40 BOTAI^T. 



rey's 37 from near Donner Pass, appear to be the same — varying in the degree 

 of pubescence, leafiness of the stem, and amount of fasciculation, covering both 

 nardifolia, Ledeb., and lychnidea, Bieb. Wahsatch Mountains ; 6,000 feet 

 altitude ; August. First collected by Richardson on the Arctic Coast. (166.) 



Aeenaeia FENDiEEi, Gray. Plant. FendL, p. 13. Stems numerous from 

 a perennial caudex, simple, glabrous, imbricately many-leaved at base ; leaves 

 long, erect, setaceous, somewhat flattened, scabrous-serrulate, glabrous ; cymes 

 strict, few-flowered, and with the sepals glandular-pubescent ; pedicels slen- 

 der ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate-acuminate, green, with a broad scari- 

 ous margin, 3-nerved, nearly equaling the obovate petals ; styles exserted; 

 capsule about equaling the calyx, 6-valved ; seeds obliquely obovate, with a 

 minute uncinate micropyle, papillose-scabrous ; embryo horseshoe-shaped. 

 Var. GLABEESCENS. Nearly glabrous throughout ; the sepals shorter, broadly- 

 ovate, acute ; leaves short. It is nearly 70 Hall & Harbour. Found in the 

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

 May-July. The species has been collected in Northern Arizona, New Mex- 

 ico, and Colorado. (167.) 



Var. SUBCONGESTA. Grlabrous throughout ;• flowers more or less clustered 

 upon short pedicels, or the lateral ones sessile ; bracts broad and scarious ; 

 petals but little exceeding the ovate acuminate scarious sepals. — ^A low (6' 

 high) nearly subalpine form, from the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 

 7-9,000 feet altitude ; July. Collected also by Burke in Southern Idaho, 

 and specimens gathered by Newberry in Northern Arizona and by Anderson 

 near Carson City approach it nearly. It is in several respects intermediate 

 between congesta mdformosa, but seems more closely allied, through the last 

 variety, with the true A. Fendleri. (168.) 



Aeenaeia pungens, Nutt. Casspitose, minutely glandular-pubescent; 

 leaves rigid, subulate, canaliculate, pungent, 3-nerved ; sepals lanceolate, ob- 

 scurely 3-nerved, as long as the oblong-ovate petals.— Stems 2-4' high, usually 

 forming crowded tufts ; leaves 3-6" long. Collected by Nuttall in the Rocky 

 Mountains, in lat. 41°, and by Brewer and Bolander in California. Found 

 in the West and East Humboldt Mountains, and in Diamond Valley, Nevada; 

 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (169.) 



Aeenaeia aculeata. Csespitose, glabrous ; leaves fascicled at the ex- 

 tremities of numerous short mostly barren shoots, glaucous, rigid, subulate, 

 aculeate; stems nearly naked, somewhat scabrous above; flowers few, (6-8,) on 



