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but with more naked stems, 1-2° high; calyx 6" long, marked with 10, 

 broad green lines, shorter than the mature capsule; petals apparently white. 

 Havallah Kange and the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 6-9,000 

 feet altitude ; June-August. (155.) 



Ceeastium nutans, Raf. From Hudson's Bay and Canada south to North 

 Carohna, and west to the Pacific. The only reported localities west of the 

 Mississippi are the Santa Fd Mountains, (Fendler,) and the headwaters of the 

 Missouri, (Stevens.) Collected by Anderson near Carson City ; found in the 

 Diamond Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; 



June, July. (156.) 



Ceeastium vulgatum, L., Var. Behringianum, Gray. Flowers large, 

 petals and capsule half longer than the calyx, shorter than the pedicels ; stems 

 few (2-4)-flowered. Kotzebue Sound, and Rocky Mountains of Colorado. 

 Uinta Mountains, Utah; 10,000 feet altitude ; August. (157.) 



Ceeastium aevense, L. Canada to Georgia, and west to Colorado and 

 Oregon. In the Uinta Mountains ; 8,000 feet altitude ; July. (158.) 



Stellaeia Jamesii, Torr. Viscidly pubescent ; leaves lanceolate, shghtly 

 falcate, closely sessile ; cyme divaricate ; petals 2-lobed, twice longer than 

 the oblong acute sepals.— Stems weak, 1-2° high ; leaves usually 2' or less 

 in length; capsule equaling the calyx, deeply valved. Rocky Mountains, 

 Colorado ; Sandia Mountains, New Mexico ; California, (Brewer.) Toyabe 

 and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6-9,000 feet 

 altitude; May-August. (159.) 



Stellaeia longipes, Groldie. Maine- to Wisconsin, north to Arctic 

 America, and west to Colorado, Oregon, and California. In the Toyabe 

 Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas; 6-8,000 feet alti- 

 tude ; June, July. (160.) 



Stellaeia boeealis, Big. With the same range as the last. Found in 

 the Uinta Mountains ; 8,000 feet altitude ; August. (161.) 



Stellaeia ceassifolia, Ehrh. Kentucky "and northward;" California, 

 (4718 Bolander ;) Behring Strait. Found in the East Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada, near Unionville ; 5,000 feet altitude ; June. (162.) 



Stellaeia umbellata, Turcz. Glabrous ; stem weak ; leaves ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate; peduncles axillary and terminal, divaricate, filiform and elon- 

 gated, with scarious bracts; petals wanting; sepals short, (1" long,) ovate, 

 acute, nerveless or 1-nerved, (rarely 3-nerved ;) capsule deeply valved, twice 



