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of a few linear, acute, fleshy, not scarious scales, 2 to 3 lines long, 

 distinct to the base; pedicels in fruit 2 lines long, filiform; flowers 5 

 to 8 from each ray; fruit 2 to 2^ lines long, broadly oblong trun- 

 cate at each end, face concave only, about J 3 of a circle, less than a 

 line wide; oil tubes 3 between the ribs and 6 on the commissure; 

 lateral wings a line wide, dorsal Yi less, all thick and corky for the 

 size of the fruit. It is a close congener of C. longipes but differs in 

 the size and division of the leaves, white flowers, small and simply 

 concave fruit, and habitat. It is found only on clayey alkaline soil 

 in the centers of the valleys. The fruit face is that of C. montanus. 

 Deep Creek Valley, 5,000 feet altitude, June, 1891. A feature of 

 the flowers that is more or less common to all the genus is in the 

 petals, which are triangular lanceolate from a broad base, thick, 

 deeply sulcate, barely acute, with incurved apex, so that the tip 

 touches the disk between the contiguous edges of the petals; anthers 

 black purple, reniform cordate, lying on the recurved filament 

 next the edges of the petals like seeds in a five-celled pod, just 

 bursting forth; they are very pretty; the filament straightens and 

 thrusts the anther ^ a line beyond the petal; it then bursts; style 

 not exserted at first. 



^ Cymopterus longipes Watson. This plant is acaulescent at 

 first and the yellow flowers are sessile in a rosette of green leaves, 

 then the flower stalk lengthens always, is erect, and, after blooming, 

 droops till the fruit is pendent, then as the fruit ripens the stem 

 (peduncle) usually becomes erect again. The scape usually 

 lengthens also, but not always. Abundant in the Wasatch and less 

 common westward. 



Orogenia linearifolia Watson. The Indians are fond of the 

 raw bulbs. The flowers are white and the peduncles decumbent. 

 This is one of the very earliest bloomers, and, though common, is 

 seldom seen, as the plant is hardly visible when in fruit and even 

 that disappears in a few weeks with the leaves. 



TowNSENDiA SCAPIGERA Eaton. , The flowers open between 9 

 and ID in the morning and close between 5 and 6 in the afternoon. 

 It is frequent. 



I think that Gray has confounded two well-marked species of 

 Bigelovia in his cosmopolitan B. graveoleyis. One has a thyrsiform 

 inflorescence, cylindric campanulate corolla with reflexed or widely 



