Polygonaceae 79 



green above, white- woolly beneath. Scape 

 like peduncles, erect, 8-14 inches high, with 

 a simple, large umbel of 8-12 rays subtended 

 by a whorl of leaves. Flowers J-J of an 

 inch high, cream-coloured or nearly pure 

 white, and tinged with rosy pink especially 

 in age. 



A striking plant growing in stony places 

 and on rocky slopes, throughout the Rockies, 

 flowering in June and July. 



Tufted from a large rootstock. 



Leaves white and woolly through- 

 ochroleucum 



Small. oirt , densely crowded on the 



Yellowish- very short stems, elliptic to 

 white obovate-spatulate, half an inch 



Eriogonum. . , 



or more long, narrowed at the 

 base into slender, frequently spirally-twisted 

 petioles; scapes slender, several, six inches 

 or more high bearing a globular head of 

 pale yellowish-white flowers fV of an inch 

 high. 



On a moist rocky slope at an elevation 

 of 4500 feet near Glacier, abundant, the 



