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rounded lobes: filaments filiform, exserted: style filiform, three times as 
long as the calyx: capsule elliptical, merely emarginate. Alpine regions 
of the Blue Mountains of Oregon. 
VY. Alleni Greenman Bot. Gaz. xxv, 263. Nearly glabrous below, pu- 
_bescent above: stems 3-4 inches high: lower leaves much reduced, upper 
sessile, thickish, oblong or oblong-ovate, 5-7 lines long, obtuse: inflores- 
cence glandular-pubescent: pedicels 1-3 lines long, often exceeding the 
bracts: calyx-lobes unequal, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or rounded at 
the apex covered on the outer surface and along th margins with long 
glandular hairs: corolla 3-4 lines in diameter, white or with a slightly 
purplish throat, the upper lobe subrhombic, emarginate, the lateral ones 
ovate or ovate-rhombic, somewhat larger than the lower one: stamens 
exserted: ovary closely covered above with short glandular hairs: style 
exserted: fruit not seen. Along Paradise river, Mount Rainier Wash. 
VY. Wormskioldii Rom. & Sch. Syst. i, 101. V. alpina of American 
authors’ not of L. Hirsute-pubescent or glabrate: stems slender, simple, 
3-12 inches high, from slender creeping rootstocks: leaves mostly shorter 
than the internodes, ovate to oblong, obscurely crenulate, 6-12 lines long, 
rounded, truncate or subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so: racemes 
spiciform or subspicate, dense, or) interrupted below: pedicels erect, 
shorter than the calyx, much shorter than the lanceolate bracts: corolla 
violet, its limb 2-3 lines in diameter, surpassing the stamens and short 
style: capsule elliptical-obovate, emarginate. In wet places in alpine 
regions, Alaska to California and across the Continent. 
VY. serpyllifolia L. Sp. 12. Pubescent or glabrous: stems creeping 
and branching at base, the branches at length ascending, 2~10 inches long: 
leaves all opposite and petioled, or the upper ones sessile, oblong to oval or 
ovate, 3-10 lines long, crenulate to entire: flowers in short spicate racemes 
at the ends of the stems or branches: pedicels equalling or longer than the 
calyx, usually shorter than the lanceolate or oblong bracts: corolla pale 
blue with darker stripes, to almost white, about 2 lines in diameter: sta- 
mens and style exserted: capsule broader than high, obcordate, about a 
line high, equalling the calyx: seeds flat. In wet places Alaska to Cali- 
fornia and across the Continent: also in Europe, Asia and South America. 
* * * Low annuals: flowers in the axils of ordinary or of the upper 
more or lsss reduced and commonly alternate leaves: corolla mostly 
shorter than the leaves. 
Vy. peregrina L. Sp. 14. Glabrous, or glandular-puberulent: stem 
erect, 2-6 inches high, usually branched from the base: leaves thickish, 
4-12 lines long, the lower petioled and oblong or oval, dentate; the others 
sessile, from oblong to linear-spatulate, mostly attenuate; uppermost more 
-bract-like and entire: pedicels a line long, much shorter than the bracts: 
corolla whitish, about a line in diameter, shorter than the calyx: stamens 
not exserted :¥capsule nearly orbicular, obcordate usually a little shorter 
than the calyx, 1-14 lines high, many-seeded: seeds flat. Common in 
moist or wet places Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent. 
Y. arvensis L. Sp. 13. Pubescent annual: stem slender, at first sim- 
ple and erect, at length much branched and diffuse, 2-10 inches long: 
lower leaves ovate or oval, opposite, obtuse at both ends, crenate or crenu- 
late, 2-6 lines long, the lowest petioled; upper leaves sessile, alternate, 
ovate or lanceolate, acute or acutish, commonly entire: pedicels very short: 
corolla blue or white, about a line in diameter, shorter than the calyx: 
capsule broadly ovate, obcordate, a line high. Common in waste places 
and pastures, Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent: 
naturalized from Europe. 
