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HESPERANTHES ALBOMARGINATA. Six inches to a foot high; 
roots slender, many, long, root stock at base of stem thickly covered 
with long coarse fibers, inside of these are several 1 to 3-inch long, 
scarious sheaths; leaves all at the root, as long as the stem, very 
narrow and onion-like; lower part of stems and leaves occasionally 
roughened, otherwise smooth; stem 6 to 12 inches long and erect; 
_ flowers racemose-spicate, 1 to 3 under each ovate, acuminate, scari- 
ous bract which is 6 lines long; flowers on 6-line-long, erect, stout 
pedicels, and pedicels jointed above the base; flowers white and 
_ Scarious with three very prominent green nerves, which give the 
flowers a greenish tinge; segments of flowers lanceolate to oval and 
obtuse, 3 to 6 lines long, % longer than the curved, smooth and 
sparingly hairy filaments; anthers sparingly hairy; slender style 
elongated, enlarged and capitate at tip; capsule oblong and bluntly 
lobed; lowest bract sometimes flowerless and an inch or more 
long. 
_ Collected May 9, 1890, at Green River, eastern Utah. This is 
one of the most evanescent of the flora there, and very attractive. 
It grows on the most desert places, generally in sandy clay. 
CALOCHORTUs FLEXUOSUS Watson, is described as having no 
_ bulbiferous stems while the opposite is the case. It abounds from 
the base of the Book Cliffs southward, and southwestward into 
_ Arizona and California. The stems are remarkable for their sinuous 
character. 
Pinus monopuy.xa Torrey & Fremont, var. EDULIS. Leaves 
2 to 3, entire margined, more slender than the typical form; stami- 
nate involucre 4-leaved; cones about one-half smaller than type. 
There is no reason why this plant should continue to rank as a 
species, as it is but a 2+ to 3-leaved variety of P. monophylla. 
Whether this species shall be reduced to P. cembroides I leave for 
the future to decide. As long as ten years ago I found plants with 
both sirgle and double leaves on the same branches. About the 
same time I met Prof. J. S. Newberry who told me he had seen the 
‘Same thing. At odd times I found similar leaves without any par- 
ticular hunting, at various places. Last year while at Tintic, Utah, 
Imade a careful examination of a large number of trees and 
found many trees with the two- and one-leaved forms about equally 
distributed on the same plant. I collected many specimens of them | 
