280 BOTAlfTY. 



acutish, 7-9-nerved, the lowest oblong-lanceolate, 6-9' long and 2' wide, 

 attenuate into a long petiole, the cauline connate at base and the uppermost 

 linear; the racemose cyme densely flowered, elongated; calyx-segments 

 linear, acuminate, equaling the whitish punctate coroUa; glands in pairs, elUp- 

 tic-oblong; filaments dilated at base, scarcely united; style about equaling 

 the ovary.— Biennial ; stem not sulcate, often flowering to the base, thick and 

 succulent with a large pith ; peduncles axillary, somewhat in fours, unequal, 

 simple and 1-flowered or umbeUate at the summit ; flowers 1' in diameter, 

 the petals bearded at base between the filaments. In the mountains from 

 Washington Territory to Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, (Fendler ;) 

 Sierras at head of Carson River, (C. D. Gibbs ; Tesseranthium radiatuin, Kell.) 

 In the Diamond and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wah- 

 satch, usually on divides and sometimes abundant; 7-8,000 feet altitude; 



June, July. (^953.) 



Feaseka albomaeginata. Slender, 2-3° high, glabrous, branching into 

 an open panicle ; branches and branchlets verticiUate in fours or sometimes 

 opposite ; leaves verticiUate in fours, narrowly oblanceolate, 2-4' long, 3-5" 

 wide, obtuse or acute, margined with a silvery-white line and more or less 

 undulate ; upper leaves and bracts lanceolate from a clasping base, acuminate ; 

 pedicels spreading, ^-2' long; calyx-lobes 2-3" long, ovate-lanceolate; corolla 

 9" in diameter, the petals broad-oblong, acute, greenish yellow, dotted vsdth 

 black above the middle, the base deeper green ; gland linear-oblong, fringed 

 with a villous border, expanding at the top into a broad obcordate deep-green 

 villous spot — Near St. George in Southern Utah, (Dr. Palmer, 1870.) 



SwEETiA^ PEEENNis, L. DC. Pwdr. 9. 132. Perennial; stems from 

 running rootstocks, erect, 6-15' high, few-many-flowered; lower leaves 

 oblong-elliptic, long-petioled, the cauline ones opposite, ovate-oblong, obtusish ; 

 flowers erect, 6-8" in diameter; corolla-segments coriaceous, grayish-blue 

 with darker spots, elliptic-oblong, acutish, twice longer than the lanceolate 

 calyx-lobes; glands in pairs, orbicular, the fimbriate crest distinct; stigma 

 reniform, sulcate ; seeds winged. — Leaves either alternate or opposite. Ko- 

 diak, Alaska ; Wind River Mountains, (Frdmont ;) Rocky Mountains of Colo- 



'SWEKTIA, L. Flowers 5- (or sometimes 4-)meroiis. Calyx-segments united at the very base, 

 valvate. Corolla witliering, rotate, without corona or folds, glands fimbriate on the margin. Stamens" 

 inserted on the throat ; filaments eq^ual at base ; anthers at length incumbent, nodding. Stigma ter- 

 minal, seated on the ovary, continuous, emarginate-reniform. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, septicidal. 

 Seeds numerous, attached to the valves. De Canbollb. 



