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232 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Sept., 
3. Capsule obtuse, thin, cylindraceous, or suburceolate, 
surpassing the calyx, truncately dehiscent by circum- 
scission of the apex: leaves obovate. D. HENDERSONI. 
B. Anthers seemingly sessile, the very short and distinct filaments being 
inserted below the orifice of the corolla and included in its throat!: leaves ovate 
or obovate, often abruptly contracted into the margined petiole. D. rRIGIDUM. 
. D. Meanvta L., the original species, and the only one of 
the Atlantic region, has an acute capsule, of coriaceo-crustaceous 
texture ; the narrow and obtusely acute apex, of slightly different 
color from the rest, but of same texture, opens into five dentiform 
valves, which hardly ever dehisce further down. There are plen- 
tiful Rocky Mountain specimens (such as are represented by the 
D. integrifolium Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3622, from the north, and by 
Fendler’s no. 549 from New Mexico) which probably go with 
this; but fruit is wanting. 
leaves of which are said to be at least a foot long, and the scapes 
and peduncles are correspondingly grandiose. But it is added 
Bongard, and var. vegetius of Ledebour FI. Ross. from Sitka, 
As at present received the species ranges from Sitka to the Guad- 
alupe Islands off Lower California, ee 
3. D. ELLipTr Nutt. ex Durand in Jour. Acad. Philad., 
ser. 2, iii. 94. D. Meadia, var. brevifolium Gray, Syn. FI. ii. 57. 
D. integrifolium Benth. F]. Hartw. t.322, This is rather common 
in California, from San Diego county, and San Bernardino, ap- 
1s, 
89) excellent obeervestiougis Reese sat ee amen (in Jour, Lend, Phila ser, 2 
and its near allies: they are certainly monadelphous into a rin 
1 hort tube in the flower- 
bud and in anthesis in all te except D. frigidum, separating only as the gravid 
