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fascicles, with large dilated membranous bracts: petals nearly twice as long as 

 the sepals : stigmas capitellate. — Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, 

 to Washington. 



Yar. subcongesta, Watson. Flowers less densely fascicled and some- 

 what r.ymose. — Bot. Calif, i. 69. A. Fendleri, var. subcongesta, of Bot. King's 

 Exp. and Fl. Colorado. Colorado, S. Idaho, and westward. 



2. A. eapillaris, Poir., var. nardifolia, Regel. More or less glandular- 

 pubescent above : leaves linear-subulate, pungent : flowers few in an open cyme ; 

 bracts small, lanceolate: petals half longer than the sepals. — Watson in Bot. 

 Calif, i. 69. A. nardifolia, Ledeb., and A. formosa, Hook., in Bot. King's 

 Exp. 39. From the British boundary southward to the Wasatch and 

 California. 



* * Petals about equalling the calyx. 



3. A. saxosa, Gray. Slightly-hispid pubescent: leaves lanceolate: raceme 

 many-flowered ', somewhat cymose: sepals with a distinct almost keel-like hispid 

 midrib. — PI. Wright, ii. 18. S. Colorado and southward. 



4. A. pungens, Nutt. Pubescent throughout, cespitose : leaves linear- 

 subulate, pungent, crowded : flowers in an open cyme, leafy-bracted : sepuls 

 acuminate, pungent: seeds very few, smooth. — W. Wyoming, Teton Moun- 

 tains, and westward to California. 



5. A. Franklinii, Dougl. Of similar habit, but stouter and less pubescent: 

 stems leafy at base : flowers fascicled in a rather close cyme: sepals smooth and 

 shining, scariously margined, as also the large bracts. — From Colorado to the 

 sources of the Missouri and westward to Oregon. 



Var. minor, Hook. & Am. With shorter leaves, bracts, and sepals ; the 

 last two membranaceous. — W. Wyoming, Parry. 



6. A. Fendleri, Gray. Stems numerous from a perennial caudex, glabrous 

 below, more or less glandular-pubescent above, imbr irately many-leaved at base: 

 leaves long, somewhat flattened, serrulate-scabrous, smooth except on the mar- 

 gins : cymes strict and few-flowered : sepals acuminate, witn a broad scarious 

 margin: seeds papillose-scabrous. — PI. Fendl. 13. Montana, Colorado, and 

 southward. 



Var. glabrescens, Watson. Nearly glabrous throughout: sepals shorter, 

 acute : leaves short. — Bot. King's Exp. 40. Colorado and westward to 

 Nevada. 



Var. diffusa, Porter. Branches of the cyme elongated, lax and ividely spread- 

 ing : flowers numerous. — Fl. Colorado, 13. XJte Pass, Colorado, Porter. 



§ 2. The 3 valves of the capsule entire: seeds not appendaged at the hilum. Ours 

 are all cespitose, not more than 3 inches in height, usually 1 to few-flowered, and 

 with petals commonly exceeding the sepals. — Alsine. 



7. A. verna, L Erect, pubescent or glabrous : leaves linear-subulate, 

 nerved, erect : cyme erect : sepah ovate, acute, mostly a little longer than the petals. 

 — Mountains of Colorado, Uintas, Teton Range, and northward to Arctic 

 America. 



Var. hirta, Watson. Leaves minutely hirsute, obtuse. — Bot. King's 

 Exp. 41. With the last. 



