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ably. The pistil was erect and protruded its viscid stigmas from 
the opening bud without a grain of pollen to be seen. The stigma 
lobes which were folded in the bud expanded as the corolla unfold- 
ed. Humming bird moths frequented the patches and flew from 
flower to flower almost as soon as they were open. The flowers 
were withered before noon the next day. They have a fragrance 
sweet and strong, so much like a lily that they are often so called. 
I suppose that the color too has something to do with the incorrect 
name. 
One morning in June, after a frost the preceding night, I per- 
ceived, as I was riding along, an open flower with the lobes of the 
stigma closed. I had never noticed such a phenomenon before, 
and it impressed me as singular. I wondered if the frost had closed 
them after expansion or if the cold had prevented their opening. 
Did the stigma lobes come together to protect the naked stigmatic 
surfaces, or was it merely an accident ? 
_ Génothera scapoidea Nutt., has two distinct forms which are both . 
found at Grand Junction, sometimes even growing side by side. 
The small-flowered form blooms earlier than the other. The differ- 
ence in size is marked, one having flowers an inch in diameter with 
protruding stigmas, the other with corollas less than a quarter of an 
inch across and stigmas included and fertilized in the bud. The 
pods and seed differ only in size but to a less degree than the flow- 
ers. Both have the red spots at the base of the petals and both 
have variable leaves. Generally they are entire, sometimes they 
have a few short irregular lobes at the base of the blade, and rarely 
have I seen them with margins irregularly sinuate toothed. 
Gnothera cardiophylla Torr. Approaches so near to CE. scapot- 
dea that it is impossible for me to discriminate among the several 
forms which I collected this spring. The Grand Junction form has 
stems leafy along the branches instead of at the base; the leaves are 
oblanceolate, sinuate, dentate or entire, often with small irregular 
lobes below the blade. The flowers are very small and reddish, 
orange when they first open. The Moab form has all the leaves, 
except the bract-like upper ones, clustered near the root; the upper 
leaves are small, ovate and remotely dentate, the lower have from 
* one to five pairs of small irregular leaflets on the long petiole. The 
- pedicels equal the pod, but they vary in length in almost every 
plant. Another Moab form has all the leaves clustered at the base 
