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high, from a tufted creeping rootstock, glandular-viscid and musk-scented ; 

 leaflets small and numerous, 1-4" long, mostly as if whorled or fascicled, 

 being 2-5-divided and sessile, the segments varying from round-oval to 

 linear-oblong; flowers capitate-crowded, or in fruit racemose-spicate, honey- 

 scented, nodding ; calyx-lobes narrow, the cylindric or oblong tube twice 

 longer ; corolla 8"-l' long, blue, the narrow-funnelform tube exceeding the 

 calyx and mostly 2-3 times longer than its rounded lobes ; filaments barely 

 hairy and scarcely dilated at base. — Rocky Mountains, latitude 38-49°, and 

 in the Sierras ; alpine. In the Wahsatch and Uintas, on rocky peaks ; 12,000 

 feet altitude; August. (930.) 



Var. MELLiTUM, Gray. Laxer both in leaflets and in inflorescence, with 

 the paler or whitish corolla 1' long, the lobes one-fourth the length of the 

 narrow tube. — Eocky Mountains of Colorado. East Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada, on a rocky peak ; 10,500 feet altitude ; August. (931.) 



PoLEMONiUM c^EULEUM, L. Oray, I. c, p. 281. New York and New 

 Jersey, rare ; common from the Rocky Mountains to California, Alaska and 

 the Arctic regions. Grlabrous or viscid pubescent ; corolla most usually blue ; 

 the seeds angled and often more or less winged. On stream banks and in 

 meadows, Huntington and Ruby Valleys, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and 

 Uintas; 6-8,000 feet altitude; June-August. (932.) 



Var. FOLiosissiMUM, Gray. Very viscid-pubescent ; stems 2° high with 

 the corymbose branches very leafy to the top ; leaflets frequently confluent 

 on a wing-margined rachis; stamens and style mostly shorter than the 

 smaller white corolla, which is twice, or more longer than the calyx. — In the 

 Rocky Mountains, from "Wyoming to New Mexico. East Humboldt Moun- 

 tains, and in the Wahsatch; 7-9,000 feet altitude; June-August. (933.) 



PoLEMONiUM MiCEANTHUM, Benth. Gray, I. c, p. 282. Annual, some- 

 what viscid-pubescent, branching, weak and difluse, 3-8' high; leaflets 

 simple, 5-13, obovate or lanceolate, 2-4" long ; flowers scattered or solitary 

 on the branches ; calyx deeply 5-cleft, decidedly longer than the white or 

 whitish almost rotate corolla ; filaments nearly naked, somewhat dilated at 

 base ; ovules 2-3 in each cell. — Nearly prostrate and much resembling an 

 Ellisia. Washington Territory. On damp foot-hills near Carson City, Nevada ; 

 4,500 feet altitude ; April. (934.) 



