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Pentstemon cephalophorus. Subspecific to P. procerus; 

 low and stout, herbaceous save as to the horizontal superfi- 

 cially seated subligueous rootstock, the strongly decumbent 

 flowering stems 4 to 8 inches high, glabrous below, as are also 

 the obovate or spatulate subcoriaceous basal leaves, but upper 

 part of stem and the inflorescence, even to the corollas, sparsely 

 and slenderly giaudular-hairy : cauline leaves in 3 pairs, all of 

 oblong outline, rather larger than the basal ones, all entire, the 

 middle pair usually with a few flowers in the axils, the summit 

 of the stem crowned with a dense globose and capitate cluster : 

 sepals thin lance-linear : corollas less than \ inch long, straight 

 and narrowly tubular, with a small limb of short subequal 

 rounded segments ; color purplish. 



Summit Lakes, at 11,000 feet, Culbertson, 19 Aug., 1904, 

 Baker's n. 4551. 



Apooynum oardiophtllum. Small and rather slender, only 

 8 or 10 inches high, very erect, branching from near the base, 

 stem and lower face of leaves very glaucous, the whole plant 

 glabrous ; leaves short petioled and 'all deflexed, mostly about 

 1 inch long, at base subcordate or occasionally only truncate, at 

 apex very obtuse, mucronate, dark-green and pale-veiny above ; 

 flowers rather many, terminal and from the axils of the upper 

 leaves, of large size but in small clusters : sepals short, ovate, 

 acuminate, of about one-fourth the length of the large, deeply 

 flesh-colored corollas, these broad-cylindric, about J inch long, 

 their at length spreading lobes very short and obtuse ; fruit not 

 seen. 



Hackett's Meadows, at 9,000 feet, Culbertson, 18 July, 1904, 

 Baker's n. 4473. Very near that more northerly dwarf with 

 decumbent stems, broader leaves, and more deeply cleft corolla, 

 now called A. pumilum. 



Crytanthe incana Annual, freely branched from near 

 the base,jthe branches ascending, a foot long or less; whole plant 

 cinerous-hispidulous and with a different minute strigose hairi- 

 ness underneath the more copious hispid indument: flowering 

 branches loosely spicate, bractless except at base : calyx small, 

 the sepals short, narrow throughout, not with attenuate or pro- 



