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long and oval; leaflets ovate to oblanceolate, six lines long; 

 leaves three inches long and calyx softly pubescent and whole 

 plant otherwise glabrous; peduncles six inches or more long, 

 erect and as stout as the stems; calyx campanulate with tube 

 two lines long, the short triangular teeth one-third as long as 

 tube; flowers not seen; pedicels stout, a line long; bracts very 

 small; many stemmed from a woody root, one and one-half feet 

 high, but base of stem bent, branched below. This at first sight 

 seems to be very distinct from A. collirms but I cannot refer it 

 elsewhere. 



Potentilla i^Ivesia) Kingii, var. incerta, n. var. Densely white 

 silky throughout; leaflets obovate or ovate, densely imbricated; 

 leaves three inches long, more slender than the type. Other- 

 wise as in the type. Alkaline soil in the middle of Steptoe 

 Valley E- Nevada, 5700 feet altitude, July 13, 1891. I am not 

 able to compare this with Potentilla eremica, Coville which from 

 the description would seem to be the same, but this is manifestly 

 only a variety of the type as it shades into it. 



Cymopteyiis pia-purascens (Gray) C. montanus xQlX. piirpiirascens 

 Gray Bot. Ives. I cannot think that this plant which is so com- 

 mon from one end of Utah to the other and covers so wide a 

 range is a form of the Rocky Mountain species which so far is 

 not known west of the mountains of Colorado. 



^ Cypnioteriis Fe7idleri Ordiy . This species belorgs to my sec- 

 lion Coloptera and to it should be referred C Parryi (C. & R.), 

 C. decipiens Jones. I was misled by Watson's unwarranted 

 reference of one of my specimens to C. Fendleri ox I should have 

 recognized the true place of C. Parryi in the synonymy, 



^' Frasera speciosa Douglas var. scabra n. var. Closely resemb- 



ling the type except that the root leaves are six to eight inches 

 long, one and one-half inch or less wide; whole plant ashy 

 scabrous even to the petals; the leaves are ver}^ nervose (seven 

 of the nerves being very prominent), thick; petals oblong, three- 

 quarters inch long, very obtuse and rounded; glands as in the 

 type but very coarse, three to four lines long, attached below the 

 middle and running nearly to the base, oblanceolate, acute at 

 base, coarsely fringed; scales at base of petals coarse; anthers 



