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of a few linear, acute, fleshy, not scarious scales, 2 to 3 lines long, 
distinct to the base; pedicels in fruit 2 lines long, filiform; flowers 5 
to 8 from each ray; fruit 2 to 24 lines long, broadly oblong trun- 
cate at each end, face concave only, about 1% ofa circle, less than a 
line wide; oil tubes 3 between the ribs and 6 on the commissure; 
lateral wings a line wide, dorsal % less, all thick and corky for the 
size of the fruit. It is a close congener of C. /ongipes but differs in 
the size and division of the leaves, white flowers, small and simply 
concave fruit, and habitat. It is found only on clayey alkaline soil 
in the centers of the valleys. The fruit face is that of C. montanus. 
Deep Creek Valley, 5,000 feet altitude, June, 1891. A feature of 
the flowers that is more or less common to all the genus is in the 
petals, which are triangular lanceolate from a broad base, thick, 
deeply sulcate, barely acute, with incurved apex, so that the tip 
- touches the disk between the contiguous edges of the petals; anthers 
black purple, reniform cordate, lying on the recurved filament 
next the edges of the petals like seeds in a five-celled pod, just 
bursting forth; they are very pretty; the filament straightens and 
‘thrusts the anther 1% a line beyond the petal; it then bursts; style 
not exserted at first. 
CyMOPTERUS LONGIPES Watson. This plant is acaulescent at 
first and the yellow flowers are sessile in a rosette of green leaves, 
then the flower stalk lengthens always, is erect, and, after blooming, 
droops till the fruit is pendent, then as the fruit ripens the stem 
(peduncle) usually becomes erect again. The scape usually 
lengthens also, but not always. Abundant in the Wasatch and less 
common westward. 
OROGENIA LINEARIFOLIA Watson. The Indians are fond of the 
raw bulbs. The flowers are white and the peduncles decumbent. 
This is one of the very earliest bloomers, and, though common, is 
seldom seen, as the plant is hardly visible when in fruit and even 
that disappears in a few weeks with the leaves. 
TOWNSENDIA SCAPIGERA Eaton. The flowers open between 9 
and 1o in the morning and close between 5 and 6 in the afternoon. 
It is frequent. 
I think that Gray has confounded two well-marked species of 
Bigelovia in his cosmopolitan B. graveolens. One has a thyrsiform 
inflorescence, cylindric campanulate corolla with reflexed or widely 
