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Flowers early June. Hardy. 

 Habitat. — Western and central North America. 

 Occurs in two forms : (i) the typical form with very short, tufted, 

 barren stems and flower stems 4 or 5 inches long ; and (2) with 



Fig. 161. — 5. stenopetalum Pursh. 



elongate, procumbent stems, barren shoots up to 6 inches long, flower- 

 shoots up to 12 inches long, procumbent below, erect above ; whole 

 plant more vigorous, sometimes suffused with dark purplish red. 



S. stenopetalum is rather rare in cultivation, but generally correctly 

 named. Collected specimens from British Columbia and Colorado, 

 and many others from gardens in England, Geneva, Lindau, Petrograd, 

 and New York, belong to the typical form. The diffuse form I have 



