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growing in Utah, but the same peculiar pubescence, the early 
flowers come out before the leaves, and it grows in practically the 
same situations, dry mesas. The 2 side petals have an oblong 
area at base, opposite or a little above the end of the stigma, 
which is covered with yellow, club-shaped hairs, there are none 
on the other petals; the lower two petals purple-veined below and 
tips of veins brush-like; stamens 5, with filaments about a line 
long and 34 of a line wide, flat, thick, 3 of them without a keel 
and purple-tinged in the middle, the 2 lower ones with a very 
broad and flat keel, % as high as long, flat on the edge and thick, 
all have a nearly square to ovate-oval, wing-like and very thin 
tip a line long, brick-colored, rounded, concave to stigma; anther 
cells attached to the inside of filament the whole length, 2, open- 
ing the whole length but after the stigma has protruded; style 
club-shaped, a little bent at the tip of the ovate pod, 1% lines 
long; stigma fornicate, covered with flat hairs. ‘The white petals 
have a yellow base, the purple petals a greenish base. This was 
in full bloom April 2oth, rgoo. 
Linum Kincit Watson. Petals rotate spreading, obovate or 
oval, lacerate or uneven on the edge, faintly veined, yellow; claw 
very short, a line wide; styles 5, widely spreading, filiform, yel- 
low, 3 lines long; anthers oblong-ovate, acutish, Sagittate, erect, 
stamens erect so that they stand above the spreading styles; stig- 
mas very small; filaments a line shorter than the styles; capsule 
ovate or oval. The edges of the sepals are lacerate-toothed. 
This is taken from the plant while growing, and from the type 
locality of Watson. 
Linum Lewisit Pursh. This grows in the oak belt and never 
is found in the upper spruce belt, where the other species men- 
tioned grows. It grows on dry and gravelly soil and singly, like 
the annual species. It is very slightly woody at base but never a 
true shrub like LZ. Aingiz, Flowers 3{inch wide, rotate, but with 
a short, campanulate base a line high, considerably lighter than 
sky-blue and with a tinge of purple, petals rhombic-obovate, 
nearly truncate, slightly lacerate, without claw, many-veined, 
veins at base of petal 5, very dark blue-purple and prominent, 
quickly branching, like a fan, and these again splitting and be- 
