212 BOTANY. 



Arctic Circle ; Northern California (Bigelow) and Colorado. A single speci- 

 men ; Echo Canon, in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude ; July. (743.) 



Pykola secunda, L. Northern States and through British America to 

 the Arctic Circle and Pacific Ocean; Washington Territory and Colorado. 

 Uinta Mountains ; 7-8,000 feet altitude; July. (744) 



MoNBSES UNIFLOEA, Gray. From Pennsylvania and New England north- 

 ward, throughout British America to latitude 64°, and on the western coast 

 from Sitka to Washington Territory; Colorado. Uinta Mountains; 9,000 

 feet altitude ; July. (745.) 



Chimaphila umbellata, Nutt. Mountains of North Carolina and 

 through the Northern States and Canada and westward, to latitude 53° ; on 

 the western coast from Washington Territory to Northern California. Uinta 

 Mountains, Utah ; 8,000 feet altitude ; July. (746.) 



Pteeospora Andromedea, Nutt. Pennsylvania to Vermont ; Canada ; 

 on the Saskatchewan ; Washington Territory to Northern California ; Colo- 

 rado. Uinta Mountains; 8-9,000 feet altitude; August. Stems l-3i° high ; 

 under pines. (747.) 



PLANTAGINACEZE. 



Plantago eeiopoda, Torr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. 2. 237. Perennial; leaves 

 fleshy, broadly lanceolate, 4-6' long, 1-2' wide, attenuate at each end, long- 

 petioled, glabrous, entire, 5-nerved; base of the leaves and scape clothed with 

 long dense brown wool ; scape 1° high, terete, glabrous or pubescent, with a 

 cylindrical spike (3-6' long) of rather remote perfect flowers ; bracts scari- 

 ous-margined, ciliate; stamens and styles very long; bracts broadly ovate, 

 mostly obtuse ; capsules 'd^5-seeded ; seeds not hollowed. — Anticosti Island, 

 (Pursh ;) Red River Valley, Dakota, and northward to Bear Lake ; valley of 

 the Platte to the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. In clayey 

 subalkaline soil in Ruby Valley, Nevada, and Bear River Valley ; 6,000 feet 

 altitude ; July, August. (748.) 



Plantago Bigelovii, Gray. Pac. R. R. Surv. 4. 117. Dwarf, 2-3' 

 high, annual, somewhat minutely hirsute or glabrous ; leaves fleshy, 1-2^' 

 long, linear-filiform, obtuse, entire; spike short-oblong, densely 3-12-flowered; 

 stamens 2 ; capsule oblong-ovoid, 3-4-seeded, longer than the calyx and the 

 ovate acute bract. — Spike in the present specimens linear and rather loosely 

 10-30-flowered ; style exserted, longer than the stamens ; corolla-lobes ovate, 



