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ones 1-li" long ; flowers 2-3, sessile or shortly peclicelled, terminal and 

 occasionally also axillary, 2' long ; corolla-lobes very acute, greenish-blue, 

 punctate, the folds truncate and crenate. Uinta Mountains, above head of 

 BearEiver; 12,000 feet altitude ; August. (950.) 



GrENTiANA AFFiNis, Sm. Perennial ; stems clustered, ascending ; lower 

 leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, the upper lanceolate, rather acute, scabrous 

 upon the margin ; flowers solitary and pedicelled or clustered and subsessUe ; 

 bracts nearly equaling the calyx ; calyx 5-cleft, lobes oblong-linear or some- 

 times dilated, unequal, about equaling the entire or variously cleft tube ; corolla 

 blue, beardless and glandless, narrowly clavate, open, twice longer than the 

 calyx, the lobes oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, thrice longer than the cleft folds ; 

 anthers free ; testa slightly winged. — Quite variable ; stems 10-20' high, 

 1-flowered, or the solitary axillary flowers (10"-l'in length) on long pedicels, 

 or the axillary peduncles several-flowered and much reduced in length ; calyx- 

 lobes very variable, sometimes almost none, and rarely wholly occupying the 

 truncate border of the tube ; stigmas connate or twisted or diverging ; cap- 

 sule on a stipe nearly equaling the calyx-tube ; seeds orbicular or oblong, 

 winged or wingless. From the Red River and Saskatchewan west to Wash- 

 ington Territory and southward into California, Utah and New Mexico. 

 Ruby, Huntington, and Goose Creek Valleys, Nevada, and Bear River Valley 

 in the Uintas; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (951.) 



GrENTiANA Paeeyi, Eng. Trans. Acad. St. Louis, 1. 218. Perennial ; 

 stems one or several, ascending or erect, 4-9' high, simple, leafy, few-flowered; 

 leaves somewhat glaucous, broad at base, rounded-ovate, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, 10-15" long and 3-10" wide, subobtuse or acute, spreading, the 

 uppermost narrow, carinate and boat-shaped, involucrate to the sessile large 

 bluish-purple flowers ; calyx 5-cleft, membranous, entire or sometimes more 

 or less slit, the lobes linear, shorter than the tube ; tube of the open corolla 

 obconic, twice longer than the calyx, the erect broadly obovate lobes very 

 shortly acute, scarcely exceeding the bifid folds ; ovary lanceolate, stipitate. — 

 Flowers 15- 18" long, very deep purple, greenish below, the lobes a third as 

 long as the tube, widening upward. Colorado and Utah. Clover Mountains, 

 Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 10,000 feet altitude ; August, September. (952.) 



Feaseka speciosa, Dougl. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 2. 66, t. 153. Stem 

 stout, erect, 3-5° high, strict, usually simple, glabrous; leaves in fours, thick. 



