484 UENTIANACEiE. Frasera. 



§ 1. ^ pair of glands on each division of the corolla : divisions of the calyx linear : 

 Jloivers in a narrow leafy thyrsus : capsule much Jlatteued contrary to the deep 

 boat-shaped or almost conduplicate valves. 



1. F. speciosa, l)ou<,d. 8tout, 2 to 5 feet lii^^li, very leafy : leaves uervose, in 

 whorls of lour to aix, not \vliite-uiary;iiie(l ; tlio radiciil and lowest caulino obovate 

 or oblong, G to 10 inches long, above lanceolate and becoming linear: llowers on 

 slender ut length strict pedicels in umbel-like pedunculate cymes (or some fascicled 

 in the axils), forming a long virgate thyrsus : corolla greenish-white or barely tinged 

 bluish, conspicuously dark-dotted, not longer than the sepals ; its divisions oval- 

 oblong, bearing a pair of oblong and strongly fringed glands about the middle, 

 crowned at base by a fringe of 8 to 10 long setaceous lilaments. — Cirisebach iu 

 Hook. Fl. ii. 00, t. 153. Tcssaranthium radialum, Kellogg, Pn)c. Calif. Acad. ii. 

 142, tig. 41. 



Along tho eastern parts of the Siena Nevada (from Tuolumne Co. Brewer) ; thence northward 

 to the interior of Washington Territory, and east to Wyoming and New Mexico. Divisions 

 of the corolla two thirds ot an inch long; the fringe-like crown adnate to their base, and wholly 

 separate from the base of the quite distinct stamens. Style not longer than the ovary : seeds 30 

 or more. 



F. PANicuLATA, Torr. in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 126, is a New Mexican species of this section, im- 

 perfectly known. 



§ 2. A single (jland -with a. notched sintunit on each division of the thickish corolla : 

 divisions of the calyx ovate-lanceolate or broader : flowers loosely and tffasely 

 cymose-panicled. [Mature capsule unknown.) 



2. F. Parryi, Torr. Stout, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves opposite and in threes, 

 lanceolate, with cartilaginous white margins; the lioi-al and bracts oblong and ovate : 

 divisions of the whitish and dark-dotted corolla ovate, commonly acute, half an 

 inch long ; the fringed gland below its middle. Innately obcordate and with rounded 

 naked base. — Bot. Mox. Bound. 150. 



Southern part of the State, cast of San Diego and Los Angeles, Coulter, Wallace, Parry. 

 Ovary apparently llattisli i.arailcl wilh the carjiels : ovules rather few. 



F. Ai.noMAUGiNATA, Watson, Bot. King Kxp. 280, of Southern Utah and Nevada, and to be 

 looked for on the southeastern borders of California, is of this section. It is a small species, nar- 

 row leaved ; the divisions of the corolla conspicuously cuspidate ; and the fiinged obcordate dark 

 gland on the middle of the petal runs into an adnate scale-like appendage, fixed by its back quite 

 down to the base, the fnse margins fringed, and united across the base by a small laciniate portion, 

 forming a somewhat hooded base, as in the next. 



§ 3. A simjle oblong or linear and entire (/land reachlw/ from near the base to near 

 the middle of each division of the thinnish [pale blue or lavender-adored) 

 corolla : divisions of the calyx subulate- lanceolate : Jloivers thrysoid-glomerate : 

 capsule flattened parallel with the valves, few-seeded. 



3. F. nitida, Benth. Glabrous throughout (not minutely and closely pubeiulent 

 as in F. albicaulis), a foot or more high, slender : leaves only 3 to 5 pairs, linear 

 (2 to 4 inches long, 2 or 3 lines wide, the radical longer and gramineous), white- 

 margined : flowers glomerate in 3 or 4 pairs of short-peduncled or subsessile dense 

 cymes or glomerules, forming a naked and interrupted spicate thyrsus : lobes of the 

 corolla ovato-oblong, becoming lanceolate (3 or 4 lines long) ; the gland with a sliort 

 inllexetl fringe all round, which is longer and more laciniate at the hooded base: 

 crown stamiiieal, consisting of linear or obh)ng laciniate or nearly entire scales alter- 

 nate and ])artly connate with the bases of the lilaments. — Tl. llartw. 322 ; Torr. in 

 Pacif. B. Bep. iv. 120. 



Foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada (Ilartwcg, Bic/clow, kc), and Sierra Valley {Lanmon, &c.), to 

 Oregon, Lyall, Ncvius. Probably this may bo only a variety of F. albicaulis of Oregon (Hook. 

 Fl. t. 15-1), extending as it does into the range of that species. The crown appears to be dill'erent, 

 but its characters are variable. 



