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young and the petioles with the peduncles minutely puberulent ; raceme 

 many-flowered, with foliaceous bracts exceeding the pedicels ; calyx yellow, 

 tubular, long and slender, the segments spreading, much shorter than the 

 tube, about twice the length of the petals ; style undivided ; fruit glabrous, 

 yellowish-red, turning darker, edible.— Fjom New Mexico and Kansas to 

 Washington Territory and the Saskatchewan, (Bourgeau.) Frequent on 

 stream banks in northern Nevada and in the Wahsatch ; 4,500-6,000 feet 

 altitude ; flowering in May ; fruit ripe in July. (382.) 



CRASSULACE^. 



TiLL^A ANGUSTIFOLIA, Nutt. Branching from the base, rooting ; leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, connate, 1^" long ; flowers axillary, sohtary, on short 

 pedicels ; sepals 4, ovate, not half the length of the oblong white petals ; 

 carpels broad, obtuse, 8-seeded; style none, stigma minute; seeds nearly 

 horizontal, linear-oblong, minutely tuberculate in longitudinal rows. — Stems 

 1-2' high. Collected by Nuttall on the Columbia and Wallamette. Found 

 on the muddy banks of Goose Creek in Northeastern Nevada. (383.) 



Sedum Rhodiola, DC. Stems 4-6' high ; flowers of a deep maroon 

 color, occasionally perfect with 10 stamens and 5 pistils. — Pennsylvania, 

 Maine, Newfoundland and Labrador, Grreenland, the Arctic Coast to Behring 

 Strait, in the Rocky Mountains southward to New Mexico, and in the Cali- 

 fornian Sierras, (Brewer.) East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada; 9-10,000 

 feet altitude ; August, September. (384.) 



Sedum ehodanthum, Gray. Amer. Jour. Sci., n. s., 33. 405. Stems 

 numerous from a thick root, simple ; leaves flat, scattered, glabrous, oblong 

 or oblanceolate, entire ; corymb terminal, simple ; flowers perfect, mostly 

 tetramerous, more than twice the length of the pedicels ; sepals linear, petals 

 rose-color or nearly white, lanceolate, acuminate, twice exceeding the sepals 

 and a little longer than the stamens, which are adnate to them below the 

 middle; ovaries straight; styles filiform. — Stems J-l° high, with crowded 

 corymbs, 1-2' long, of large (4-5") flowers ; leaves 1-2" in length ; on stream 

 banks. Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Uinta Mountains, Utah ; 9,000 feet 

 altitude; August. (385.) 



Sedum stenopetalum, Pursh. Glabrous ; stems several, erect from a 

 decumbent base ; simple or somewhat branched ; leaves numerous, crowded 



