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cases; stamens just exsert; capsule clavate, stipitate, sparsely 
villous and short tomentose; seeds smooth, favose, obovate- 
oblong. : 
Another form collected and distributed by me as No. 4270, 
collected at Bowie, Ariz., September 18, 1884, has leaves 
narrowly to broadly lanceolate, apparently glaucous, but really 
minutely tomentose, pilose on midrib and young shoots; two 
feet high; flowers twice as broad as usual, an inch long and 
enlarging at a point two lines above the base; uppermost leaves 
linear lanceolate, entire and very acute; lower leaves sharply and 
irregularly serrate; capsules giandular-pubescent, short stalked 
or nearly sessile; calyx lobes triangular and acute, nearly 
equaling the petals; stamens long or shortly exsert, unequal. 
I see nothing in the venation of the leaves that is of 
specific value in any forms of Zauschneria that I know. 
DODECATHEON. 
This genus has received considerable attention from Dr. 
Gray, H. L. Greene, and Mrs. Brandegee. Dr. Gray thought 
he had found a new character by which to separate species, and 
KE. L. Greene amplified Dr. Gray’s species considerably. I am 
not in a position to throw much light on the Pacific Coast 
species, and I leave them to others, but I am very familiar with 
most of the forms of the Great Basin and of Colorado. Mr. Greene, 
in Pittonia ii, 72, says, under the head of D. pauciflorum, ‘* The 
fruit of this common Rocky Mountain Dodecatheon was not 
known until I obtained it last year (1889).’’ This is not correct, 
as I collected and distributed the flowers and fruit of the Colorado 
forms in 1878 under my No. 131 in twenty different sets. I 
again sent them out in 1879 from Colorado. The Utah forms I 
distributed also in 1880 under my No. 201 5+ I now have 
both the flower and fruit of some of my original specimens. 
So far as the plants east of the Sierras are concerned I doubt 
if any of them deserve varietal rank, unless it be one Utah form. 
Dr. Gray seems to have given the plants of Colorado no attention 
unless he considers them all to belong to the type of D. Meadia L. 
Dodecatheon Meadial,. Inthe fruit retained by me in my No. 
131 from Colorado the capsule is broadly elliptical ovate, and a 
