Assiniboia, 13 J uly, 1895, Mr. John Macoun; 
distributed (n. 10,313) as ZL. alpina, which it resembles only 
as to its pods, being by other characters extremely 
different. 
L. verstcotor. Evidently perennial, but root slender 
and branching and no true caudex manifest: basal leaves 
few and small, oval to oblanceolate on slender petioles, the 
blade entire or toothed; peduncles slend er, decumbent, often 
a foot long, oblanceolate leaves clothing the lower portion, 
the raceme in fruit long and lax; pubescence merely stellate 
and not dense: petals sulphur-yellow changing to pink: 
spreading pedicels slender, $ inch long; pods small, glo- 
bose, little more than a line in diameter, stellate-tomentose, . 
the slender style fully 2 lines long. 
Stony Mountain, Manitoba, 4 June, 1896, Mr. Macoun. 
The specimens were distributed (n. 12,401) for L. Ludovi- 
ciana, the podg being globose, and the pubescence stellate; 
but the plant is widely removed. from that species in habit, 
foliage, ete., much more nearly resembling certain species 
of the Mexican border in aspect, not to speak of the change- 
able color of the corolla, in which point, as well as in some 
others, it recalls L. purpurea. i 
.. L. Macountt. Perennial, the stout root surmounted by an 
ample rosette of foliage and several decumbent peduncles, 
ese 3 to 5 inches long and in fruit loosely racemose from ` 
toward the base: leaves canescently lepidote-stellate on 
both faces, 13 to 2 inches long, the stout petioles and oval 
