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abortive or on the shorter stamens wholly wanting ; filaments slightly vil- 

 lous. — Sonora, (Thurber ;) near Great Salt Lake, (Fremont.) 



CoEDYLANTHUS CANESCENS, Gray ; /. c, 383. Hoary with a short soft 

 pubescence; stem erect, 1° high; leaves lanceolate-linear, acute, suberect, 

 entire ; flowers purplish, few, in a simple spike or head, each sessile in the 

 axil of a clasping lanceolate bract ; bractlets none ; the single calyx-leaf 

 opposite to the bract, 2-toothed ; filaments glabrous, and the anther-cells 

 hairy only at base. — Near Carson City, (Anderson,) and Lake Washoe, 

 (Torrey.) 



CoEDYLANTHUS KiNGii. Erect, branched, pubescent with glandular 

 hairs ; leaves 3-cleft, segments linear ; flowers in a loose simple spike, soli- 

 tary and sessile in the axils of clasping bracts, which are 3-5-cleft and 

 equaling the flower ; bractlets none ; calyx-leaves single and opposite to the 

 bract, 2-3-toothed at the apex ; stamens 4, with hairy filaments and 2-celled 

 anthers, which are bearded at the base and apex. — Flowers few, (4-6,) pu- 

 bescent with reflexed hairs, rather large, (10" long,) purple. Rare ; found 

 only on a limestone ridge near Roberts Station in Monitor Valley, Nevada ; 

 6,000 feet altitude; July. Plate XXII. Fig. 3. A plant; natural size. 

 Fig. 4. Bract and calyx-leaf; natural size. Fig. 5. Corolla, laid open. 

 Fig. 6. Ovary and style ; enlarged two diameters. (818.) 



Pediculaeis Geoenlandica, Retz. DC. Prodr. 10. 566. Erect, 1-2° 

 high, glabrous ; stem simple, leafy ; leaves pinnately parted, the segments 

 lanceolate-linear, serrate ; spikes elongated, 3-8' long, many-flowered ; calyx 

 (2-3") tubular, 5-toothed, the upper tooth smallest and the lateral ones with 

 very shallow sinuses ; galea of the reddish corolla arched, exceeding the 

 calyx, produced into an elongated subulate beak twice longer than the calyx, 

 nearly straight or more usually becoming strongly recurved upward and 

 almost circinate. — Greenland, Labrador, and from Hudson's Bay to the west- 

 ern side of the Rocky Mountains, and southward to Wyoming and Colorado. 

 East Humboldt, Wahsatch, and Uinta Mountains ; 7-9,000 feet altitude ; 

 July, August. (819.) 



Pediculaeis beacteosa, Benth. DC. Prodr. 10. 574. Glabrous or 

 with the spike somewhat pilose ; stem erect, 1-2° high, leafy ; leaves pin- 

 nately parted, the segments lanceolate, incisely dentate or pinnatifid ; spike 

 elongated (3-8',) densely many-flowered, the bracts ovate, acuminate and 

 somewhat membranous ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-setaceous ; galea of the yel- 

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