18 PLANTS BAKERIAN^E. 



light and rather vivid green and, to the unaided eye seem- 

 ing glabrous: leaves many and ample, from elongated-ovate 

 to broadly oblong, obtuse, or some even retuse, the cauline 

 sessile, the radical short-petioled, all 2 to 3 inches long, 

 minutely and sparsely strigose above, glabrous beneath: 

 flowers many, mostly in a single condensed terminal cluster, 

 those of the few subterminal branches similarly crowded, 

 the pedicels very short: calyx deeply cleft into ovate acute 

 or broadly lanceolate segments, these strongly hirsute- 

 ciliate and, in maturity, traversed by a very prominent 

 light-colored mid vein: corolla deep-blue, about 4 lines 

 long, the cylindric tube and carnpanulate limb about equal: 

 nutlets acutely ovate, brown when mature and indistinctly 

 sinuate-rugulose. 



On Poverty Ridge, near Cimarron, 13 June, in open 

 parks, n. 129; also at Cerro Summit, a smaller plant, n. 62. 



MERTENSIA LATERIFLORA. Stems tufted, rather strict and 

 very leafy, a foot high or more, the whole plant canescently 

 silky-strigulose: leaves almost crowded on the stem from 

 base to summit, oblong-linear, acutish, about 3 inches long: 

 short cymose flower-clusters in all the axils from near the 

 middle of the stem, on pedicels of about an inch long, the 

 lower not equalling, the uppermost little surpassing the 

 leaves: calyx small, completely divided into short-lanceolate 

 scarcely acute segments, these strongly appressed-villous and 

 ciliate: corolla of a light-blue, small, hardly 4 lines long, the 

 limb only distinctly shorter than the tube. 



Said to be common at 9,000 feet, above Carson, where it 

 forms large clusters, in flower 2 July, n. 334. Species cer- 

 tainly resembling M. linearis, but a much larger plant than 

 that, and with smaller flowers, the pubescence, however, 

 being totally different. The inflorescence is peculiarly 

 long, narrow and secund. 



