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margined, the oack showing a few irregular rugse and some 

 interspersed tuberculation. 



Deer Run, 11 June, on a dry bank; n. 133. 



OREOCARYA NITIDA. Multicipitous, slightly woody at 

 base, the stoutish stems a foot high, copiously leafy at base? 

 the leaves 2 to 4 inches long, oblanceolate, acute, tapering 

 to a long petiolar basal portion, this again dilated at the 

 insertion, both faces equally silvery-silky or satiny, without 

 other pubescence: flowers copious, in a loose open thyrsus of 

 close racemes: calyx in fruit J inch long, the segments 

 narrowly linear except at the broad base, clothed through- 

 out with a dense white villous tomentum and some inter- 

 spersed setose-hispid hairs; corolla J inch long or more, 

 with very narrow tube abruptly widening to form a short 

 throat, the proper limb three lines broad, the color of the 

 whole apparently white: nutlets (mostly solitary) large, 

 ovate, straight and erect, dark-brownish, closely covered 

 with a minute whitish almost muricate tuberculation. 



In dry stony ground at Deer Run, 11 June, n. 95. A 

 species noteworthy by the whiteness and softness of its 

 almost satiny indument. 



Other Asperifolise of the collection are Cryptanthe Fendleri, 

 Greene, n. 780; C. crassisepala, Greene, n. 75; Allocarya 

 scopulorum, Greene, nn. 152, 938; Lappula occidentalis, 

 Greene, n. 327; L. ursina, Greene, n. 471, the species a rare 

 one, but the specimens too young; Lithospermum Torreyi, 

 Nutt., or possibly a new species closely allied to it, n. 127; 

 Oreocarya multicaulis, Greene, n. 455; Eritrichium aretioides, 

 Rydb., n. 845; Mertensia ciliata, Don, nn. 189, 403, 486; 

 M. pratensis, Heller, nn. 391, 773; M. Bakeri, Greene, nn. 

 293, 497. 



