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March 30, 191 2 



MUHLENBERGIA 



ALPINE PLANTS— \'I I. 

 By p. Beveridge Kennedy 



Little Elephant's Head {Elephaniella atiolens {CiX7i\) Heller 

 Gray first described this species in 1867 from plants col- 

 lected in the swamps of the high Sierra Nevada mountains by 

 Brewer, Torrey, Bolander, and Bridges, giving it the name Ped- 

 icularis attolois. Rydberg, in his P'lora of Montana, recognized 

 the striking difference in the appearance of the flowers of these 

 plants when compared with the louseworts or trne Pedicnlaris. 

 He proposed the very appropriate name Elephatitella^ "in allu- 

 sion to the form of the corolla, which strikingly resembles the 



Figfure 2. Elephantella attolens (Gray) Heller 

 head of an elephant, the produced beak of the galea forming the 

 trunk, the lateral lobes of the lip the ears, and the stigma the 



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