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with a callous point in each sinus, or the crenation reduced to the callous 
oint only : scapes 10-20 inches high, stout, bearing a many-flowered um- 
1: the stoutish pedicels aud deeply parted calyx somewhat glandular- 
pubescent: flowers deep purple throughout: stamens distinct to the very 
base : capsule ovate-oblong, coriaceous, circumscissile near the apex, after- 
wards parting into 10 valyes whose tips are closely recurved. At anda 
little below the limit of trees on Mount Rainier Washington. ”’ 
D. tetrandrum Suksdorf, Greene 1. c. 40. Glabrous, or the inflores- 
cence minutely glandular: leaves spatulate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
3-12 inches long by 1-2 inches broad, tapering below to 4 winged petiole: 
scapes stout, 6-20 inches high: umbel few to many-flowered: involucral 
bracts setaceous: pedicels 1-3 inches long, enlarging at the summit: flow- 
ers mostly 4-merous: calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 3 lines long: 
corolla purplish with a yellow ring near the base, its lobes lanceolate, acute, 
6-8 lines long: staminal tube very short; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse, 
dark purple: capsule surpassing the calyx, circumscissile very near the 
apex, then splitting into 10 short recurving valves: seeds oblong, flat, with 
a marginal wing all around. In wet places in the Cascade Mountains. 
D. Jeffreyi Moore in Van Houtte Fl. des Serres xvi, 99, t. 1662. 
Glabrous except the hirsute and glandular inflorescence: leaves oblanceo- 
late, erect, 5-10 inches long, entire, acutish, mucronate: scapes 12-18 
inches high: umbel many-flowered: segments of the corolla ample, deep 
red-purple: stamens dark purple, usually only 4; anthers emarginate: style 
very distinctly hispidulous: capsule not surpassing the calyx, opening by 
valves from: the very apex. In wet placesin the mountains of eastern 
Oregon and California. | 
D. alpinum Greene 1. c. D. meadia var. alpina Gray. Glabrous 
throughout: leaves oblong-lanceolate to spatulate, obtuse, 1-3 inches long, 
tapering below to a short petiole: scape 4-10 inches high 1 to several- 
flowered : involucral bracts lanceolate, acute, 1-2 lines long: lobes of the 
calyx about as long as the tube, narrowly lanceolate: corolla-lobes narrowly 
oblong abruptly contracted near the apex, 6-8 lines long, purple wlth 
brownish-yellow base: staminal tube very dark,.a line long: anthers ob- 
jong, often apiculate. On wet banks and margin of lakes, Washington to 
alifornia. . 
D. conjugens Greene Eryth. iii, 40. ‘‘ Short crown with a dense 
fascicle of fleshy fibrous roots that are deciduous from it after the flower- 
ing,: whole plant glabrous: leaves obovoid and elliptic, 2 to 5 inches long 
including the distinct petiole, obtuse, entire: scape stoutish 3 to 8 inches 
high : umbel few-flowered; flowers large, 4-merous, rarely 6-merous: corolla 
deep purple, varying to rose red and to white: anthers distinct, obtse, 
the connective lanceolate, acuminate to a linear point, delicately rugulose 
throughout all but the linear tip: fruit unknown. Dry hills, southeastern 
Oregon and Montana. | 
DD. Hendersoni Gray Bot. Gaz, xi, 235. Glabrous throughout or the 
inflorescence minutely glandular: leaves elliptical to obovate, 1 inch or more 
long narrowed below toa short petiole: scape 4-16 inches high, rather few- 
flowered: involucral bracts triangular, acuminate: calyx-lobes triangular, 
acuminate, twice as long as‘the short tube: corolla-lobes dark purple with 
yellowish base: staminal tube a line long, dark purple: anthers oblong, 
obtuse, short-apiculate: capsule ovoid, much longer than the calyx, open- 
ing by a flat operculum and splitting downward into 10 valves: seeds glob- 
ular, minutely tuberculate. Common throughout the Willamette Valley 
and into California. 
+ + Capsule dehiscing by valves from the apex. 
D. pauciflorum Greene Pitt. ii, 72. Glabrous throughout: leaves 
