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rounded lobes: filaments filiform, exserted: style filiform, three times as 

 long as the calyx : capsule elliptical, merely emarp^hlate. Alpine regions 

 of the Blue Mountains of Oregon. 



V. Allen! Greenman Bot. Gaz. xxv, 263. Nearly glabrous below, pu- 

 bescent above : stems 3-4 inches high : lower leaves much redueed, upper 

 sessile, thickish,. oblong or pblonfe-oyate, 5-7 lines loiig, obtuse : inflores- 

 cence glandular- pubescent: pedicjels 1-3 lines long, often exceeding the 

 • bracts : calyx-lobes unequal, oblong or obloiig-ovate, obtuse or rounded-at 

 the apex" covered oh the outer surface and along th margins with long 

 glandular hairs: corolla 3-4 lines in diameter,' white or with a slightly 

 purplish throat, the upper lobe subrhombic,^emarginate, the lateral ones 

 ovate or ovate-rhombic, somewhat larger than the lower one : stamens 

 exserted: ovary closely, covered sibove with short glandular hairs: style 

 exserted : fruit not seen. Along Paradise river, Mount Rainier Wash. 



V. Wormskioidii Roem. & Sch. Syst. i, 101. V. alpina of American 

 authors' not of L. Hirsute-pubescent or glabrate: stetns slender, simple, 

 3-12 inches high, frpm slender creeping rootstocks: leaves mostly shorter 

 than the internodes, ovate to oblohg, obscurely crenulate, 6-12 lines long, 

 rounded, truncate dr subcordate at base, sessile or nearly so : racemes 

 spiciform or subspicate, dense, or interrupted below: pedicels erect, 

 shorter thab the calyx, much shorter than the lanceolate bracts : corolla 

 violet, its limb 2-3 lines in diameter, surpassing^, the stamens and shoH 

 *tyle,: .capsule elliptical-obovate, emarginate. In wet places in alpine 

 regions,, Alaska tbCalifornia and across the Continent. 



V. serpyllifoUa L. I?p. 12. Pubescent or glabrous: stems creeping 

 and branching at base, the branches at length ascending, 2-10 inches long : 

 leaves all opposite and petioled, or the upper ones sessile, oblong to oval or 

 ovate, 3-lOlines long, crenulate to entire : flowers in short spicate racemes 

 at the ends of the stems or branches : pedicels equalling or longer than the 

 calyx, usually shorter than the lanceolate or oblong bract^ : iCorpUa pale 

 blue with darker stripes, to almost while, about 2 lines in' diameter : sta- 

 mens and style exserted: capsule broader than high, obcordaite, about a 

 line high, equalling the calyx,: seeds flat. In wet places Alaska tq Cali- 

 fornia and across the Continent : also in Europe, Asia and South America. 



* * * Low annuals : flowers in th,e,axils, of ordinary or of the upper 

 more or Isss reduced ind commonly alternate leaves : corblla mostly 

 shorter than the leaves. I ' 



V. ■ peregrina L. Sp. I'i. Glabrous, or glandular-puberulent : stem 

 erect, 2-6 inches high, usually branched from the base : leaves thickish, 

 4'^12 lines long, the lower petioled and« oblong or oval, dentate;; the others 

 seissile, from oblong to linear-spatul^ate, mostly attenuate; upperijaost more 

 bract-like and entire: pedicels a line long, much shorter than thie bracts: 

 corolla whitish, about a line iij diameter, shorter than the 'calyx: stamens 

 not exserted : capsule nearly orbicular, obeordate usually a little shorter 

 than the calyx, 1-1 J^ lines; high, many-seeded: seeds flat.,' Corq,n?on in 

 moist ori wet places Brit. Columbia to California and across the Continent. 



V. ABVENSis L. Sp. 13. Pubescent annual : stem slender, at first sim- 

 ple and ^rect, at Ipngth much branched and diffuse,- 2-10 inches long: 

 lower leavfes ovate or oval, opposite, obtuse at both ends, crenate or crenu- 

 late, 2-6 liiies long, the lowest petioled; upper leaves sessile, alternate, 

 ovate or'lariceolate, acute or acutish, commonly entire : pedicels .very short: 

 corolla blue or white, about a line in diameter,' shorter than the calyx : 

 capsule broadly ovate, obeordate, a line high. Common in waste places 

 and pastures, Brit. Columbia to California' and across the Continent: 

 naturalized from Europe. 



