644 Rydberg : Species from Western United States 



taller habit, the more branched cyme, the more acuminate sepals, 

 which in the type specimens are not reflexed, and the petals, which 

 are not retuse or emarginate as in that species. 



California: Casa Diabolo, 1895, /. JT. Congdon (type in the 

 herbarium of T. S. Brandegee). 



Mertensia tubiflora 



Perennial ; stem 2—3 dm. high, glabrous striate, and somewhat 

 angled, branched above ; basal leaves oblanceolate, short petioled; 

 stem-leaves sessile, lanceolate to ovate, about 4 cm. long and 1-2 

 cm. wide, glabrate, except the hispid ciliolate margins, muricate 

 above, obtuse ; panicle contracted ; pedicels very slender and 

 drooping, about i cm. long, strigulose ; calyx slightly strigose, 

 about 4 mm. long, cleft half-way into oblong-lanceolate acutish 

 lobes ; corolla 13-15 mm. long ; tube about i o mm. long and 3 mm. 

 in diameter, more than twice as long as the limb ; the latter cam- 

 panulate with very short lobes ; nutlets very strongly muricate. 



This species combines the general habit of M. lanceolata with a 

 corolla which is most like that of JZ oblongifolia. 



Wyoming : Headwaters of the Tongue River, Big Horn 

 Mountains, July, 1898, F. Tivccdy, iig. 



Symphoricarpos Utahensis 



Syniplioricarpos nioiitaiins W^ats. King's Exp. 5: 132 partly; 

 not H.B. K. 



Shrub a meter or more high, with brownish bark ; leaves 

 broadly ovate, more or less rounded at both ends, obtuse or often 

 mucronate, often coarsely sinuately toothed, pubescent when 

 young, glabrate in age, 3-4 cm. long and 2-3 cm. wide ; flowers 

 in terminal one-sided, drooping short spikes, or with smaller 

 clusters in the upper axils ; corolla somewhat funnelform, about 

 8 mm. long. 



This resembles most .S". racemos^is in inflorescence and leaves, 

 but differs in the form of the corolla. The inflorescence, the 

 larger and less pubescent leaves and the size of the bush separate 

 it from S. rotimdifolius. 



Utah: Logan, August, 1895, P. ^. Rydberg {l^y'^€)\ Wah- 

 satch Mountain, 1869, .S". Watson, .//j, in part.* 



* Watson includes under this number not less than three distinct forms. Of these 

 one belongs to this species, one from Virginia Mountain, Nevada, to S. oi-eophilus, and 

 the third from the Uintahs to the next or an undescribed species. 



