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preceding: capsule ovate, 5-toothed, very shortly stiped. — Bot. King 
Exp. 37, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 248. E. Humboldt Mts., Nevada, 
9,000 ft., Watson. 
+ + Alpine or far Northern species. : 
++ Calyx ovate, not strongly inflated: flowers on each stem 3 or 5 densely 
aggregated, rarely solitary: petals exserted: seeds tuberculate. 
L. triflora, R. Br. Viscid-tomentose: stems 3-8 inches high: 
leaves thickish, linear-oblong, often conspicuously ciliate : flowers short- 
pedicelled: calyx with 10 broad indistinct purple or green nerves: 
petals white or roseate ; the blade obcordate ; the claw scarcely auri- 
cled. — Ross Voy. App. cxlii., name only ; Sommerfelt, Mag. Naturv. 
ii. (1824), 151, 152; Wats. 1. c.247. ZL. apetela, var. paucifiora, Dur. 
Pl. Kane, 189. Agrostemma triflora, Don, Syst. i. 417. DMelandrium 
triflorum, Liebm. Fl. Dan. xiv. t. 2356; Rohrb. Linnza, xxxvi- 231. 
Wahlbergella triflora, Fries, Summa Scand. 155. — Greenland, from 
Polaris Bay (Bessel) southward; Grinnell ‘Land, Greely. 
Var. Dawsoni. Calyx with principal nerves double or triple, 
joined by interlacing veinlets; the intermediate nerves beneath the 
sinuses inconspicuous or wanting: petals very narrow; the blade 
oblong, bifid, hardly to be distinguished from the narrow claw.— 
Gravel banks, N. British Columbia, 100 miles northeast of Dease » 
Lake, Dr. G. M. Dawson. 
++ ++ Calyx ovate, scarcely inflated : flowers erect or slightly nodding in anthe- 
sis : stems usually 1-flowered, occasionally loosely several-flowered. 
= Rocky Mountain and Western alpine species. 
L. Kingii, Wats. Densely covered with a very short pubescens 
somewhat glandular above: stems slender, erect, 4-6 inches high, A 
_ flowered: leaves narrowly linear: the blade of the petals rather 
short and broad, emarginate; the claw with broad ciliated auricles 5 
appendages oblong: filaments pubescent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 247, 
exclusive of Wyoming plant. ZL. Ajanensis? Wats. Bot. King Exp. 
37. — Peaks of the Uintas, N. Utah, Watson. Additional material of 
this little known species may perhaps show it to be merely a Souther? 
form of L, affinis. 
L. montana, Warts. Glandular-pubescent: root thickish, sub- 
simple: stems erect, 2-4 inches high: leaves linear, 1-1} inches ™ 
length: calyx green- or rarely purple-nerved, 5-6 lines long; the 
teeth short, scarcely acute: petals narrow, about equalling oF ® line 
or two exceeding the calyx; the blade small, bifid; the claw nartowy 
}—3 lines in breadth; appendages small or absent: filaments oe 
capsule sessile or nearly so.— Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 247, excl. of : 
