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tenfl. 21: 293, pl. 739. 1872; Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 99. 
1876; Bot. Calif. 1: 569. 1876; Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2:: 279. 1878, 
ed. 2, and Suppl. 446. 1886; Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 
120. 1885; Howell, Fl. Northwest Am. 552. 1901; Piper, 
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 11: 509. 1906; Hall in Univ. Calif. 
Publ. Bot. 1: 118. 1902; Yosemite Fl. 220. 1912; Rydb. Fi. 
Rocky Mountains, 780. 1917; Smiley in Univ. Calif. Publ. 
Bot. 9: 331. 1921. РІ. 8, fig. 3. 
M. pilosellus Greene in Erythea 4: 22. 1896; Howell, Fl. 
Northwest Am. 522. 1901. 
M. nevadensis Gdgr. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 19: 218. 1919. 
M. primuloides var. pilosellus (Greene) Smiley in Univ. Calif. 
Publ. Bot. 9: 332. 1921. 
А variable perennial, stoloniferous, or reproducing by surface 
runners or by bulbils attached to the underground stems, sub- 
acaulescent with radical leaves or the stems 3-10 cm. high, bearing 
several pairs of leaves, internodes close together or almost as 
long as the leaves, glabrous or viscid-pilose with long soft hairs; 
leaves broadly obovate, oblong or sometimes cuneate, tapering 
а narrow, somewhat connate, sessile base, 1-2.5 cm.. long, 
9-7 mm. broad, light green to gray-green, thin, entire or dentate, 
occasionally with an undulate margin, 3-5-nerved, glabrous or 
with long, white, jointed hairs scattered on the upper surface; 
flowers few, mostly solitary, scapose, pedicels 4-10 cm. long, 
glabrous, slender, elongated; calyx tubular, 4-8 mm. long, weakly 
angled, glabrous, often tinged with red, teeth broadly triangular- 
acute, frequently mucronate, equal, mostly ciliate; corolla funnel- 
form, .8-2 em. long, yellow, sometimes with reddish-brown spots 
on the lobes and down the throat below the lower lip, tube ex- 
Serted, less than twice as long as the calyx, throat ampliate, 
lobes spreading, emarginate or obcordate, the lower lip slightly 
longer than the upper; upper pair of stamens exserted, anthers 
hispid, rarely glabrous, filaments glabrous; style exserted, gla- 
brous, stigma-lips oblong, unequal; capsule included, placentae 
Separating at the apex; seeds oval, reticulate. 
Distribution: growing in patches in moist meadows above 4000 
ft. alt., from the Rocky Mountains to Washington, southward to 
southern California. | 
