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354 A Trip through Southeastern Utah. | [ZOE 
It is precisely on such treacherous grounds that C. duteus Dougl., 
GC. venustus Benth, and C. splendens Dougl. were established, and 
more recently C. Lyont Gray and C. Plummere Greene have been 
added to the number. Dr. Watson has already suggested that the 
first two may be confluent, yet in their typical forms they are the 
most distinct of the set, the first being yellow and the second lilac 
purple in color. Yet field observation compels the reference of a 
yellow variety to the lilac-colored species. The other species above 
named ail belong to the lilac series, differing from each other in the 
distribution and intensity of the coloration. In this respect typical 
specimens are sufficiently distinct, but considering the unreliability 
of this character it is not impossible that further observe may 
unite them. 
LiL&A suBpuLATA HBK. A rare plant in the South, and appar- 
ently the same elsewhere in the State. The only station known to 
me is the marshy margin of a shallow pond on the farm of Mr. James 
Stewart,near Colton. _ Fresh plants show some characters not in en- 
tire accordance with the published diagnosis of the species, which 
was perhaps drawn from dried specimens. Our plant is an annual, 
the leaves terete, or a little flattened, about six inches long, sheath- 
ing at base. Inflorescence axillary, of two forms; an androgynous 
spike exserted on a peduncle shorter than the leaves, and arising 
between two sessile ovaries whose filiform styles nearly equal the 
peduncle. I find no spikes entirely male. The anthers discharge 
their pollen while the spike is still inclosed in the sheathing bases of 
the leaves. The radicle fruits mature long before the spicate ones. 
GENERAL NOTES 
OF A TRIP THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. 
BY ALICE EASTWOOD. 
It was my good fortune the past year, towards the end of May, 
to travel on horseback through a part of the Great American Des«rt 
that has been but little explored. The road followed was a cattle 
highway from Thompson’s Springs, a station on the D. & R. G. W. 
R.R. in Utah, to Moab, a Mormon town on the Grand River; thence 
to Monticello, another Mormon settlement at the foot of the Blue 
Mountains; thence down Montezuma Cafion to the San Juan River, 
