96 BOTAldt. 



Drammond in the Rocky Mountains, latitude 46-56°. Not rare in the 

 "Wahsatch; 5-9,000 feet altitude; May-July. (365.) 



Heucheea eubescens, Torr. Stansh. Rep., p. 388, t. 5. Scape 

 usually naked, glabrous or somewhat scabrous ; leaves nearly glabrous, sub- 

 orbicular, cordate at base, slightly lobed, crenate-dentate, the teeth setosely 

 mucronate or obtuse, ciliate; panicle narrow and loosely many-flowered ; bracts 

 linear, often toothed, shorter than the pedicels; calyx campanulate or some- 

 what turbinate, pubescent, more or less colored, the equal segments oblong 

 and obtuse, erect, shorter than the linear petals ; stamens and styles exserted. 

 — Scapes 8-15' high, with rarely 1-2 small ovate leaflets; leaves 1-2' broad; 

 flowers 2-3" in length, the calyx varying somewhat in shape, and the segments 

 more or less rose-colored or white; the whole panicle often somewhat reddish. 

 It differs from H. sanguinea, Eng., in the exserted stamens, style, and petals. 

 First collected on Stansbury Island in Salt Lake ; afterwards in New Mexico 

 and California. Found in the East and West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, 

 and in the Wahsatch ; 5-9,000 feet altitude ; May-July. (366.) 



Heucheka cyhndbica, Dougl. Scape elongated, naked, very villous 

 below or hirsute with fulvous hairs, as also the petioles and veins of the leaves 

 beneath; leaves roundish-cordate, glabrous above, 5-7-lobed, lobes obtuse, 

 mucronate-crenate ; panicle spicate, cylindrical ; bracts scarious, laciniate- 

 fimbriate ; calyx campanulate, with erect somewhat unequal lobes ; petals 

 minute or none ; filaments and styles very short, subulate, included. — Scape 

 2-3°high ; leaves small. On stream-banks and hillsides, Oregon. Var. alpina. 

 Low, 6-10' in height, glandular-hirsute throughout, not villous; leaves small, 

 9" broad; spikes short, 1' in length. Clover Mountains, Nevada; 11,000 

 feet altitude ; September. Specimens of the larger form, collected by Lyall 

 on the northern boundary, have the same general glandular pubescence with- 

 out fulvous hairs. (367.) 



Heucheea paevifolia, Nutt. Scabrous-puberulent ; scape naked 

 leaves roundish-cordate, crenately 5-7-lobed, at length glabrous, ciliate ; the 

 lobes short and rounded, with 1-2 slight crena,tions or sometimes crenately 

 serrate; panicle racemose, rather loose; bracts small, laciniate-ciliate ; 

 flowers small ; calyx adherent to the ovary, obconic at base, with equal dilated 

 or rotate limb ; petals minute, fugacious ; filaments and styles very short, 

 not equaling the calyx; seeds hispid.— Scape 6'-2° high; leaves 1-2' broad; 

 flowers greenish; panicle somewhat crowded and spicate in the smaller 



