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is a much more robust and coarser plant with more inflated pods. 
It grows at Weiser, Idaho, on mesas and is common. 
STANLEYA CONFERTIFLORA (Rob. ) Howell. Mr. Howell, who 
goes the Brittonians one better in erecting all varieties and forms 
into species without distinction, has accidentally made a fine species 
in this Stanleya. Though it is somewhat related to |S. viridiflora 
it is a better species than S. e/afa Jones. ‘The writer discovered 
it on April 27, 1900, near Weiser, Idaho, and later saw it in 
several places and had a chance to study it in all its phases. It, 
like all the other species, prefers rather loose clay soil where lit- 
tle else will grow, and grows only in the juniper belt. It is bien- 
nial, with a single stem from a stout, single, straight and erect 
root; the stems never branch except when injured, though the 
crown occasionally produces more than one stem; about half of 
the plant is the wand-like and very showy and long spike of 
flowers, yellow as gold; stems round, neither angled nor winged; 
leaves entire and like those of Aradis perfoliata; pedicels an inch 
long, ascending, rather stout, enlarged at both ends; sepals light 
green, linear, 34 line wide, obtuse, flat, faintly nerved, becoming 
reddish-yellow with age, very inconspicuous, erect, spreading 
only when old and then often twisted, thin but thickened at very 
base; petals very delicate and crimped, thin, 34 line wide, fully 
6 lines long, gradually. reduced to a flat but nearly filiform claw 
8 lines long, which is thickened at base; petals greenish-yellow, 
turning to white as they dry, white by the time the anthers begin 
to open, fully out before the sepals open except at the very tip, 
the anthers also being still inclosed in the sepals; anthers 2-celled, 
3 lines long, broadly linear, obtuse, straight, as the cells begin to 
open at the tip they coil tightly as they open, they are attached 
by the end; filaments are like the claws of the petals but not flat, 
filiform, about 9 to 12 lines long when fully out, all the floral 
parts perfectly smooth; immature pod 4 inches long, linear, on a 
stripe a trifle stouter than the filaments and as long, pod minutely 
and abruptly and bluntly apiculate; spikes dense, 1 to 2 feet long; 
whole plant is usually about 3 feet high. 
VioLa BECKWITHII T. & G. This plant is locally abundant at 
Weiser, Idaho. It has a little different habit from the species 
