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little surpassing the subulate calyx lobes, hardly acute; flowers 

 many; bracts ovate and acuminate to linear and acute; corolla 

 lobes five, about an inch long, purple; stamen tube a line long or 

 none, yellow as in almost all other forms of the genus, purple 

 ring present or absent; leaves oblanceolate six inches long, short 

 or rather long petioled, entire; scapes twelve to eighteen inches 

 high; whole plant glabrous and glandless, and the leaves not 

 apiculate. Colorado Springs, May 30, 1878. 



All the Colorado specimens in my herbarium have acute 

 anthers, and all my Colorado and Utah specimens have the 

 capsule splitting into five valves through the base of the style. 

 There is no trace of an operculum large or minute falling off" like 

 a lid. as is the case in my California plants. Nearly all my 

 Utah plants have obtuse anthers that are linear or larger at apex 

 than below, while the opposite is the case with my Colorado 

 specimens. 



My other Colorado specimens were collected in Kngelmann 

 Caiion, June 14, 1879. They are like the above in the many 

 flowers, bracts, corolla, and calyx, and glabrous throughout, but 

 the stems are two feet high, leaves a foot long, linear oblancelate, 

 or a little broader, almost acute, petiole very short, calyx 

 oblong ovate, and just exceeding the calyx lobes, or on other 

 stems from the same root the capsule is nearly cylindric, being a 

 little broader at the base and one-half an inch long; in other 

 plants from the same place the calyx is cylindric and narrow, 

 one-half an inch long. I have a few specimens from the same 

 locality that have broadly oblanceolate, short leaves with almost 

 no petiole, and repand toothed, few flowers, otherwise as above, 

 but fruit not seen. 



My Utah plants No. 2015 have linear-oblancelate leaves, 

 with petiole half the length of leaves, and broadly or scarcely 

 margined, whole leaf two to four inches long; scapes six to twelve 

 inches long; flowers four-merous, purple or light-colored; stamen 

 tube none; calyx lobes subulate; bracts lanceolate to linear and 

 very acute; capsule ovate or urceolate, not quite equaling the 

 calyx lobes, the five valves also notched. The whole plant is 

 perfectly glabrous. Collected at Silver Lake, 9000 feet altitude, 

 July 30, 1880, in American Fork Canon, Utah. Another plant 



