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Little Belt Mountains) is deposited at New York. 

 Other collections reviewed by Moore and Franklin 

 (1963) for the original description include: Senn, 

 Frankton & Gillett 5670 , August 23, 1951, Montana, 

 Meagher Co., Kings Hill, 8000 ft (DAO) ; Senn 6207 . 

 July 29, 1953 Montana, Meagher Co., Little Belt 

 Mtns., 20 mi S. of Neihart, Forest Green Resort, 

 5,600 ft (DAO) . 



E. Comments on current alternative taxonomic 



treatments: None, however, after a review of 

 several specimens collected in 1990, Dr. Arthur 

 Cronquist (1991) states, "I included C. lonqistylum , 

 with some reluctance, in the single-volume flora for 

 the Pacific Northwest, but I was uneasy about it 

 then and I remain so now." Full collections from a 

 wide range of populations at various elevations will 

 be sent to Dr. Cronquist in the fall of 1991. 



2. Present legal or other formal status. 



A. International: None. 



B. National. 



1. United States. 



a. Present designated or proposed legal 

 protection or regulation: U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service : Currently, the species 

 is included in Category 2 of the U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service Notice of Review 

 (U.S. Department of Interior 1990), under 

 consideration for federal listing as a 

 threatened species. Category 2 taxa are 

 those "... for which information now in 

 possession of the Service indicates that 

 proposing to list them as endangered or 

 threatened species is possibly 

 appropriate, but for which substantial 

 data on biological vulnerability and 

 threat (s) are not currently known or on 

 file to support the immediate preparation 

 of rules." 



b. Other current formal status 

 recommendations.: The species is currently 

 listed as "endangered throughout range" 

 (global rank = G2) by the Montana Natural 

 Heritage Program Shelly (1990). 



