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cases; stamens just exsert; capsule clavate, stipitate, sparsely 

 villous and short tomentose; seeds smooth, favose, obovate- 

 oblong. 



Another form collected and distributed by me as No. 4270, 

 collected at Bowie, Ariz., September iS, 1884, has leaves 

 narrowly to broadly lanceolate, apparently glaucous, but really 

 minutely tomentose, pilose on midrib and young shoots; two 

 feet high; flowers twice as broad as usual, an inch long and 

 enlarging at a point two lines above the base; uppermost leaves 

 linear lanceolate, entire and very acute; lower leaves sharply and 

 irregularly serrate; capsules glandular-pubescent, short stalked 

 or nearly sessile; calyx lobes triangular and acute, nearly 

 equaling the petals; stamens long or shortly exsert, unequal. 



I see nothing in the venation of the leaves that is of 

 specific value in any forms of Zauschneria that I know. 



DODECATHEON. 



This genus has received considerable attention from Dr. 

 Gray, E. L. Greene, and Mrs. Brandegee. Dr. Gray thought 

 he had found a new character by which to separate species, and 

 E. E- Greene amplified Dr. Gray's species considerably. I am 

 not in a position to throw much light on the Pacific Coast 

 species, and I leave them to others, but I am very familiar with 

 most of the forms of the Great Basin and of Colorado. Mr. Greene, 

 in Pittonia ii, 72, says, under the head of D. paiicifloriim, " The 

 fruit of this common Rocky Mountain Dodecatheon was not 

 known until I obtained it last year (1889)." This is not correct, 

 as I collected and distributed the flowers and fruit of the Colorado 

 forms in 1878 under m}^ No. 131 in twenty different sets. I 

 again sent them out in 1879 from Colorado. The Utah forms I 

 distributed also in 1880 under my No. 2015. I now have 

 both the flower and fruit of some of my original .specimens. 



So far as the plants east of the Sierras are concerned I doubt 

 if any of them deserve varietal rank, unless it be one Utah form. 

 Dr. Gray seems to have given the plants of Colorado no attention 

 unless he considers them all to belong to the tj^pe of D. Meadia E- 



Dodecatheon Meadia E- In the fruit retained by me in my No. 

 131 from Colorado the capsule is broadly elliptical ovate, and a 



