BOTANICAL GAZETTE. III 
2 inches, compact, cylindrical; scale thin, pale or brownish, 
obtuse, woolly ; capsule ovate-conical, glabrous, greenish or 
_tufescent; pedicel pubescent, 2 to 3 times the length of the 
nectary ; style medium, stigmas small, erect, entire. ~ ae 
Var. sericea. Young leaves densely white tomentose, 
_ €ntire. 
Var. denudata. Young leaves smooth or nearly so, more 
distinctly serrulate. ae 
| Var. puberula. Capsule thinly puberulous. Transition to sae 
_S. Californica. ia 
Ipine bogs, Eagle Creek mountains near Snake river, in great 
abundance, also in the Blue mountains, where it appears to be limited to — 
asmall disirict, Cusick, Cascade Mts., Washington Territory, alt. 6,400 ft., 
Tweedy. Var. sericea, moraines near the snow line on the north side oe 
Mt. Hood, Howell, Henderson. Var. denudata, Eagle creek meadows, 
Cusick; Cascade Mts., Washington Territory, Tweedy. . a 
. _ tn its glabrous rufescent capsules, entire style and short erect entire 
stigmas, and in its large serrulate stipules this species obviously resem- 
bles S. cordata; while on the other hand the whole habit of the plant, the 
Ba broad softly tomentose subentire leaves, the stout leafy peduncles and — 
a subsessile capsules are like S. glauca. 
: _ 8. conjuncta, n, sp. Leaves of the flowering branches el- | 
___ hiptic or obovate, subacute, 1 to 1}.in. long; leaves of the ster-_ 
le branches ample, 2 to in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide, ovate- 
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Ty, Parry, Howell, Suksdorf, Henderson; Cascade Mts,, alt. 5,500 i. 
Bald mountain, §. W. Montana, alt. 7-8,000 ft., Watson ; summit 
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