484 (il'INTIANACE^). Frasera. 



1. A pair of ijlainlx on enr/i t/ii'ixioi, ,,/' 1 1,,' cnmll, t : ,/ii>isions of the calyx linear: 

 jtoit'irs in u narrow leaf;/ t////rs//s .- en/mule much flattened contrary to t/i<- <l /> 



//(Kit xllil/>l'<l or illllloxt rnnilll/ili/'ilti' m//V.S. 



I. F. SpeciOSa, huu^l. Stonf, Ii fo , r > feet hi<di, very leafy : leaves nervoso, in 

 whorl;, ,,|' lour !,o six, mil, white margined ; the nnlicul and lowest catiline ol.ovale 



or oldoli", (> to 10 inches |o||.', alio\o lanceolate ;il|i| In-coining linear: Mowers (ill 



..lender ,-il, length slric.l, pedicels in undid like. |iednneiil:i.le. cymes (or some fascicled 

 in the axils), forming a lon^ vir^ile I hy rsns : corolla greenish while ur hardy fin-ed 

 Itluisli, OOnaploUOtuly dark dotted, nut, lunger Mian the .sepals ; its divisions oval- 

 oblolig, l>curiiio; u pair of oNon;; and .',lron;dy fringed glands ahoid I lie middle, 

 crowned at. l>a..e l>\ a Inu-e o|' S to 10 lon^, setaceous lilainenls. (irisehacli in 

 Hook. Kl. ii. (id, I, |;'i.".. Tt-mtranthi.um rn</i<i//t///, KeHo^, I 'roc.. Calif. Acad. ii. 

 14U, UK- 41. 



Aldlif,' Ilin nisliTii part s (if t lie Sierra Nevada (frtini 'I'lioliiiiinc ( 'o. /,'/v//v/-) ; tliciicc m.rtliwanl 

 to Mir inlriim ,,( \\ ;i ,1 1 1 1 i^'l nil Territory, ami cast to Wyoming and Nrw Mexico. Divisions 

 of I lie corolla l\vo Mi in I;: of ;ni inch loii^; (lie fringe like crown ad nut o to Mieir liase, ami wholly 

 separate from Hie lia.se of the ipiile dislincl. slamens. Style not longer than the ovary : seeds ."'(I 

 or more. 



I 1 '. PAKIOTJLATA, Torr. ill I'acif. I,'. 1,'ep. iv. I-JC, is a New Mexican species of this sect ioll, im- 

 perfectly known. 



Ii. .1 .s/////c (//inn/ -irif/i n nofr/n'il xiniiniif on tar// ifii'ision of f/n tlt!<-kisli a>r<>ll<t : 

 (fn'isioiits <>>' tin' ni/i/.i- OVOto-fan&oUfa or linxnl, r : jloti'frtt l<>ox<l// ii/n/ (/iixili/ 

 ci/Hiost'-jxtHtctt'tt. (Mtt/tire r<t/>xnl<' MfdblOWA.) 



2. P. Paiiyl, Torr. Stout, 2 or 3 feet lii-,di : leaves opposite and in llnves, 

 lanceolate, wil.li eaiiila^inoiis wliiti^ margins ; the Moral and liraets oliloiio; anil ovate : 

 divisions of the whitish and dark dotted corolla OVatd, C'Hniiionly acute, half an 

 inch lolij^ ; the fringed c/lainl In-low its niiddln. Innately olieordate and with rounded 

 naked base. Hot, Me\. I'.onnd. 158, 



Southern pint of the Stale, east of San l>ie#> mill Los Angeles, Cini/fcr, ll'all<i,r, I'urr/i. 

 Ovary apparently llattisli parallel with the cai|'ds : ovules rather lew. 



I 1 '. Al.lioMAIiiUNATA, \Viilsoii, Hot. Ixini; Kxp. 'JSd, of Southern I'tah and Nevada, and to In- 

 looked lor oil the southeastern horders of California, is of this section. It is a small species, nar- 

 n>w leased , the divisions of the corolla conspicuously cuspidate ; and the fringed olicordalc dark 

 Klinul on the middle of the petal runs into an initiate scale like appendage, fixed liy ils back ipiite 

 down to tlio Imse, the free margins fringed, and united across the l>ase hy a small laciniatc portion, 

 forming n some\\ hat hooded base, as in the next. 



JJ. A ftinylf ot>/on</ or /incur and entire <jl<un1 rt<-/tin</ from near the base to near 



the i>n\/<//t' of <'<tc/i (tii'ixion of f/K' thiiniitli (/><!/< liliif or l<tr< -inf, r ro/or<'t() 

 corolla : (firisioiis of tin- <///.> xn/>i/f<t/< l<tnc>l<it< : j!oit'<rx t/trt/soid-gtomeratti 

 Cdfwu/e Jlattairt/ ]>>'//< I irit/i the i'<i/i'<'n, f< ir titled. 



3. F. llitida, lienth. Clalirons throuohoid (not ininnlely and closely piil.eiiilenl 

 as in /'. n/oii'itit/ix), a foot or more hi;;h, slender: leaves only 3 to f> pairs, linear 

 (Ii to I inches loiij^, 'J or 3 lines wide, the radical longer and o-nunincons), white 

 inar^incil : Mowers glomerate in ." or I pairs of short pedmicled or snlisessilc densi- 

 cymcs or :;lonicrnlcs, forniino; a naked and interrupted spicate thyrsus : lohes ol' the 

 oiolla ovate oldoni;, becoming lanceolate (.'> or -I lines loni;) ; the o-hmd with a short 

 inllexed IVin:-,v all round, which is longer and more laciniate at the hooded liase : 

 crown slainineal. consisting of linear or oldon^ laciniate or nearly entire scales alter- 

 nate and partly connate with the liases of the lilanients. 1M. llartw. .'il'l! ; Torr. in 

 I'aeif. K\ K'ep.'iv. l-Jl'i. 



Foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada (//,i r/ir,;t. t>i<K'lu; .^c.1, mid Sierr:i Valley (/.<->ii n>n, ln-.\ to 

 OngOIl, Lyatlt A''f/.v. 1'roliaMy this may he only a variety of /'. at/n'ctui/is of Oregon (.llook. 

 l-'l. t. l.M\ exlcndiii!; as ii does into the ran^e of that species. Tlio crown appears, to ho tlitfoivnt, 

 hut its .'haracters ure variable. 



