286 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
as the subulate divisions of the calyx: tube and divisions of the 
latter cinereous with white hairs: capsule clavate, 3™ long. 
Type range: “in alpibus Lapponicis.” 
POLEMONIACEAE. 
138. PoLEMonruM acuTIFLoRUM Willd. ex Schult. Syst. 
4:792. DC. Prodr. 9: 318.—Stems erect from creeping scaly 
rootstocks, 2-4™ high, glabrous except for the viscid pubescence 
of the inflorescence: leaves few, those from the root somewhat — 
larger than the cauline leaves; leaflets 9-24, opposite or alter- 
nate, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, mucronate, 3-1 5™™ long, decur- 
rent on the winged rachis; petioles generally shorter than the 
blades, winged, dilated and sheathing at base, the whole leaf 
5-Io™ long; stem leaves few and scattered, similar to the 
radical leaves but smaller, with the petiole woolly-ciliate, ss a 
cially at base: flowers in a narrow thyrsus or panicle with the 
peduncles 6™™ to 6™ long; bracts usually trifoliate with linear 
divisions, sessile and clasping ; bractlets lanceolate or scale-like, 
sometimes wanting: calyx campanulate, with the divisions on 
half the entire length, in flower 4™", becoming pl ne 
_ acute or obtuse, with margin crisped or entire, cal) 0" 
: ges wide; tube with a hairy ring 3a™ from its bast aba 
_ tufted at the base of the filaments: filaments glabrata 
_ 8™™ long, one-third shorter than the corolla: style ore : 
longer: capsule as long as or sometimes longer than - a 
of the calyx: seeds brown, linear-oblong, 4™™ !0n8 ae 
of the seed chestnut-brown with yellow-brow™ wings @ @ 
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_ Type locality: “in Americae borealis plaga occidentali (Pallas) - 
In Ledebour F/ora Rossica 3: 84 this is given as a variety of P. 
___L. It was collected by Chamisso at Unalashka. Insula Sanctt 
ae Fala Espenbergii. Sinus Eschscholzii. Insula —— 
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