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2. L. Kingii, Watson. Pubescent throughout : petals exserted, the short and 

 flat blade rather deeply emarginate ; appendages entire or toothed ; claw 

 ciliate, rather broad/// aurided : filaments ciliate. — L. Ajanensis? of Bot. King's 

 Exp. 37. Peaks of the Uintas and in X. W, Wyoming. 



* * Flowers rarely solitary: seeds tuberculate. 



3. L. Drummondii, Watson. Rather stout, finely glandular-pnbescent 

 above: leaves narrowly oblanceolate : flowers few, on stout often elongated 

 pedicels: petals included or nearly so, white or purple, Me entire or emarginate 

 blade narrower than the auric/ed claw ; appendages minute. — Siiene Drummondii 

 of the earlier Reports. Colorado, Wyoming, and northward. 



4. L. Parryi, Watson. Slender, finely glandular-pubescent above : leaves 

 linear : flowers with the lateral pedicels mostly short : petals long-exserted, pur- 

 plish, the broad biaele cleft to the middle and with a short narrow lobe on each 

 side ; appendages quadrate or ovate, cremate; claw broadly auricled. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xii. 248. X. W. Wyoming, Parry. 



3. C E R A S T I U M, L. Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



Stamens 10. Capsule often incurved, thrice the length of the calyx. — 

 Mostly pubescent or hirsute low herbs : flowers white, in terminal leafy or 

 scariously bracted dichotomous cymes. 



1. C. nutans, Raf. Annual, viscid-pubescent, erect : leaves narrowly oblong 

 or linear-lanceolate, clasping, the lowest spatulate ■ cyme open, rather many- 

 flowered : pedicels often nodding or rcflexed in fruit: petals slightly longer than the 

 sepals : capsule curved. — Across the continent and southward into northern 

 Mexico. 



2. C. alpinum, L. Silky-hirsute, decumbent, few-flowered : leaves elliptical- 

 ovate: peduncles more or less elongated: petals bifid, twice the length of the 

 ha in/ sepals : capsule nearly twice as long as the calvx. 



Var. Bahringianum, Regel. Petals and capsule half longer than the 

 calyx, shorter than the pedicels : stems 2 to 4-flowered. — C. vuJgatum, var. 

 Behringianum, of Fl. Colorado, Hayd. Rep. 1872, and Bot. King's Exp. 

 Mountains of Colorado and W. Wyoming. 



3. C. arvense, L. Perennial, downy with reflered hairs, cpspitose : leaves 

 linear to linear-lanceolate, clasping : cyme few-flowerrd : pedicels erect or nodding : 

 petals nearly twice longer than the sepals : capsule little exceeding the ca 7 i/x, nearly 

 straight. — Colorado and northward through Utah, Montana, and Wyoming, 

 and across the continent. 



4. STELLAR I A, L. Chickweed. 



Stamens 10 or fewer. Styles 3, or rarely 2, 4, or 5. Capsule globose to 

 oblong. — Low herbs, mostly diffuse: leaves rarely subulate: flowers white, 

 f olitary or cymose : stems mostly 4-augled. 



* Bracts small and scarious. 

 ■*- Petals none. 

 1. S. umbellata, Turcz. Glabrous : stems very slender, ascending from 

 slender creeping rootstocks, which are covered with orbicular scales : leaves 



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