108 BOTANICAL GAZETTE, [ May, 
very acute: petals very scantily black dotted, if at all: capsule 
somewhat lobed, ovate, 3 to 5 lines long. —Am. Jour. Sci. I. xlv. 
174; Gray, Genera Il. i. 214, t. 92, Asicsal, 85; Chapm. FI. 41. 
Mountains of North Carolina. 
Tt Western agpae’i plants 3 inches to 2 feet high: capsules 3-lobed, 3 
4 lines long: i PE) Pah yellow, often tinged with purple, with a few black 
dots along the margi 
22. H. formosum HBK. var. Seouleri. From running root- 
a simple or somewhat branching, often with numerous 
mall branchlets, a half to two feet high: leaves ovate-oblong, 
ae, more or less clasping, about an inch long, half inch or 
more wide (those of the branchlets much smaller and often taper- 
ing at base), usually black dotted along the margin of the under 
surface, veiny: flowers half to an inch in diameter, in loose 
corymbs : sepals lanceolate to ovate, obtuse or acute: styles 
mostly erect. 
H. Scouleri Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. i. 111; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 160; and of 
all authors. 
Throughout all our western mountain systems, and extending into British 
Columbia 
Se aedingly variable. The species is Mexican, and differs from our va- 
riety only in its narrower and acuminate sepals. It is really questionable 
whether our forms deserve to rank even as a variety, as there are found among 
them sepals which are almost indistinguishable from those of H. formosum. 
23. H. coneinnum Bento. Somewhat shrubby and branching 
at base, 3 to 18 inches high: leaves linear to oblong, not clasp- 
ing, acon folded, half to over an inch long, 1 to 4 lines wide, 
acute: flowers over an inch in dia meter, few, in rather close clus- 
ters at the summit of the stem, with black Tires as well as dots: 
sepals ovate, mucronate-acute, or very acuminate, repent ge the 
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capsule.—PI. Hartw. 300; Brewer & Watson, Bot. Calif. 
H. bracteatum Kellogg, Proc. Calif. A 
California. First collected by Har it, in a “Sacramento Valley.” 
23. Stamens 5 to 20, mostly in 3 clusters: styles 3 (sometimes 2), short, 
ressoae stigmas capitate : capsules ovate ate conical, one-celled; seeds yellow, 
or less striate and pitted: small and slender annuals, with very small 
howets, Pee petals shorter than the Can? 
* Procumbent or ascending, or forming dense mats, diffusel sla 
leaves rather broad, obtuse, clasping: capsule a line or two lon ag 
