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hispidulous, the hairs of the upper surface stouter and more 
enlarged at base: flowers many, small, orange-colored, sessile 
or nearly so, in the forks and axils: ovary subcylindric, less 
than 4 inch long at flowering time and after: calyx-lobes 
slenderly subulate at flowering, almost as long as the ovary: 
petals 5 only, about 4 lines long: stamens few; filaments 
nearly filiform: anthers suborbicular: capsule and seeds 
unknown. 
Eastern Wyoming, in cafions leading to the Platte River, 
13 July, 1894, Prof. A. Nelson. A very well marked species, 
apparently annual, and certainly allied to the Mexican 
M. aspera, but much larger and more diffusely branching, 
the leaves relatively broader. 
Dodecatheon glastifolium. Crown depressed, small, 
bearing rather few and short roots: leaves few, mostly 
oblong-lanceolate, rarely broader, 3 inches long or more 
including the distinct and rather slender petiole, entire, 
obtusish, the whole herbage glabrous and glandless: scape 
solitary, a foot high; umbel of only from 1 to 5 long-pedi- 
celled flowers: corolla lilac-purple with a broad yellow band 
below the segments: stamens 4, distinct; connective with 
broadly subulate plicate-rugose base and long filiform 
extension reaching to the summit of the anther: capsule 
large, nearly 3 inch long, thin-walled, circumscissile; style 
stout, slender-conical below the middle. 
Lava Beds of Modoc Co., Calif., Mrs. Austin, 1894. 
DopECATHEON HENpERSONII, var. Hanseni. Leaves of 
firmer texture than in the type, narrower and quite entire; 
the whole plant quite glabrous: united portion of the corolla 
much broader: andreecium shorter and less tapering; 
elevated and rugulose part of the connective oblong-lan- 
ceolate, tapering at both ends; anthers with spreading or 
recurved tips. 
Foothills of the Sierra Nevada, Amador Oo., Calif., Geo. 
Hansen. The andreecium in this plant is so very unlike 
