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ROBINSON, — ALSINE&. 295 
+ + Sepals ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the petals (ex- 
cept in A. macradenia, var. Parishiorum). 
A. compacta, Covitir. Root thick, ligneous: caudex much 
branched and bearing very closely tufted rosulately spreading subulate 
glaucous leaves; the latter not exceeding 2 lines in length, minutely 
glandular, ciliate: stems slender, an inch or more in height, simple or 
sparingly branched, almost naked, the cauline leaves being few and 
much reduced: flowers terminal on the branches: sepals 1} lines long, 
scarious-margined, thickened in the middle, attenuate. — Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Wash. vii. 67; Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. iv. 70, t. v. — Moun- 
tains of Tulare Co., Calif., Coville, August, 1891. 
A. congesta, Nurr. Smooth, or more rarely glandular-pubes- 
cent: stems slender, simple, 5-14 inches high, numerous, springing from 
a matted non-ligneous caudex: basal leaves gramineous-setaceous, $-3 
Inches long, ciliolate-serrate near the base: cauline leaves rather dis- 
tant, gradually reduced: flowers sessile or shortly and unequally 
pedicelled in 1-3 dense heads (subtended by 1-several pairs of sca- 
"lous-margined bracts) : sepals carinate, obscurely 3-nerved, membra- 
nous-margined, 2 lines long, considerably exceeded by the narrowly 
oblong petals : stigmas not strictly capitate. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 
Fl. i178; Torr. Frem. Rep. 87; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 39 ; Porter 
Coulter, Fl. Col. 13; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 69; Greene, Fl. 
Francis, 123 (excl. syn.); Mrs. Brandegee, Zoe, ii. 161. — Rocky 
ts. of Colorado and Wyoming to the Yosemite (acc. Mrs. Brandegee) 
and northward to Washington, Suksdorf. 
: Var. suffrutescens. Caudex sometimes, perhaps always, very 
ligneous ; its branches becoming 2-3 lines in diameter, bearing fasci- 
cled Sub-equal leaves (an inch or less in length): flowers somewhat 
smaller (sepals 14 lines long) in spherical capitate umbels: pedicels 
slender, 2-3 times as long as the calyx : stigmas capitate. — Brewertna 
suffrutescens, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 620, under A. congesta ; 
pags ee Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 69; Wats. Bibl. Index, 95; Greene, Fl. 
Francis, 123. — California, Cisco, Bolander & Kellogg; Emigrant 
Gap, Jones; Tulare Co., Coville & Funston, 1504. A form too well 
ee in its foliage, ligneous caudex, and allium-like inflorescence to 
oe with the typical A. congesta, yet appearing to intergrade 
¥ Ms One of the transitional forms has been collected in Sierra 
alley‘ by Lemmon. ; 
Var. Subcongesta, Wars. Caudex more or less ligneous, stems 
ie glandular or pulverulent-pubescent, often knotted with enlarged — 
Odes: flowers as in the type, but borne in more or less expanded di- 
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