68 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY : 
Wyoming, Telephone mines, Ig00, Aven Nelson, no. 7833; — 
summit of mountains, west of North park, 1899, G. £. Osterhout. 
Laramiensis, n. sp.—Stems 3~-4°" long, branching 
freely; stems and branches erect, stout, glabrous; the branches arising | 
from the axils of the leaves: persistent’radical leaves few, linear, 5-10 : 
wide; cauline leaves linear, forming a short turgid sheath at the bast, 
a little narrower than the radical leaves; both radical and cauline 
strongly divaricate (nearly at right angles to the stem); the involuctl 
leaves narrow (2-3™™ wide), often equaling the cauline: umbels ses 
sile, terminating stems and branches: flowers very numerous in each 
umbel (often 50), hanging down in age: pedicels long (2.5-35 } 
pedicels and sepals remarkably glandular- -pubescent: sepals lineat | 
oblong, acute, r0o—12™" long: petals dark blue, broad, obtuse, about 
double the length of the sepals: filament once or twice sharply 
on itself and immersed in the copious wool arising from its lowest 
_ ment: ovary ribbed with rows of glandular hairs. 
ee Laramiensis i is related to 7. scopulorum, but differs from it in the col 
af bytes (7. Laramiensis — much ses in stoutness, in the si 
>. 7455. 
Boos ies = fleshy: roto 
Sone aed rigid, half as long bi 
scape, 3-6" wide: flowers in bud dark blue, f 
dicel 1-10"" long: perianth segments prom 
ot crested, simple, outer ones 4—6™ long, aD 
er a littl shorter and about 8™™ wide : tube abo’ 
18™™ long, exceeding the filaments 
ze late-acuminate always i 
feed ts the Wasatch Tertiary cage 
from which h it differs in size, being much 
muc stouter i in ——— * its size, in 
