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It is precisely on such treacherous grounds that C luteus Dougl., 

 C. venustus Benth, and C. splendens Dougl. were established, and 

 more recently C. Lyoni Gray and C PlunimeriB Greene have been 

 added to the number. Dr. Watson has already suggested that the 

 first two may be confluent, yet in their typical forms they are the 

 most distinct of the set, the first being yellow and the second lilac 

 purple in color. Yet field observation compels the reference of a 

 yellow variety to the lilac-colored species. The other species above 

 named ail belong to the lilac series, differing from each other in the 

 distribution and intensity of the coloration. In this respect typical 

 specimens are sufificienth' distinct, but considering the unreliability 

 of this character it is not impossible that further observation may 

 unite them. 



LiL.^A SUBULATA HBK. A rare plant in the South, and appar- 

 ently the same elsewhere in the State. The only station known to 

 me is the marshy margin of a shallow pond on the farm of Mr. James 

 Stewart, near Colton Fresh plants show some characters not in en- 

 tire accordance with the published diagnosis of the species, which 

 was perhaps drawn from dried specimens. Our plant is an annual, 

 the leaves terete, or a little flattened, about six inches long, sheath- 

 ing at base. Inflorescence axillary, of two forms; an androgynous 

 spike exserted on a peduncle shorter than the leaves, and arising 

 between two sessile ovaries whose filiform styles nearly equal the 

 peduncle. I find no spikes entirely male. The anthers discharge 

 their pollen while the spike is still inclosed in the sheathing bases of 

 the leaves. The radicle fruits mature long before the spicate ones. 



GENERAL NOTES 

 OF A TRIP THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. 



BY ALICE EASTWOOD. 



It was my good fortune the past year, towards the end of May, 

 to travel on horseback through a part of the Great American Des'^rt 

 that has been but little explored. The road followed was a cattle 

 highway from Thompson's Springs, a station on the I). & R. G. W. 

 R. R. in Utah, to Moab, a Mormon town on the Grand River; thence 

 to Monticello, another Mormon settlement at the foot of the Blue 

 Mountains; thence down Montezuma Canon to the San Juan River, 



