98 LZAFLETS. 



* Species of the Pacific Coast ; British Columbia to Cali- 

 fornia. 



-1- Pubescence retrorse. 



1. A. Menziesii. SiUne Menziesii, Hook. Fl. i. 90, t. 30. 

 The several stems a foot high or more, firm, nearly upright, 

 loosely leafy and not very many-fiowered ; leaves oblanceolate to 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, IJ to 2 inches long, the 

 internodes as long; stem usually canescent below with a retrorse 

 villous pubescence, this more sparse on the pedicels and branches 

 of the cyme, and interspersed with short spreading gland-tipped 

 hairs ; both faces of foliage with a minute and short stiff pubes- 

 cence mainly retrorse ; pedicels an inch long, often not equalling 

 the leaves ; calyx delicately hirtellous, its triangular acute or 

 acuminate teeth of more than one-fourth the length of the tube; 

 lobes of the petals linear or oblong-linear, entire. 



British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, chiefly or alto- 

 gether westward and along the seaboard, though there are spec- 

 imens from Northern Idaho that must also be referred here. 

 Nuttall's Silent stellaroides may be distinct from this, but I can- 

 not identify it by his description . 



2. A. LATiFOLiA. Plants evidently forming colonies through 

 a system of superficially seated not slender rootstocks : stoutish 

 stems only 6 or 8 inches high, very leafy and with a reduced 

 and very leafy cyme: leaves 1} inches long and twice the length 

 of the internodes, f inch broad above the middle, cuneate-obo- 

 vate to oblong-obovate and broadly elliptical, cuspidately acute, 

 loosely hirtellous beneath, above almost glabrous, margin runci- 

 nate-ciliolate; stem retrorsely pubescent throughout, not even the 

 pedicels with either spreading or glandular hairiness : the few 

 slender pedicels not half the length of the leaves : calyx loosely 

 villous, the oblong-obovate teeth obtusish. 



In woods at Yale, B. C. Macoun, 17 May, 1889. U. S. Herb, 

 and Canad. Geol. Surv. n. 61,314. 



3. A. visoosA, Tufted stems ascending from a geniculate 



