162 LEAFLETS. 



to 18 iaches high, glabrous, glaucescent : lowest leaves elliptic- 

 lauceolate, 3 or 4 inches long, short-petioled, the cauline ovate- 

 lanceolate to subcordate-ovate, the largest 2 inches long and IJ 

 inches in breadth toward the base : thyrsus large, at base leafy 

 and the clusters on stout peduncles of an inch or more ; both 

 bracts of the inflorescence and the long sepals scarious-edged 

 and laciniate : corolla purple, small for the plant, not more 

 than 4 lines long, but broad for this group, the tube ventricose 

 and segments short. 



Stony ground along stream banks at Gunnison, Colo., 24 July, 

 1901, C. F. Baker, n. 588 as in U. S. Herb. 



P. GLASTiFOLius. Allied to P. confertus, stouter, the few 

 stems rigidly upright, with broad and short capitiform cluster 

 of flowers at summit: leaves light-green, glabrous, thinnish, 

 blades of the basal ones elliptical, 1 to 2 inches long, on slender 

 petioles as long, the 3 pairs of the cauline spatulate-oblong, 

 sessile, erect, obtuse, all entire : sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliolate, 

 puberulent on the back, uot scarious-margiued : corollas } inch 

 long, nearly tubular, with short limb. 



Mineral King, Sierra Nevada, Calif., 3 Aug., 1891, Coville & 

 Funston, n. 1449, as in U. S. Herb. 



P. ALSINOIDES. Low suffrutesceut slender ally of P. confertus, 

 the loosely tufted stems only 6 or 6 inches high, decumbent or 

 upright, all parts glabrous except the short capitiform inflores- 

 cence : leaves nearly all obovate or obovate-lanceolate, more or 

 less distinctly short-petioled, I to li inches long, obtusish, thin- 

 nish : sepals all linear-lanceolate and acuminate, with no trace 

 of scarious margin, sparsely pubescent on the back : corollas 

 very small, with nearly cylindric tube and comparatively ample 

 limb. 



Near Big Cottonwood Meadows, Sierra Nevada, Calif., 20 

 Aug., 1891, F. W. Koch, Death Valley Exp. n. 2138, as in U. S. 

 Herb, 



P DEPRBSSUS. Akin to P. confertus but low, cespitose, with 

 very stout woody branches 1 to 3 inches long clothed with small 

 entire coriaceous leaves h inch long, elliptical, on short stout 



