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or scarcely at all so, commonly with two yellowish spots below the middle ; 

 the two lower oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate; all contracted at 

 the base into conspicuous, mostly narrow claws. Hairs generally elongate ; 

 glands globose, whitish to purple. Leaves basal, crowded, 1.5-10 cm., long, 

 oblanceolate to spatulate or cuneate, more or less pubescent, sometimes 

 copiously so — ^to glabrous or nearly so; more or less coarsely serrate- 

 dentate above the middle, or incised-toothed, especially towards the apex and 

 above the middle, or remotely serrate-dentate, the teeth elongate, narrow; 

 margins ciliate. Scapes 3-4.5 cm. high, solitary or clustered, erect or assur- 

 gent, more or less glandular pubescent, branching at the top or from near 

 the base, often profusely; branches ascending or spreading. Inflorescence 

 paniculate-cymose, the flowers few to numerous, sometimes all but the 

 terminal replaced by bulbils. Bracts lanceolate to oblanceolate, the upper 

 small, the lower foliaceous with a few to several coarse apical teeth ; leaf- 

 like in some forms. 



A polymorphic species of wide range displaying considerable variation 

 in vegetative characters. The different forms, however, do not appear to be 

 of sufficient stability to warrant according them specific rank (Plate XIX). 



Distribution. — Islands of Bering Sea, and Alaska to Montana, Idaho, and Oregon, 

 Specimens examined: 



Alaska: summit of high mountains near Yes Bay, August 21, 1890, Thomas 

 Howell, No. 1621 (UMH) ; Windham Bay, lune 11, 1905, /. D. Culbertson; Kodiak, 

 July 3, 1898, JVm. Trelease, Harriman Alaska expedition. 



British Columbia: Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, June 4, 1889, John Macoun 

 (USNH 219860) ; Moresby Island, July 9, 1900, Wilfred H. Osgood (USNH 620999) ; 

 Glacier, alt. 5,800 ft., July 20, 1901, C. O. Rosendahl, No. 139 (UMH) ; Avalanche 

 Mountain, Glacier, August 21, 1902, C. O. Rosendahl, No. 968 (UMH) ; Asulkan Pass, 

 alt. 8,000 ft., August 17, 1904, F. H. Walker, No. 493 (UMH) ; woods above Revel- 

 stoke, alt. 4,000 ft., July 10, 1905, Chas. H. Sham, No. 897 (UMH) ; Cowichan-Alberni 

 Trail, summit of pass, Vancouver Island, alt. 3,000 ft., June 27, 1906, C. O. Rosendahl, 

 No. 1735 (UMH) ; along the trail above Alberni, Vancouver Island, June 30, 1906, 

 C. O. Rosendahl et al.. No. 1623 (UMH) ; summit of Mt. Edinburgh, Vancouver 

 Island, July 30, 1906, C. O. Rosendahl, No. 1735 (UMH) ; Fish Creek Valley, alt. 

 5,500 ft., August, 1906, F. K. Butters and E. W. D. Holway, No. 240; Mt. Edinburgh, 

 Vancouver Island, alt 2,000 ft., June 7, 1907, C. O. Rosendahl and F. K. Butters 

 (UMH) ; rocky ledge, Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, June 15, 1907, C. O. Rosen^ 

 dahl, No. 1809 (UMH) ; Glacier, alt. 4,100 ft., July 28, 1907, F. K. Butters and 

 E. W. D. Hohvay (UMH) ; snow sheds. Glacier, alt. 4,200 ft., August 24, 1907, F. K. 

 Butters and E. W. D. Holway (UMH) ; Mt. Abbott, Glacier, alt. 7,000 ft., July 22, 

 1908, F. K. Butters and E. W. D. Holway (UMH) ; Glacier, H. C. Cowles, No. 167 

 (MBG 744924); Queen Charlotte Islands (MBG 71701), as .S. Newcombei; Selkirks, 

 C. H. Shaw, No. 451. 



Washington : Skagit Pass, Cascade Mountains, August 24, 1892, Lake and Hull, 

 No. 468 (UMH) ; Stevens Pass, alt. 4,000-6,000 ft., August, 1893, /. H. Sandberg and 

 /. B. Leiberg, No. 1836 (UMH) ; dry rocky places, Goat Mountains, July 12, 1895, 



