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Notes from Nevada and Utah.-Mr. Watson identifies as Podos- 
ciadium Bolanderi a plant which has obcordate petals, and bracts tip- 
ped with an awn 4' long. 
I was fortunate in getting good specirnens of the extremely rare 
Ment 
Atttennaria Geyeri occurs in the mountains south of Keno, 
Nevada. 
Peciocarya setosa occurs rather abundantly at Empire City, Ne- 
vada, and has geminate nutlets. . ^ 
The Idaho plant, Gentiana simplex, occurs m the mountains ot 
Southern Utah, as do also Philadelphiis microphyllus, Zygadenus 
Missouriensis. 
Sometime since, Dr. Gray directed the attention of botanists to 
species of Mcntzelia as flv catchers. Soon after, I had occasion 
The leaves 
l^-' cAduune me leaves 01 m. . nevtcaun^ i^ic lu ■-••v, -".-. ---- 
are thickly beset with coarse hairs, which are furnished with several 
pairs of barbs pointing downward along them, while the top has 
an anchor-shaped summit twice as large as the other barbs. 1 hese 
