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specimens. In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico (Bigelow) 

 \ \ and in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. Found in the East Humboldt Moun- 

 tains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 5-9,000 feet altitude; May, July. 

 (368.) 



Paenassia parvifloea, DC. Sterile filaments in these specimens often 

 9, rarely as few as 5, occasionally none ; leaves with a somewhat cordate 

 tendency, the cauline often ovate, clasping; flowers 6-10" in diameter. 

 Hardly distinct from P. palustris. Rocky Mountains of British America, 

 latitude 52-56°, and of Colorado, (G-unnison, and Hall & Harbour ;) Wiscon- 

 sin, (Gillman.) Huntington and Ruby Valleys, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 

 6,000 feet altitude ; July, August. (369.) 



Paenassia fimbriata. Banks. Petals nearly sessile, fimbriate at base, 

 twice longer than the calyx; sterile filaments 5-9 in each set, or reduced to 

 a crenately -toothed broadly cuneate fleshy carinate scale; radical leaves 

 long-petioled, reniform, the cauline small, cordate, sessile above the middle 

 of the scape.— Scape 6-18' high; flowers 1' in diameter. Rocky Mountains 

 of Colorado, Wyoming and British America to latitude 56°; California, 

 (Brewer.) East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the 

 Wahsatch and Uintas; 7-10,000 feet altitude; August, September. (370.) 



Jamesia^ Americana,- T. & Gr. Cymes about equaling the leaves, 

 5-10-flowered ; petals white, 3-4" long, hairy within; calyx-lobes shorter 

 than the petals, enlarging and becoming foliaceous in fruit. — Rocky Moun- 

 tains of Colorado and New Mexico. Found in a shaded rocky gulch of the 

 American Fork Canon in the Wahsatch Mountains, Utah ; 7,000 feet altitude; 

 August. (371.) 



RiBES HiRTELLUM, Mx. The half-dozeu specimens are exactly . like 

 151 Parry from Colorado, except that they are perfectly glabrous with but 

 a few scattered hairs on the petioles. 1756 Brewer, of the California col- 

 lection, is the same and equally glabrous. From New England to Illinois 

 and northward to Hudson's Bay and the Saskatchewan ; Colorado, and north- 



' JAMESIA, T. & G. Calyx-tube Tery short, turbinate, adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 

 triangular-OTate, sometimes bifid. Petals 5, obovate, convolute. Stamens 10, the alternate ones shorter; 

 filaments linear, flattened, acuminate. Ovary conical, l-celled, with 3-5 parietal many-ovuled pla- 

 centae ; styles 3-5, equaling the stamens. Capsule included, incompletely 3-5-oelled, dehiscent between 

 the persistent divergent styles. Seeds horizontal, ovate, shining, striate-retioulate, the embryo in the 

 axis of the fleshy albumen. — A low diffusely branching shrub, 2-3° high ; loaves opposite, petioled, ovate, 

 mucronately serrate, canesoent beneath, as well as on the petioles, calyx and branchlets, with a soft 

 hairy pubescence ; flowers cymose, in terminal panicles, Benth. & Hook. 

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