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west in the other ranges, also Mt. Ibapah in the Deep Creek Moun- 

 tains, Jeff Davis Peak and the Schell Creek Mountains in east- 

 ern Nevada at high elevations, and probably in the East 

 Humboldt Mountains; rare in Nevada and the Sierras of Cali- 

 fornia, also northward to the Arctic regions. Much esteemed in 

 cultivation where it is bluer. 



A. chrysantha. Gray. A. leptoceravax. JIava Gray Pi. Wright 

 2, 9. A. chrysantha, Gray Proc. A. A. S., 8, 621. Flowers 

 golden yellow throughout, one to two inches wide, spurs much 

 longer than the sepals and very slender; sepals lanceolate, less 

 than an inch long; petals as above. 



lyower elevations 6000 to 8000 feet altitude in Colorado, and 

 higher altitudes southward to 10,500 feet in Arizona. Rocky 

 Mountains of Colorado from Colorado Springs south through New 

 Mexico and Arizona. Not yet known in Utah. This appears 

 to hybridize with cceridea., the flowers being yellow or tinged 

 with blue and spurs shorter. Should it become necessary to 

 recognize the varietal name, this will become A. fiava (Gray). 



A. tojigissima, Gray. Flowers yellow,'spurs filiform, four 

 inches long, and of about the same width throughout, petals 

 nearly equaling the lanceolate sepals, elongated-spatulate. May 

 be a form of the above. 

 ^ Northern Mexico, Palmer. 



+->■ +^ Spars short and thick, six lines long or less, souiewhaf 

 hooked at the end, not longer than the small sepals, 

 nectary large, fioiuers smalt, not eveii an inch wide 

 and often very small, nodding or ascending , yelloWy 

 but often tinged zoith red or blue. 



A. flavescens, Watson King's Rep. 5, 10. Sepals lanceolate 

 to oval, six to eight lines long; petal-limb somewhat dilated, 

 about equaling the spur and nearly as long as the stamens, four 

 lines wide, anthers elliptical-oblong, when the flowers are very 

 small all the parts are small in proportion, except the stamens, 

 which remain the same. All but the leaves often pubescent. 



Six thousand to nine thousand feet altitude along streams in 

 very wet, exposed, and boggy places, rarely at high elevations, 

 most abundant at low elevations, caiions of the Wasatch from 



