stamens 3, together with the 3-lobed 
Te . each with the midrib _— eee _ the 
294 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. 
154. LinNAEA BOREALIS L. Sp. Pl. 631. 1753.—The beautiful 
twin-flower is found throughout the northern hemisphere at high 
latitudes and in the mountains at subalpine elevations. 
Type range: “in oc Sibiriae, Helvetiae, Canadae sylvis antiquis, 
muscosis, sterilibus, umbrosis. 
VALERIANACEAE. 
155. VALERIANA CAPITATA Pall. Link. Jahrb. 1: 66. Ledeb. 
Ic. Fl. Ross. g/. 346.— Stems simple, 18-30™ high: lowest stem 
leaves suborbicular, on broad connate-clasping petioles as long 
as the blade, together 1-2 long; second pair of leaves — 
unequally and broadly ovate, 2.5°™ long, on similar petioles 5™* 
long, obscurely denticulate; third pair ovate-acuminate, with 
narrow lanceolate-acuminate lobes at the sessile base, these lobes: : 
one-fifth the length of the main division; nodes hirsute: inflo- 
rescence capitate-glomerate ; peduncles long, s sometimes wah 
slender branches; involucral leaves of narrowly linear to alee? e 
filiform divisions; bracts of the cyme narrowly linear-subulate: 
_ corolla white tinged with rose, funnelform, 6-7" ong. oe = : 
broader than the other three, tube slightly saccate at bast 
styles exserted: akenes 
_ ovate, 3™" long, 1-nerved on one side, 3-nerved on the other. : 
Type locality: “ mont. sabinensibus.” 
COMPOSITAE. 
156. Acwittea Mitieroiium L. Sp. Pl. 899- 
erect, 1-3 high, simple or branched above: leaves bi 
with the segments pinnately-parted into fi 
lanceolate in outline, 4—9™ long, 5—10™ wide, 
Short petioles dilated at base, the upper sessile : | 
ae white-villous, most densely so at the leaf axils: heads ! Oo 
compound cyme, often with later branches below "© 
cluster; bracts of the involucre in 3 series, in pee 
the ‘ecue | inner ones narrower and longer than the 
ses 
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