BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 154 



The roots of Stellaria /amesiana are thickened into a long series 

 of tubers. 



Vicia exigua occurs as far north as Holden (100 miles south of 

 Salt Lake City.) It has not been reported further north than St. 

 George before. 



The stems of Astragalus junceus are very seldom "solitary." 

 They usually grow in clumps of twenty to a hundred. 



A. pktiis var. filifolius is found at Frisco and Milford, the western 

 border of Utah, one hundred miles north of St. George. 



Cercocarpus ledi/olius, var. intricatus. I propose this name for 

 Watson's C intricatus, which cannot rank as a species, as Dr. Parry 

 has shown already; but I think it deserves to rank as a variety and 

 not as a "form" (Parry), because of the altitude at which it occurs, 

 6000 feet, and the apparent distinctness of the extreme forms. This 

 is from i to 3 feet high, densely and intricately branched, usually 

 depressed; leaves hnear. 6 to 12 lines long, 1 line wide, very revolute, 

 sparsely pubescent, flowers and truit two and three times smaller than 

 the typical form. Its present known range is from American Fork 

 Canon to Cedar City. It appears to grow on rocks almost exclu- 

 sively. Watson found it near the mouth of American Fork Canon, 

 where it occurs in the extremme form only. Higher up it occurs 

 more sparingly, and in less rocky places shows an insensible transi- 

 tion to C. ledifolius. I have found it as high as 11 000 feet altitude, 

 growing along \w'\\\\ Juniperus communis, var. humilis, Eng. {J. commu- 

 nis, var. alpinus of most authors), several hundred feet above Primula 

 Parryi. near Synthyris pinnatijida, Ranunculus adoneus, etc.; but its 

 usu il range is at about 6000 feet altitude. 



Who described Tellima tenella 1 Watson gives it as of Hooker 

 and Bentham (King's Exp. p. 95), Watson and Brewer give it as of 

 Watson (Fl. Cal. V. I. p. 198), and Rothrock gives it as of Walp. 

 (Wheeler Rep. p. 1x7). The Rocky Mountain Cratcegus. — I have 

 spent much time in studying this plant, and have collected a full suite 

 of specimens, from the buds to the fruit. The leaves on branches 

 which bear flowers are lanceolate or ovate lanceolate and acuminate, 

 narrowly cuneate at base ; other leaves vary from acuminate to barely 

 acute, lanceolate to broadly oval, cuneate or tapering at base ; petals 

 orbicular, entire ; calyx segments linear or linear-lanceolate usually 

 with a broad base, purple, glandular ciliate ; bracts filiform, purple, 

 deciduous ; thorns almost none, or abundant. Ribes aureum is 

 abundant at St. George. There is a variety of it growing here that 

 \\a.?, yellow fruit and a disagreeable taste. I have Ribes kptanthum, 

 var brachyanthum from Frisco, as well as Lake Point. Mentzelia 

 lievicaulis occurs as far south as Frisco. 



The fruit of Cymopterus glaucus is densely pubescent ; stamens 

 purple. 



C. longipes is abundant at Juab, and occurs at Frisco. 



I have another sj^ecies of Cymopterus that appears to be new 

 also. 



The petals of Orogenia lincari/olia are white. It blooms close to 



