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fascicles, tvith large dilated membranous bracts : petals nearly twice as long as 

 the sepals : stigmas capitellate. Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, 

 to Washington Territory. 



Var. subcongesta, Watson. Flowers less densely fascicled and some- 

 what cvmose. Bot. Calif, i. 69. A. Fe.ndl.eri, var. subcongesta, of Bot. King's 

 Exp. and Fl. Colorado. Colorado, S. Idaho, and westward. 



2. A. capillaris, Poir., var. nardifolia, Regel. More or less glandular- 

 pubescent above : leaves linear-subulate, pungent : flowers few in an open cyme ; 

 bracts smull, lanceolate : petals half longer than the sepals. Watson in Bot. 

 Calif, i. 69. A. nardifolia, Ledeb., and A. formosa, Hook., in Bot. King's 

 Exp. 39. From the British boundary southward to the Wahsatch and 

 California. 



* * Petals about equalling the calyx. 



3. A. saxosa, Gray. Slightly-hispid pubescent : leaves lanceolate : raceme 

 many-flowered, somewhat cvmose : sepals with a distinct almost keel-like hispid 

 midrib. PL Wright, ii. 18. S. Colorado and southward. 



4. A. pungens, Nutt. Pubescent throughout, cespitose: leaves linear- 

 subulate, pungent, crowded : flowers in an open cyme, leafy-bracted: sepals 

 acuminate, pungent : seeds very few, smooth. W. Wyoming, Teton Moun- 

 tains, and westward to California. 



5. A. Franklinii, Doug-1. Of similar habit, but stouter and less pubescent : 

 stems leafy at base : flowers fascicled in a rather close cyme: sepals smooth and 

 shining, scariously margined, as also the large bracts. From Colorado to the 

 sources of the Missouri and westward to Oregon. 



Var. minor, Hook. & Arn. With shorter leaves, bracts, and sepals ; the 

 last two membranaceous. W. Wyoming, Parry. 



6. A. Fendleri, Gray. Stems numerous from a perennial caudex, glabrous 

 below, more or less glandular-pubescent abore, imbricately many-leaved at base : 

 leaves long, somewhat flattened, serrulate-scabrous, smooth except on the mar- 

 gins : cymes strict and few-flowered : sepals acuminate, with a broad scarious 

 margin: seeds papillose-scabrous. PI. Fendl. 13. Montana, Colorado, and 

 southward. 



Var. glabrescens, Watson. Nearly glabrous throughout: sepals shorter, 

 acute : leaves short. Bot. King's Exp. 40. Colorado and westward to 

 Nevada. 



Var. diflfusa, Porter. Branches of the cyme elongated, lax and widely spread- 

 ing : flowers numerous. Fl. Colorado, 13. Ute Pass, Colorado, Porter. 



2. The 3 valves of the capsule entire : seeds not appendaged at the hilum. Ours 

 are all cespitose, not more than 3 inches in height, usually 1 to few-flowered, and 

 with petals commonly exceeding the sepals. ALSINE. 



7. A. verna, L. Erect, pubescent or glabrous: leaves linear-subulate, 

 nerved, erect : cyme erect : sepals orate, acute, mostly a little longer than the petals. 

 Mountains of Colorado, Uintas, Teton Range, and northward to Arctic 

 America. 



Var. hirta, Watson. Leaves minutely hirsute, obtuse. Bot. King's 

 Exp. 41. With the last. 



