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64. Notes from Utah. — Oxytropis campestris^ var. viscida^ Wat- 

 son. I found this plant on the summit of the highest mountain in 

 the Wasatch; it grows in large dense mats. The flowers are dark 



blue, never "white*' in my specimens, 



I have a number of interesting Astragali^ several of which ap- 

 pear to be new, especially those from St. George. 



Galium asperrimum^ Gray. The fruit is beset \yith short, stout, 

 aculeate hairs. One side of the fruit is often abortive. The plant is 

 certainly perennial. The flowers are white, 



Arabis longirostris^ Watson, seems to be quite variable, 



I found at Frisco a peculiar Lepidium which I sent out as Z. 

 Utahense^ n. sp., but it is said by Mr. Watson to be the little known Z, 

 integrifolium of Nuttall, the description of which I have not seen. 



The flowers of Malvastriim exile^ Gray, in all the many speci- 

 mens that I have, are almost pure white, not * 'purple." 



Frunus fasciculata^ Gray, passes the limits assigned to it by 

 Gray to a considerable extent. The flowers vary from one to ten 

 in a bunch, nearly equaling the leaves (in the short-leaved form), or 

 four times shorter. The leaves vary from 3" to 12" long, from short 

 spatulate to oblanceolate, with a long acuminate base and short pe- 

 tiole. Well-developed leaves are usually irregularly-serrate above 

 the middle, sometimes tridentate, or rarely three-lobed. The petals 

 are oblanceolate, not '^linear," and are white. 



Rubus leucodermis^ Dougl., has a delicious fruit and is very pro- 

 lific. It is a black raspberry. 



The flowers of my specimens of Gilia pungens^ var. sqicarrosa^ are 

 yellotVy as stated by Douglas. 



I have a Gilia which appears to be intermediate between leplo- 

 meria and inconspicua. The corolla is glandular and hairy on the out- 

 side, 6'' long, 3" broad, purple, lobes obovate, acute; radical leaves 

 once pinnatifid, with oblong, rounded or sinuate lobes, the few cau- 

 line leaves linear or sometimes pinnatifid. It resembles very closely 

 G. inconspicua, is not densely branched, is rather few-flowered, with 

 leaves almost all radical, is glandular throughout, and has seeds with- 

 out spiricles. ^ 



Gilia scopulorum, n. sp. I hesitate to describe as new, a plant 

 near to the group to which G, inconspicua and G. leptomeria belong, 

 but this plant seems so distinct that I venture to describe it. Corolla 

 tube very slender, 5' -7" long, V' /vide ; lobes and tube purple, 

 throat yellow; lobes i^" long by i" wide, obovate, scarcely acute ; 

 calyx i" long, with teeth lanceolate or oblong, awn-tipped ; capsule 

 broadly ovate, equaling the calyx-teeth; seeds without spiricles (ap- 

 parently); pedicels 2' -12" long, slender; lower leaves oblanceolate 

 or oblong, pinnatifid, with petioles 6" to 12" long, upper leaves 

 broader and less pinnatifid, short-petioled; uppermost, as broad as 

 long, and three-lobed, all awn-tipped ; a span or two high; annual; 

 leaves, stems and calyx viscidly hairy. 



The upper leaves of G, t?tconspiaia grow gradually smaller and 

 narrower as they approach the inflorescence, while those of this plant 

 follow the opposite mode of development. This plant grows in the 

 shade of the lava rocks at St. George, and flowers in April. Mr. 



