Fringed Grass Of Parnassus

Parnassia fimbriata
Add to the illustrations: Armstrong, Field Book W. Wild Fl. 197, /.
78. Insert:
4a. Parnassia Townsendii B. L. Robinson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 31:
266. 1904. Parnassia mexicana Rose, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 29: 438. 1905.
Rootstock short, with many fibrous roots; petioles 4-6 cm. long, dilated; blades oblong-oblanceolate, 4—6 cm. long, 14-16 mm. wide, 5-7-ribbed, minutely fulvouspunctate beneath; scape about 3.5 dm. high; bracts inserted near the middle, ovate, sessile, 1.5 cm. long, obtuse; sepals oblong, 5-nerved, 9 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, palegreen; petals 12-15 mm. long, 8 mm. wide, ochroleucous, 5-7-nerved, limbriate-ciliate on the margins near the middle, but entire at the cuneate-unguiculatc base and the obtuse apex; staminodial scales with about 6 filiform gland-tipped filaments. Type locality: Sierra Madre, near Chuichupa, Chihuahua.

Parnassia fimbriata Konig, Ann. Bot. 1 : 391. 1804
Rootstock short, ascending. Petioles of the basal leaves 5-15 cm. long ; blades reniform or broadly cordate, 2-4 cm. wide, thin, glabrous, with about 7 principal veins ; scape 2-3 dm. high ; bract cordate, more or less clasping, inserted at or above the middle of the scape ; sepals 5-6 mm. long, elliptic or oval, obtuse, and often crenulate at the apex, with about 5 principal nerves ; petals obovate, contracted below into a more or less distinct claw, fimbriate on the margins, with about 5 principal veins; filaments filiform, 7-8 mm. long; anthers ovoid ; staminodia united into 5 fleshy obovate scales with 5-9 short lobes ; capsule 1 cm. long or more, ellipsoid, 4-valved.
Type locality : North-west coast of America,
Distribution : In springy places in the mountains, Alberta to Colorado, northern California and Alaska.