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A small plant characterized by the short pod, found other- 

 wise only in two North American species, viz., D. andina and D. 

 oligosperma ; but in both of those species the leaves have strong 

 midribs and are less stellate. In habit it resembles mostZ?. nivalis, 

 but that species has a different pod. It grows at an altitude of 

 3500 m. 



Utah : Marysvale, Tate Mine, 1 894, M. E. Jones, ^g^oam 

 (type in U. S. Nat. Herb.). 



Lesquerella Utahensis sp. nov. 



A tufted perennial : stems ascending, 5-10 cm. (seldom 15 cm.) 

 high ; basal leaves 3-4 cm. long, petioled ; blades oval or obovate, 

 densely and finely stellate ; stem-leaves smaller, oblanceolate or 

 spatulate : petals yellow, about 8 mm. long, with cuneate blades, 

 J4, longer than the oblong sepals : pedicels in fruit ascending, 5- 

 10 mm. long : pod almost spherical or slightly transversely flat- 

 tened, 3-4 mm. wide, finely stellate : style 4-5 mm. long, much 

 longer than the pod. 



This species is related to L. Wardii, i. c, it has the same habit 

 and pubescence and the pod is as in that species somewhat thicker 

 than broad ; but the latter is shorter, rounder, neither elongated 

 nor acute at the apex. L. Utahensis grows at an altitude of 2000- 

 3500 m. 



Utah : American Fork Canon, 1880, Marcus E. Jones, ijj4- 

 (type in herb. N. Y. Bot. Garden); Friser, 1880, 1810 ; Marys- 

 vale, 1884, 5J75^, 5p5c?;/ ; Irelands Ranch, Salina Canon, 5^^/; 

 Canon above Tropic, jji2d. 



Stanleya runcinata sp. nov. 



Stem stout, glabrous : basal leaves about 2 dm. long, lanceo- 

 late in outline, runcinately divided, softly pubescent with long white 

 hairs ; lobes broadly triangular or the lowest ones oblong : stem- 

 leaves ovate to oblanceolate, more glabrous : raceme 1-3 dm. long, 

 many-flowered : sepals linear, about i cm. long and i mm. wide, 

 light yellow, glabrous : petals about _i^ longer ; blades oblanceo- 

 late, about ^ as long as the glabrous claws : filaments glabrous, 

 about twice as long as the sepals : pods almost erect and straight, 

 6-7 cm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, on spreading pedicels about i cm. 

 long. 



This species is perhaps most closely related to 6". pi)inata, but 

 easily distinguished by the lobing of the basal leaves, the straight 



