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snow in the early spring; is very evanescent. Within a few weeks 

 after the plant appears, it has bloomed, fruited, dried up, and blown 

 away, leaving no trace behind save a few seeds in the sand. I have 

 the flowers from Scipio (30 miles north of Fillmore) and plenty of 

 good fruit from City Creek Canon where it is common. The leaves 

 are frequentlv 6 lines wide. Peucedanum simplex is occasionally branch- 

 ed as well as leafy. The fruit is never "orbicular" in any Utah speci 

 mens I have seen It is abundant here. 



P. millefolium has yellow flowers, not "vvhite." It occurs in the 

 Wasatch and south to Frisco. 



The fruit of P villosum I have in fine condition. The oil-tubes 

 are either wanting, or one in the intervals and two outside of the ribs. 

 On the commissure are numerous grooves but the oil-iuhes appear to be 

 wanting or imperfect. I have P. Newberryi. fr an Frisco.- The fruit 

 varies greatly. 



The fruit of P. Nevadrnse is glabrous ; varies from oval to narrow- 

 ly oblong, always emarginate at base in my specimens -Marcus E. 

 Jones, Salt Lake City. 



Nabalus Roanensis, n. sp. — Stem simple (3 to 12 inches high), 

 hirsute sparingly, and on the veins on the under side of the leaves and 

 the peduncles abundandy, with long, transparent hairs ; heads in 

 short axillary racemes forming a close raceined [janicle ; leaves i^ to 

 2 inches long, triangular halberd sha[)ed, acuminate, coarsely toothed, 

 on slender petioles, the lower 2 or 3 inches long, and winged above; 

 involucre 10 to 13 flowered, of 7 to 10 light green linear scales, with 

 dark obtuse tips, hairy in a line along the middle, and 3 or 4 dark 

 green, triangular ovate, bract-Hke, densely hairy ones, at base; pappus 

 straw color. 



The leaves resemble those of N'. alatiis, the flowers are somewhat 

 like those of N nanus. 



Found sparingly on the summit of Roan mountain, N. C, growing 

 in the clefts of precipices —J. W. Chickering. 



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The Gazette for 1881. — This number closes Vol. V, and very 

 soon No. I of Vol. VI will appear. We take this opportunitv of urg 

 ing our friends to renew their subscripdons at once and to aid us in 

 obtaining as many new ones as possible. The long lists of botanists 

 in our Directories shrink to a very small per cent, upon the pages of 

 our subscription book. For the credit of American Botany we ous[ht 

 to be able to generously support two modest journals. 



