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longer than the calyx ; seeds smooth.— Stem 6-1° high. The character is 

 drawn from Colorado and Utah specimens. 8. gracilis, Rich., and S. borealis, 

 var. r., Hook., which are referred by Planchon to this species, have 2-parted 

 petals, longer than the sepals. From Hudson's Bay to the Eocky Mountains, 

 lat. 52-62°, and in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Found in the East 

 Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 9-10,000 

 feet altitude ; July, August. (163.) 



Stellaria KiNGii. Grlabrous below, glandular-pubescent above ; stems 

 strict, erect, numerous, from a somewhat woody base ; leaves linear-setaceous, 

 rigid, shorter than the internodes, mucronate, ciliate ; petals deeply bifid, 

 scarcely longer than the acute pubescent scarious-margined 1-nerved sepals ; 

 bracts ovate-acute, scarious; capsules becoming half longer than the (IJ" long) 

 calyx, and dehiscing with 6 nearly equal teeth. — Stems 3-4' high, somewhat 

 csespitose. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 9,000 feet altitude ; July. 

 Plate VI. Fig. 1. Stems ; natural size. Fig. 2. A node and leaves. 

 Fig. 3. A flower, laid open; both enlarged four diameters. (164.) 



Aeenaeia congesta, Nutt. Csespitose, glabrous; leaves long, linear-subu- 

 late, pungent ; flowers in roundish compact heads, with crowded membra- 

 nous bracts; sepals ovate, acute, membranous, obscurely 3-nerved, about 

 half the length of the oblong petals ; capsule equaling the calyx ; seeds 

 smooth. — Stem 6'-l° high, simple. Bear River Valley, (Nuttall;) Wind River 

 Mountains, "Wyoming, (Fremont ;) Oregon, (Spalding.) Found in the Uinta 

 Mountains, Utah; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July. (165.) 



Aeenakia foemosa, Fisch. {A. -nardifolia, Ledeb.) " Leaves linear-seta- 

 ceous, scabrous-ciliate ; stems erect, simple, and with the peduncles viscidly 

 pilose ; panicle trichotomous, few-flowered; sepals thick, obtuse, the inner ones 

 very broad and pilose-glandular, half shorter than the obovate petals." — ^The 

 present specimens are nearly glabrous, with the stems rather stout and strict, 

 (5-10' high,) from a woody caudex showing 20 annual rings ; leaves 1-2' 

 long, somewhat scabrous on the margin, lower ones rarely fascicled, mucro- 

 nate, and the mucro frequently curved ; corymbs rather crowded ; the short 

 peduncles and ovate abruptly acute sepals glandular-pubescent ; petals twice 

 longer and the capsule becoming half (or frequently twice) longer than the 

 calyx ; uppermost bracts scabrous. Specimens in Herb. Gray of Tolmie from 

 Mount Ranier, Palmer's 355 from Fort Whipple, Arizona, Lyall's from the 

 Cascade Mountains, from the Kootanie and the Rocky Mountains, and Tor- 



