Netson: New PrLants rrom Wyomina 405 
Collected by Elias Nelson in the Indian Grove Mts., July 18, 
1898, no. 4898a; by L. N. Goodding at Medicine Bow, June 19, 
1901, no. 43. 
- Plantago nitrophila 
Allied to P. Rugelit but coarser and larger ; rootstock short, 
with a great number of thick fibrous roots: leaves 1 dm. or more 
in length, mostly oval, sometimes nearly orbicular, obtuse or ob- 
tusish, entire or crenately dentate, the 5-7 nerves extending into 
the pubescent petiole which generally equals or exceeds the thick 
blade: scape proper about equaling the leaves, whitish with soft 
crinkly hairs : spike equaling the scape, simple or with 2 or more 
short spikes from the lowest foliar bracts, moderately thick, 
crowded: bracts proper ovate, subacute, scarious-margined, 
keeled and closely appressed, shorter than the mature fruit: 
Sepals nearly orbicular, overlapping each other, scarious with a 
green midrib, but little more than half as long as the bracts : cap- 
sule ovate, 3-4 mm. long, circumscissile near the base: seeds 
7-10 in each cell, oblong-elliptic, obscurely wing-angled and deli- 
cately reticulated, dark brown. 
Readily distinguished from P. Rugelii. by its coarse leaves, 
heavy petioles, thick spike, shorter and thicker capsules, the dif- 
ferent bracts and sepals, the reticulated seeds as well as the pubes- 
cence and larger size of the plant. It is indigenous on wet, grassy 
Saline banks throughout the state but not frequent or plentiful. 
The type is no. 8417, from an alkali creek bog, near Manville, 
Converse county, Wyoming, July 17, 1901. 
“Helianthus Utahensis (D. C. Eaton) 
Roots fleshy, fascicled or variously branched from the gnarled 
central shaft, mostly fusiform, often nearly 1 dm. long : stems gen- 
erally solitary, simple below, branched above, 1 m. (more or less) 
high, glabrous, striate : leaves opposite, 7-15 cm. long, all lanceo- 
late, the uppermost narrowly so, only the midrid conspicuous, green, 
with short Sparse incurved hispid hairs which sometimes arise from 
a slightly pustulate base, sparsely ciliate on the short petiole: heads 
terminating the many slender, ascending or divaricate branches: 
peduncles pubescent, slender ; those from the lower axils often much 
elongated : involucre hemispherical ; its bracts linear-lanceolate, 
White-ciliate-pubescent on the margins, 10-15 mm. long, the loose 
acuminate tips often reflexed: rays usually 14-18, 25-30 mm. 
aug, Narrowly oblong: disk yellowish-brown, 1 cm. high and 
fully as broad ;_ chaff oblong, acute, pubescent on the brownish 
