104 BOTAIDT. 



mountains of Nevada and in the Walisatch ; 4,500-7,000 teet altitude ; 

 May-September. (396.) 



Epilobium angustifolium, L. In the mountains of North Carolina 

 and northward; Greenland and throughqut British America to Behring 

 Strait and the Pacific, southward to California and in the Rocky Mountains 

 to New Mexico, (Fendler.) In the West Humboldt Mountains, and Ruby 

 Valley, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 6-8,000 feet altitude; July-Septem- 

 ber. (397.) 



Epilobium obcoedatum, Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 6. 532. Dwarf, 

 glabrous ; stems decumbent, 1-5-flowered ; leaves opposite, sessile, broadly 

 ovate or oval, somewhat denticulate, glaucous ; buds nodding; calyx-tube 

 produced beyond the minutely puberulent ovary, infundibuhform, about half 

 shorter than the broadly lanceolate lobes ; petals large and of a bright rose- 

 color, obcordately 2-lobed, spreading ; style exceeding the stamens, declined ; 

 stigma shortly 4-lobed ; capsule clavate-oblong, pedicellate. — Alpine ; stems 

 ^-5' long, from a much branched woody rootgtock ; leaves somewhat crowded, 

 ^ long; petals J' in length. Sierras of California. East Humboldt and 

 Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 10,000 feet altitude ; August, September. (398.) 



Zauschneeia^ Calipoenica, Presl. Canescently and somewhat villously 

 pubescent; stems decumbent, 1-2° long; leaves oblong or linear-lanceolate, 

 entire or denticulate, the lower ones opposite ; flowers 1' in length, petals 

 deep-red, calyx lighter. — Very variable in its foliage ; the specimens have 

 mostly ovate or oblong leaves, 1-1 J' long. Southern and Lower California, 

 Arizona and Sonora. Wahsatch Mountains, Utah; 5-6,000 feet altitude; 

 July, August. (399.) 



Claekta*' ehomboidea, Dougl. Stems 1-3° high, sparingly branched, 



' ZAUSCHNEEIA, Pkesl. Calyx-tube linear, 4-aiigle(l, suddenly expanding aboTe the ovary into 

 a deciduous clavate-funnelform 4-lobed limb, globose at base and with 8 scales below the middle, 4 of 

 which are deflexed. Petals 4, on the throat of the calyx, obovate, 2-lobed. Stamens 8, the alternate 

 shorter, with filiform filaments ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 4-celled ; style elongated, filiform, with a 

 capitate 4-lobed stigma ; ovules numerous, in one row upon the inner angles of the cells. Capsule linear, 

 imperfectly 4-celled, 4-valved, the valves free from the axis ; seeds oblong, attached to the axis, tufted 

 with long hairs at the apex. — A low branched perennial, with sessile leaves and large solitary axillary 

 sessile flowers. Bbnth. & Hook. 



"CLAEKIA, PuRSH. Calyx- tube linear, 4-angled, slightly produced above the ovary ; limb fun- 

 nelform, 4-parted, deciduous. Petals 4, unguioulate, dilated, entire or 3-lobed, the claw 2-toothed. Sta- 

 mens 8, on the throat of the calyx, the alternate ones shorter, with filiform filaments ; anthers oblong or 

 linear, at length revolnte, those of the shorter stamens smaller or abortive. Disk annular, surrounding 

 the base of the style. Style filiform, with a broad cruoiately 4-lobed stigma. Capsule linear, narrowed 

 above, 4-ceUed, 4-valved to the middle", the numerous ascending papillose seeds in one row upon the ax- 

 illary placentsB.— Annual branching virgate herbs, with alternate leaves and rather large flowers 

 Benth, & Hook. 



