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parative length of the bracts with the pedicel, ovary, and flower, and in the 
relative length of the stigmas and filaments. 
Collected at the Bush ranch, Sweetwater co., Wyoming, by Aven Welson, 
no. 7102. 
Alsine validus, n. sp.— Plant glabrous, much branched: stems 
four-angled, 12-18™ high: leaves lanceolate, broadest at base, 1-3™ 
long, thick, subcoriaceous, acute, rather rigid, never ciliated at base: 
bracts very small, 1-3™" long, ovoid or oblong, somewhat acute, scari- 
ous: flowers in a usually terminal, many-flowered, compound cyme; 
pedicels and rays subequal, very variable, 2-5™ long; pedicels straight 
and rigid, spreading or horizontal: petals deeply two cleft, a little 
exceeding the sepals: sepals ovoid, with somewhat acute point and 
scarious margins, 2-3" long, 1.5—-2™" wide: capsule dark brown, shin- 
ing, nearly twice the length of the sepals, oval, obtuse: styles 3, 3-4”" 
long, recurved and crested with an abundance of very fine short bristles: 
seed quite smooth. 
The many-flowered compound cyme, stout, thick, wide-spreading pedicels, 
obtuse capsule, and very small bracts readily separate A. validus from A. 
Jongipes, its nearest relative. The latter has a simple few-flowered cyme, — 
filiform, erect pedicels, more or less acute and more elongated capsule, and — 
also much larger bracts. The character of the inflorescence of A. valédus is _ 
much like that of 4. ——— except that the pedicels are straight and stout 
instead of filiform and c 
: ‘It was collected in ee Pentenniat valley, Albany co., Wyoming, by sea 
pe is the only material of itat hand. The type no. is 7726. Savas 
‘. ne, Monaciog of Wyoming, Laramie. 
