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form, is distinguished by the great number of stamens and the papil- 

 lose filaments, even where the fruit can not be compared. 



G. Engelmann. 



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Notes from Utah and Nevada. — It was my good fortune on 



returning from California to spend a day or two in the East Hum- 

 boldt Mountains, Nevada, where Mr. Watson botanized years ago. 

 Some very interesting plants were found ; among them, Aspidiutn aai- 

 hatujn^ var, scopidinum. This grew in the crevices of rocks at 9000 

 feet altitude. On reaching Salt Lake City, I had occasion to botan- 

 ize at Wasatch, 20 miles southeast, at the mouth of Little Cottonwood 

 Canyon, (altitude about 5000 feet); there I found the same fern 

 growing in the crevices of wet rocks. It has the habit of Aspidiutn 

 Lonchitis^ and closely resembles it. I see no resemblance to A, acu- 

 leatum and cannot see how it came \o be referred to that species. I 

 understand that Prof. Eaton contemplates transferring it to A. moh- 

 rioides. I was able to secure quite a number of fronds and two liv- 

 ing plants, by'which it will be possible to study it still more closely. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Davenport for the determination. 



Prof. Eaton, in Bot. Wheeler's Rep., says that the sterile fronds 

 of Pellaea densa are rare. This is not the case in -Utah. They are 

 on almost every root of plants that grow at high altitudes. 



The spore-cases of Notholaena dealbata are quite interesting. They 

 are oval, light chocolate-brovvn, splitting entirely in two, one half 

 remaining behipd like the lower half of the pod of Portulaca^ making 

 the frond appear as if covered with minute shells. 



In my specimens of Sidalcea malvaeflor'a the pods are reticulated, 

 not smooth as stated in Botany of California. 



Dalea polyadenia is thorny and makes unpleasant swellings, when 

 the thorns pierce the flesh, as though it were poisonous. 



Astragalus multiflortis dries black, and is almost the only species 

 that I know which does dry thus. 



The appressed hairs of ToumseTidia scapigera are almost always 

 two-jointed and bent at the joints and so appressed. 



I have specimens of Chaenactis Douglasii from Nevada, with 

 the five outer pappus-scales blade at base and almost as long as the 

 akene, the five inner scales narrow, half as long; akene hirsute. 



In Chaenactis carphodinia the chaff subtends only one or two 

 rows of outer akenes in my specimens. 



Allium jvalidum has a narrowly-winged stem, and bulb-coat 

 reticulated, much like A. anceps\ the style is not always "longer than 

 the stamens." In other respects my specimens agree with Watson's, 

 which were gathered in the same mountains. 



I have Carex luzulaefolia from the East Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada, as well as from the Wasatch. 



I noticed in a former article that the shape of the sterile filament 

 is now given up as a test in Scrophularia Calif ornica. The Utah 

 plants which I have seen have the leaves of nodosa and the inflores- 

 cence oi Calif ornica, which adds another to the strong points against 

 the specific value of .5'. Calif ornica. I found a number of plants this 

 season which were devoid of any vestige of a sterile filament. 



