48 [341] Plants of the Rocky Mountains—Supplement IV. 
Parry has an alpine form (No. 287), and a loose, evolute form with longer 
and narrower leaves (No. 284); in these the tube of the corolla is usually 
pilose inside near the middle; but it is not so in Torrey’s original speci- 
mens of M. alpina, nor in Hooker’s M. Drummondii. “ In the lattér, and 
in Parry’s specimens, as in all of the various other species I have exam- 
ined, the stamens are inserted in the throat of the corolla. In the flowers 
GAY 
§ 4. Filamenta antheris sublongiora et equilata: corolle limbo lobato: 
achenia echinata! 
10. M. rtvunaris, DC. I. elliptica, Ledeb. ex Regel & Tiling, Fl. 
Ajan. N.E. Siberia and Kamtschatka. Corolla with the tube hairy 
within towards the base: plice at the throat conspicuous. I hay only 
a specimen from Tiling’s Ajan collection. In this the fruit is conspicu- 
ously echinate with soft prickles—a remarkable peculiarity, which is not 
noticed in Regel’s account of this collection. 
*,.* Dr. Hooker, in his Arctic Essay, received long since the above 
was written, adopting Sir William’s suggestion, refers the high arctic 
M. Drummondiit (Li um Drummondii) to our M. Virginica. 
Although Lehmann describes the corolla “ ‘fauce notata protuberantiis 
quinque, I found no appendages in an ori 
just as Dr. Hooker notes. But I also found them obsolete in specimens . 
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