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y Cryptanthe muriculata montana. Resembling the species 

 but smaller, erect, with few and rather strict branches, the inflores- 

 cence sparse when fully evolute ; fruiting calyx 5-6 mm. long, tips 

 of sepals spreading or merely open, the midrib narrow but dis- 

 tinct : nutlets very closely and minutely muriculate, the tooth-like 

 points (as seen under the microscope) curved ascending. 



This is clearly related to C. muriculata (Gray) Gi'eene, but 

 whether its characters are such that it may be considered distinct 

 further collections only can settle. C. muriculata is of the far west 

 and southwest while this is of the interior. Its smaller size, closely 

 and finely muriculate nutlets, which have more rounded sides, will 

 serve to distinguish it. The specimens before me are from Granger, 

 June 13, 1898, where they were growing on a rocky ridge in the 

 protection of the undershrubs. Specimens by Mr. M. E. Jones, from 

 Silver Reef, Utah, May 4, 1894, distributed as Krynitzkia Watsoni 

 Gray are probably the same. 



Allocarya Henderson!. Simple at the base but sparsely 

 branched above, erect, 2-4 dm. high, slender, sparsely and rather 

 softly strigose-pubescent throughout: leaves broadly linear, 4-6 cm. 

 long, 3-6 mm. broad, acutish : spikes naked, at length long and 

 slender, the uppermost geminate with a floret in the fork: fruiting 

 calyx short pediceled, its sepals linear and moderately strigose- 

 hispid, about 5 mm. long: corolla 5-6 mm. in diameter, the throat 

 nearly closed by the comparatively large emarginate crests: nut- 

 lets ovate, sub-acute, 2-3 mm. long, very closely and finely muric- 

 ulate, with a few small, rounded papillse interspersed, moderately 

 carinate on the ventral side only. 



This excellent species I have only seen from western Idaho and 

 eastern Washington, represented by the following specimens: L. F. 

 Henderson, Potlatch River, Idaho, May 31, 1895, distributed as 

 Krynitzkia muriculata Gray; A. D. E. Elmer, Pullman, Wash. 

 June, 1896, distributed as Krynitzkia Torreyana Gray ; A. A. & 

 E. Gertrude Heller, Lewiston, Idaho, April 30, 1896, distributed 

 as Allocarya Scouleri (H. & A.) Greene. 



That this is an Allocarya! think cau scarcely be questioned, but 

 it must be admitted^ that in habit it greatly resembles the Cryp- 

 tanthes. Its nearest ally is probably A. Scouleri, but from tha^ 



