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branching above the middle, the branches spreading; leaves thin, oblanceo- 

 late-elliptic, glabrous or scantily pubescent, coarsely serrate-dentate above 

 the middle, cuneately contracted below into a broad or narrow base , 6 cm. 

 and less. 



Distribution. — Alaska westward to Kodiak Island. 



Specimens examined : 



Alaska: Windham Bay, June 11, 1905, C. F. Baker, No. 4921, /, D, Culhertson 

 (USNH 422334) Type; on rocky bluflFs, shores of Behm Canal, 1894, M. W. Gorman 

 (UMH) ; Kodiak, July 3, 1899, Wm. Trelease, No. 4046 (MBG 8404S). 



Also the following peculiar form based on a single specimen : 

 Var. cuneata var. riov. Scapus 17 cm. altiis, foliis ad basim latam 

 cuneato-contractis grosse serrato-dentatis, inflorescentiae ramis flores mag- 

 nos paucos atque bulbillos paucos gerentibus, fructibus crassis. 



Leaves with elongated broad, flat, cuneate bases, slightly expanded above 

 into a short coarsely serrate-dentate, few-toothed blade; pale green, thinly 

 pubescent, margins ciliate, apex acute. Scape about 17 cm. high, stout, 

 branching into a few-flowered stout cymose inflorescence at the top. Bulb- 

 lets very few, flowers large, fruit stout, brownish. Filaments stout, rigid, 

 light-colored against the brown follicles. 



Specimens examined : 



Moresby Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, July 2, 1900, W. H. Osgood (USNH 

 620099). 



The following specimens are characterized by possessing elongated nar- 

 row leaves and a loose spreading inflorescence of slender branches. 



Var. diffusa var. nov. Scapus 15-22 cm. altus, laxe pubescens supra 

 medium paniculato-cymose diffuse ramosus, foliis ad 9 cm. longis glabris 

 oblanceolatis grosse serrato-dentatis, floribus magnis, bulbillis paucis vel 

 nullis. 



Leaves 9 cm. and less, narrow, glabrous, oblanceolate, acute, coarsely 

 serrate-dentate, the teeth few and remote, scapes 15-22 cm., solitary or 

 several together, assurgent, sparsely pubescent, diffusely branched above 

 the middle or from below the middle, the branches slender, spreading. 

 Inflorescence paniculate-cymose, open. Flowers rather few, large, with or 

 without bulblets. 



Specimens examined: 



Alaska: summit of high mountains near Yes Bay, August 21, 1895, Thos. Howell, 

 No. 1621 (UMH, MBG 84021). 



The Minnesota sheet contains one small specimen, among two others, 

 which has small leaves of the usual ferruginea type. One of the speci- 

 mens, from the Missouri Botanical Gardens, possesses what appears to be 

 bulblets. 



