ee Contributions to Western Botany. | ZOE 
collected in City Creek Cafion, near Salt Lake City, at about 
7000 feet altitude, on July 13, 1880, has broader leaves, on very 
long petioles, and the fruit on the same stem varies from ovate 
to lanceolate, equaling the calyx or surpassing it by two lines. 
In one pod the valves are ten and in the others five or more. 
This is in fruitonly. In other specimens collected at Lake Shore, 
on the margin of Great Salt Lake, at about 4200 feet altitude, 
the leaves are small, two to four inches long, oblanceolate and 
apiculate, or rarely oval, and in that case long petioled; scapes 
eighteen inches long, few to several flowered; flowers five-merous, 
purple, small; anthers only a line to a line and a half long, and 
broader at the very base, tube half as long; immature fruit 
inclined to be cylindric. 
Specimens from Sprucemont, Nevada, gathered by me on July 
II, 1891, have scapes one and one-half feet high; leaves oblanceo- 
late, barely acute, three inches long with petiole equaling blade; 
capsule ovate-oblong, five-valved, twice as long as the subulate- 
triangular calyx lobes. 
Ample material from Deep Creek, Western Utah , collected June 
2, 1891, has scapes one and one-half feet high, stout or slender; 
umbel twenty-five to fifty-flowered; pedicels one to two inches 
long in fruit; flowers five-merous, purple, small; stamen tube 
very short or as long as the anthers; anthers two lines long, with 
a subulate, purple beginning at base and extending above 
the middle, tips white as well as the margins, no purple ring; 
leaves four inches long or less, obovate to oblanceolate, entire, 
tapering into a petiole which equals the blade or is very short; 
capsule twice to four times as long as the subulate calyx lobes, 
nearly cylindric, and as in nearly all other Utah plants shortly 
acute, five-valved, or in many cases ten-valved. 
A fruiting specimen gathered by me at Emigrant Gap, Cal., 
in the Sierras, July 1, 1882, has the capsule and leaves of var. 
ellipticum K. Brandegee and the anthers and stamen tube of var. 
Seffreyt K. Brandegee. The bracts are lanceolate acuminate 
with filiform tips. The capsule is urceolate and a line longer 
than the calyx lobes. 
My specimens gathered at Fall Brook, Cal., March 23, 1882, 
and distributed in my Sets as No. 3398, have a slender scape 
