FRASERA GENTIANACEZ 449 
MENYANTHES 
_ Grande Ronde Valley, eastern Oregon. 
F. albicauiis Dougl. Griseb. l.c. Very minutely pruinose-puberulent: 
stems 10-18 inches high: radical leaves linear-spatulate, 2-4 inches long, 
attenuate below to a petiole: lobes of the corolla subulate, long acuminate, 
white margined, entire: lobes of the corolla lanceolate, acuminate: glands 
linear, closed below into a kind of pocket: scales between the filaments 
ehrone, laciniately cleft at the summit. Eastern Oregon and Washington 
to Idaho. 
Suborder 2. Menyanthex Griseb. Gent. 336. Marsh or aquatic 
perennials with heterogonous flowers. Leaves all alternate and 
mostly petioled. Corolla induplicate-valvate in the bud. Seed- 
coat crustaccous. 
6 MENYANTHES Tourn. L. Gen. n. 202. 
Perennial herbs with chiefly radical leaves, and white flowers 
on erect scapes or scape-like peduncles. Calyx 5-parted. Co- 
rolla somewhat funnelform or campanulate. 5-cleft, the lobes 
widely spreading, fimbriate or crested on the inner face. Stamens 
5, inserted on the tube of the corolla’; filaments filiform ; anthers 
sagittate, versatile. Ovary one-celled; style long and slender; 
stigma bilamellate. Capsule oval, indehiscent, but bursting 
irregularly across the top. Seeds rather few and large, orbicular 
and compressed ; the close crustaceous coat smooth. 
M. trifoliata L. Sp. 145. Scapes and leaves stout, 6-10 inches long, 
from a thick underground scaly stem or rootstock : leaves trifoliolate; long- 
petioled ; leaflets oblong or obovate, entire or repand, obtuse at the apex, 
narrowed to a sessile base, pinnately veined, 1-3 inches long: raceme borne 
on a long scape-like naked peduncle, 10-20-flowered: pedicels stout, 3-12 
lines long, bracteolate at the base: flowers 5-7 lines long: corolla white or 
tinged with rose, the tube longer than the calyx, the upper surface of the 
lobes copiously fim briate-bearded : capsule ovoid, obtuse, about 4 lines long. 
In bogs, Alaska to California and across the Continent. 
Orper LXIII POLEMONIACE DC. FI. Franc. ili, 645. 
Herbaceous or rarely shrubby plants with bland colorless 
juice, simple or divided leaves without stipules and_ perfect 
regular flowers with a free ovary and hypogynous disk. Cal 
5-parted or 5-lobed, imbricated in the bud, persistent. Corolla 
5-lobed, dextrorsely convolute and not plicate in the bud. Sta- 
mens 5, distinct, inserted on the tube of the corolla, alternate 
with its lobes. Style one, 3-lobed, or 3-cleft and stigmatic down 
the inner face. Fruit a 3-celled loculicidal capsule, usuall 
with a thick placental axis; and few or many small amphi- 
tropous or nearly anatropous seeds with a thin or soft coat, 
commonly developing mucilage when wetted. Embryo straight 
and rather large, in the axis of a fleshy or harder albumen. 
Cotyledons flat or flattish and rather broad. 
* Leaves opposite and entire: seeds not mucilagnous when wet. 
1 Phlox Stamens unequally inserted and included in the narrow tube 
