8 IIANUNCLILACE.E. Clemalls. 



C. Douglasii, Hook. A foot or two high, villous-piit>CL-ccnt rvh'^n ynnnrr p-labrate, leafy: 

 stem and petioles anplefl aud striate : ulvioluiiS acd lol)es of the lealves linear or lanceolate 

 (from half line to 3 •>• t Hues broad) : peduucles sonietimes slightly sonietinies very much 

 surpassing the uppermost leaves : calyx au iuch to inch and a half long, villous outside, 

 more or less glabrate in age, purple within : akeues pubescent : persistent styles slender, iuch 

 long, very plumose.— Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 1, t. 1 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 8. C. Wi/elhii, i:iutt. 

 Journ. Acad. Philad. vii. 6 ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. — Rocky Mountains from Montana, Idaho, 

 and north of the British bouudary to Colorado and New Mexico, and Mest to Gregou and 

 Washington ; first cull, by JJom/las. ^'aries greatly in foliage, in the degree and coarse- 

 ness or fineness of the dissection ; a southern form (S. Colorado and N. New Mexico) witli 

 very narrow leaflets most distinctly showing tortuous petioles, as if disposed to climb. The 

 broad-leaved extreme is 



Var. Scottii, Coultkr. Leaves large, pinnate with some or .ill the divisions 3^5- 

 parted or 3-5-foliolate , lobes or leaflets oblong- or ovate-lanceolate (4 or 5 lines wide by an 

 iuch in length) ; some upper leaves with distinctly tortuous partial petioles. — Man. Rocky 

 Mt. Reg. 3. C. ScoUii, I'orter in Porter & Coulter, Fl. Col. I. — Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado;! first coU. by John Scott, and by Porter. Also Beaver Caiion, Idaho, IVatson. 



§ 3. AxRiGENE, DC. Flowers large, hermaphrodite, solitary on naked 

 peduncles : sepals much exceeding the stamens and pistils, spreading from tho 

 base, thill, petaloid, marginless : anthers short on long pubescent filaments : outer- 

 most stamens with more or less dilated filaments bearing inane anthers or none, 

 or some converted into "petals," rather petaloid staminodes : styles wholly per- 

 sistent, becoming long plumose carpel-tails : half-woody climbers (but ours low), 

 the shoots of the season from scaly Huds, early fioweriiig: leaves ternately com- 

 puuud. — Atragene, L. (The verticillate appearance of the foliage on the flow- 

 ering shoots, which gives an inappropriate name to one of the species, comes 

 from the pair of leaves from the opposite axils arising close to the main axis.) 



C. verticillaris, DC. Leaves simply 3-foliolate, slender-petioled ; leaflets slender-petiolulate, 

 ovate, mostly acuminate, entire or sparingly dentate : sepals violet, inch or two long, oblong, 

 more or less acute : staminodes little longer tliau the fertile stamens, sometimes all linear 

 and more or less antheriferous, often outermost petaloid and spatulate. — Syst. i. 166; Hook. 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 2 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 10. Atrayene Americana, Sims', Bot. Mag. t. 887 ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 14, t. 1. — Shaded and rocky soil, Hudson Bay to the Winnipeg district, 

 Minnesota, &c., and south to Pennsylvania ; '■^ fl. early spring. 



Var. Columbiana, Guay, n. var. Sepals " blue," ovate-lanceolate or narrow, soon 

 attenuate-acute or acuminate. — C. Columbiana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 11. C. alpina, var. occi- 

 dentalls, forma verticillaris, Kuntze, 1. c. 161. Atragene Columbiana, Nutt. Journ. Acad. 

 Philad. vii. 7. — Rocky Mountains, N. Utah and north to lat. 58°, and west to Brit. 

 Columbia. (Cape Mendocino, lat. 40°, Doiu/las, ace. to Flook., probably a mistake.) 



C. alpina, Mill. Loaves twice ternate with ovate or ovate-lanceolate leaflets short-pitiolu- 

 late and irregularly serrate or incised, or simply 3-foliolate with some or all the leaflets 2-3- 

 parted: staminodes in tlie Old World plant numerous and conspicuous, spatulate, and most 

 of them not at all antheriferous. — Diet. ed. 8, no. 9; Lam. Dict.-ii. 44; DC. Syst. i. 165. 

 Atraqene alpina & A. sibirica, L. Spec. i. 542, 543; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 530, 1951. (Eu., 

 N. Asia.) 



Var. OCcidentalis, Gray. Spatulate and petaloid staminodes few and usually with 

 rudiment of antlier.*, or none, most or all of the dilated filameiit.s linear and more or less 

 antheriferous. — Gr.iy in Powell, Geol. Surv. Rep. Dakota (1880), 531. C. alpina, vox. 

 Ochotensis, Wats. Bot. King Exp. 4. Atragene occidentalis, Hornem. Hort. Hafn. 1813, 520. 

 A. Ochotensis, Gray, PI. Fcndl. 4. A. alpina, Gray, Proc. Acad. I'liilad. 1863, 5«. A. alpina, 



1 Reported from Sheridan Co., Neh., by Swezey, Bull. Torr. Club, xix. 94. 



2 Eastward to Maine and New Brun.swick (ace. to Fowler); also reporteil from Monongalia, \Y. Va., 

 by Millspaugh, Fl. W. Va. 318, and at Steamboat Spring.s, Col., by Miss Fa.stwood, Zoe, ii. 22t>. 



