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and woolly, as well as glutinous. It is occasional in Western Utah 

 and Eastern Nevada. 



CEnothera Johnsoni Parry Am. Nat. 9, p. 270. This very 

 poorly described plant is said to have elongated stigmas, petals an 

 inch long, calyx tube not shorter than the leaves, capsules 9 to 1 2 

 lines long, somewhat 4-angled, strongly nerved, not crested, and 

 to resemble ffi. primiveris , and to be very common at St. George, 

 Southern Utah. The species which I have collected abundantly in 

 Western Utah and Eastern Nevada is perennial, csespitose from a 

 many-branched root, which is covered at the summit with the dead 

 petioles of former leaves, acaulescent or stems an inch or two long; 

 leaves lanceolate, gradually decurrent into the petiole, which is i 

 to 3 inches long, and never more than Vo the length of the blade; 

 blade entire or undulate, or irregularly and sparsely dentate with 

 sharp teeth; whole plant hoary with a dense, soft, and very short 

 pubescence; calyx tips free in the bud; calyx splitting on one side 

 and reflexed in flower, lobes i to i^^ inches long, tube 3 to 5 inches 

 long and erect, with 8 striae; petals rhomboidal, entire or slightly 

 lacerate on the edge; 2 to 3 inches wide, and 2 to 2}4 long, golden 

 yellow, palniately veined with 3 very prominent and several inter- 

 mediate veins, each feather veined in addition; the petals, in drying 

 and fading, turn red, and resemble the meshes in the web of a frog's 

 foot; stamens V2 line wide and 6 lines long, versatile, yellow; stigma 

 lobes 4 to 6 lines long, V^ line wide; capsule ovate, broadly winged, 

 not nerved or veined, less than an inch long, not crested, hoary 

 white; calyx also with scattered, fine, long, white hairs. 



This grows on sunny southern slopes in very dry places, blossoms 

 in June, and is by far the handsomest species of the genus. It is 

 vespertine. Rather common in Western Utah and Eastern Nevada 

 at 6,000 feet altitude. Should it prove to be new, I name it CEno- 

 thera Hoivardi, after Mr. A. M. Howard, the gentleman in my party 

 who saw it first. 



EcHiNOCACTUS PAPYRACANTHUS Eng. The flowers are an inch 

 long, opening but little; stigma cleft a line deep into 6 anther-like 

 divisions, papillose on the sides and upper surface; filaments 6 lines 

 long; style almost as long as the petals, Yz a line thick, linear; the 

 flowers open in the morning, and close in the afternoon, but appar- 

 ently "are not afifected by cloudy weather. This grows in alkaline 

 soil, and blooms in May. It is scarce everywhere. 



