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rado. Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas; subalpine and alpine 

 meadovi^s ; 8-10,000 feet altitude ; July-September. (954.) 



Menyanthes teifoliata, L. New England to Pennsylvania and Wis- 

 consin, northward to Newfoundland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay and the 

 Saskatchewan ; Sitka, Washington Territory, and Sacramento Valley. Ruby 

 Valley, Nevada; flowerless stems; 6,000 feet altitude. (955.) 



Hesperochieon^ Califoenicus. {Ourisia Califomica, Benth. Plant. 

 Hartw.^p. 327.) More or less hirsute-pubescent; leaves clustered upon the 

 summit of a short fusiform root, oblong or ovate, attenuate into a somewhat 

 dilated fleshy petiole, obtuse, entire or obscurely repand-dentate, ciliate, 1-2' 

 long ; peduncles naked, 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; calyx-segments 

 3" long, oblong, pubescent ; corolla 5-8" long, more or less deeply cleft, the 

 Hmb somewhat oblique, the tube and filaments somewhat hairy. — Pubescence 

 rather variable, the surface of the leaves and sepals occasionally smoothish. 

 An abnormal genus in some of its characters, its aestivation and the inequality 

 of the corolla-lobes and stamens suggesting an affinity to the Scrophulariacecs, 

 with which it was placed by Bentham without an examination of the ovary. 

 It is, however, doubtless more nearly a Villarsia. Indeed, the V. pumila of 

 Grrisebach, {Hook. Flor. Bor.-Amer. 2. 70, t. 157 ; the corolla, more open and 

 somewhat rotate, the tube densely hairy within, and the leaves and calyx 

 more glabrous,) is very similar and is probably either a second species or may 

 prove to be but a form of the present one. From the Columbia River to the 

 Sacramento, (1875 Hartweg, 379 Fremont, Cronkhite, and Lyall,) the 

 "Snake Country," (Tolmie,) and near Carson City, (Anderson.) Found in 

 the latter locality, in grassy meadows;- 5,000 feet altitude; April. Plate 

 XXX. Fig. 1. A rather large plant'; natural size. Figs. 2, 3. Flowers, 

 different forms. Fig. 4. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. Fig. 

 5. Stamen. Fig. 6. Ovary. Fig. 7. Mature capsule. Fig. 9. Seeds; all 

 enlarged four diameters. Fig. 8. Section of ovary ; enlarged eight diame- 

 ters. (956.) 



' HESPEEOCHIEON. Calyx 5- (sometimes 6-7-) parted, the segments unequal. Corolla rather 

 narrow'catnpanidate, without either glands, corona or folds, the limb 5- (sometimes 6-7-) cleft, slightly 

 bilahiate andjmore or less spreading, the segments suhequal, imbricate in aestivation. Stamens as many 

 as the corolla-lobes, inserted at the base of the tube, unequal ; filaments fleshy, attenuated upward ; 

 anthers oval, erect, cordate at base, 2-celled, cells laterally dehiscent. Ovary 1-ceUed, surrounded at base 

 by 5 obscure glands, the numerous ovules attached in 2 rows to the sutural placentaj. Styles united 

 nearly to the apex, persistent ; stigmas entire. Capsule 1-celled, loculicidally dehiscent, 2-valved, valves 

 entire. Seeds wingless, ovate, roughened. — A perennial or biennial acaulescent herb. 



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