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subunguiculate ganar capsules purple, dive reent.—Hall & Harbour, 
93. South and 
Park, Porter. Near Long’s Pea Weston’s Pass, — 
AXIFRAGA owe nee a; Ho pk Very canaidies pubescent; 
S lea : 
all radical, ovate or oblong-obovate, very obtuse, entire or rslightly: sinu sta 
crenate; scape elongated, 1°-3° high, paniculate at the apex, rather 
narrow or sometimes expanded, bracteate; petals obovate, twice the 
length of the glabrous, spreading, or at length reflexed, round-ovate, 
obtuse prierren of the calyx; stamens short, sty les free.—Sierra Madre 
Range, at 11,000 feet altitude, Coul 
ele RAGA JAMESII, Torr. Glandular etienreern th — 2/-6! 
high from a thick caudex, more or less leafy, 5-10-flowered ; radical 
leaves on rather long petioles, satioinn: somes Rader ti erenately- 
toothed or lobed; cauline ~_ few, the uppermost bract- -like, ‘cuneiform; 
raceme compot nd; flowers large; calyx-tul cohering with 
the base of the. ovary, the sietunant triango lar- ov ate, rather acute, about 
as long as the slender claw or the o orbicular, pr urple petals; stamens 10. 
—Hall & Harbour, 203. In clefts of the rocks in Gianna Canton, Porter. 
Pike’s Peak, Canby. 
ELLIMA! PARVIFLORA, Hook. (ithophragma, Nutt.) Root more or 
less gr —— stems 6/—15/ high, scabrous hirsute, isa 1-2 ternately- 
divided o obe eaves; “segments 3-cleft, 4-8 flowered, occasionally 
bulb- sey leaves 4/-2’ in diameter; ‘pedicels Onn erect, usually 
shorter than the calyx, which is ani elongating i in fruit and densely 
glandular-hirsute; petals white, much exserted, deeply 5-cleft, projecting 
1-3” beyond the calyx; ovary adnate above the middle ; seeds oblong, 
roinciely roughened. sce & cities cg: 
MITELLA PENTANDRA, Hook. Leaves all radical, cordate, slightly 
] sted; crenately-serr, ar ‘scape sender, he 14° high, naked; calyx cam- 
panulate with spreading lobes, adherent to the middle of the ovary; 
petals white, linear or filiform, pent eae eft, longer than the calyx; 
stamens 5, with very short filaments, alternate with the petals; stigma 
entire; capsule opening prematurely.—Hall & Harbour, 208; Parry. 
dierra site pein i at “ oom feet altitude, mone t; 
CH ENIUM ALTERNIFOLIUM, L. Flow. ing stems erect; leaves 
alternate, eh RE doubly crenate or commen lobed ; "flowers 
corymbose.—Hall & Harbour, 576 
sha EUCHERA BRACTEATA, Ser eringe. Small and nearly einkeenk or 
gg ern ig puberulent; scapes numerous from a thick, Beapee caudex, 
leafless or bra ected; radical eaves racers peer date, about 1 in 
dia be oothed, Fd teeth 
setaceously mucronate; flowers crowded in “ grains somewhat com- 
pound raceme 1’ to 14’ long; calyx campanalate, oblong, almost 5-cleft 
to the middle, lobes spatulate-oblong; petals attenuate, acute, scareely 
broader than the filaments; styles an nd stamens at length exserted; 
. ee = Calyx samen dilated, prolonged be — 
adherent to to it at base, f tantnee or eleft, valvate. or 5, pred or ‘vided, inse! 
calyx Ww he 10 stnall, i nelud: uded stamens. 
pete eeken, writh | 2-3 oa 1 ovuled placente; stvies2 3a wpe 
wholly or half inferior, sh aa oh 2-3-valved, many-see 
or ore y oe herbs with petioled, rounded-cordate, lobed leaves 
