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little surpassing the subulate calyx lobes, hardly acute; flowers 
many; bracts ovate and acuminate to linear and acute; corolla 
lobes five, about an inch long, purple; stamen tube a line long or 
none, yellow as in almost all other forms of the genus, purple 
ring present or absent; leaves oblanceolate six inches long, short 
or rather long petioled, entire; scapes twelve to eighteen inches 
high; whole plant glabrous and glandless, and the leaves not 
apiculate. Colorado Springs, May 30, 1878. 
All the Colorado specimens in my herbarium have acute 
anthers, and all my Colorado and Utah specimens have the 
capsule splitting into five valves through the base of the style. 
There is no trace of an operculum large or minute falling off like 
a lid, as is the case in my California plants. Nearly all my 
Utah plants have obtuse anthers that are linear or larger at apex 
than below, while the opposite is the case with my Colorado 
specimens. 
My other Colorado specimens were collected in Engelmann 
Cafion, June 14, 1879. ‘They are like the above in the many 
flowers, bracts, corolla, and calyx, and glabrous throughout, but 
the stems are two feet high, leaves a foot long, linear oblancelate, 
or a little broader, almost acute, petiole very short, calyx 
oblong ovate, and just exceeding the calyx lobes, or on other 
stems from the same root the capsule is nearly cylindric, being a 
little broader at the base and one-half an inch long; in other 
plants from the same place the calyx is cylindric and narrow, 
one-half an inch long. I have a few specimens from the same 
locality that have broadly oblanceolate, short leaves with almost 
no petiole, and repand mouse: few flowers, otherwise as above, 
but fruit not seen. 
My Utah plants No. 2015 have linear-oblancelate leaves, 
with petiole half the length of leaves, and broadly or scarcely 
margined, whole leaf two to four inches long; scapes six to twelve 
inches long; flowers four-merous, purple or light-colored; stamen 
tube none; calyx lobes subulate; bracts lanceolate to linear and 
very acute; capsule ovate or urceolate, not quite equaling the 
calyx lobes, the five valves also notched. The whole plant is 
perfectly glabrous. Collected at Silver Lake, gooo feet altitude, 
July 30, 1880, in American Fork Cafion, Utah. Another plant 
