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short, herbaceous, procumbent ; leaves reniform-cordate, obhque at the base, 

 crenate; peduncles axillary, solitary, 1 -flowered; petals oblique, pubescent 

 externally, yellow ; carpels 8-10, pointless. — New Mexico to Sonora, Cali- 

 fornia, and Oregon. In Salt Lake Valley ; June-October. (201.) 



LINACEiE. 



LiNUM PEEENNE, L. Perennial, glabrous ; leaves scattered, linear, acute ; 

 flowers nearly opposite the leaves and terminal ; peduncles becoming elon- 

 gated and nodding in fruit; sepals oval, with membranous margins, shorter 

 than the globose capsule ; petals free, blue, retuse, 3-4 times exceeding the 

 calyx ; styles 5.; capsule 5-celled, with bearded dissepiments. — Stems ^-3° 

 high; flowers large. From Canada, west to the Pacific and north to the 

 Arctic Sea, and west of the Mississippi from Arkansas to Northern Mexico 

 and California. Frequent in Nevada and Utah ; 5-10,000 feet altitude ; 

 May-September. (202.) 



LiNUM (Linastkum) Kingii. Perennial, glabrous; stems numerous, 

 ascending, panicled above ; leaves alternate, linear or narrowly oblong, 

 obtuse ; glandular stipules none ; flowers yellow, on pedicels longer than the 

 calyx ; sepals ovate, acute, glandular-margined ; petals free ; filaments dilated 

 at base ; styles 5, free, equaling or a little exceeding the stamens ; capsule 

 globose, cuspidate, 10-valved, somewhat longer than the calyx. — Stem 4'-l° 

 high, shrubby at base, the caudex sometimes showing 1 or more annual rings; 

 flowers showy, with petals 5" long ; capsules 1^" in diameter. In the Uinta 

 and Wahsatch Mountains ; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (203.) 



GEEANIACE^. 



Geranium Richaedsonii, Fisch. & Mey. {G. alhiflorum, Hook.) Very 

 near G. maculatum, L., from which it is distinguished by the much deeper 

 divisions of the style, (2-3" long,) the pilose filaments, and the short dense 

 (rarely pilose) pubescence, which is somewhat glandular above. — Stems 2° 

 high, numerous ; flowers of various shades of purple, or white. The white- 

 flowered specimens are often more or less pilose, but show no other diflTer- 

 ence. G. Fremontii is of less size, with smaller leaves, which are more 

 truncate at base and less deeply and less sharply divided. In the Rocky 

 Mountains from New Mexico to the Saskatchewan ; also collected by Brewer 

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