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26 [252] Enumeration of Plants of the “Naas Mountains. 
tito, lobis aaicee shi guceti capitato. rowing in set of soaks 
on the dividing ridge, at the elevation of 10,000 feet. Very different 
obtuse nly two stamens seat ‘chub, as in other species, are almost 
rinterar ous. 
256. Chionophila Jamesii, Benth. “On bare or grassy oe of the 
snowy range, July, Flowers pale cream-color.” A most interesting re- 
e only known original specimen, and a very scanty one, is in 
ookerian herbarium, to which it was contributed by Dr. Torrey, 
mixed with Penistemon Jamesii, and no s cimen is extant in his own 
summit, with road and short nearly equal teeth, considerably ampliate, 
thin, membra us, Or even scarious. Corolla tubular, slightly dilated 
upwards, patie pire the length of the calya, and w 
the lower lip very nal specimen must be in 
poor i Ehadition if this beard was overlooked. Sterile filament much 
smaller and shorter than the others, smooth. Stigma small, obtuse and 
entire. Radical leaves in the larger specimens 2 or 3 inches long, lance- 
olate-spatulate. Scape 2 to 4 inches high, puberulent. Flowers. solitary 
in pe axils of the small floral leaves, on very short and ebracteolaie 
cels. 
257, Vide after 261, 262. 
258. Pentstemon acuminatus, Dougl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1285, var. P. 
~ mitidus, Dougl., Benth. 2. Fend ndleri, Gray in Pacif. R.R. Rep., 2, p- 168, 
t. 
or bright blue flowers.” Bentham describes P. acumina 
amento sterili filiformi glabro.”” But Lindley, in Bot. Reg., where the 
species'was published, says “ apice leviter pilosum, aduneum ;” and his 
* ie represents a state of what I must consider the 
Re 
5. A wide-spread, variable species, with pale glaucous leaves and palish 
fil- 
pol us: 
species one form of which I published as P. Fendleri, and which is cer- 
tinly P. nitidus, 
264, A nar ieoliawsd oe of the foregoing, clearly of the same 
species ; “from plains of Denver, with numerous b right. ble | 
sind Aas BOGE Niclas Jonreo, ” Similar specimens from 
