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sliort petioled, pinnatifidly 3-7-lobed, lobes oblong or linear, somewhat gla- 
brous above, dotted with conspicuous glands; flowers on short peduncles, 
yellow, 1' in diameter; calyx glandular-tomentose, with broad and obtuse 
segments ; achenium 3" long, glabrous or slightly hairy, striate ; style 
2' long, densely plumose. — A handsome shmb, 1-6° high ; the trunk cov- 
ered with an abundant loose shreddy cream-colored bark ; the wood light- 
colored, hard, very compact and fine grained ; blooming abundantly in May 
and retaining its fruit until October ; well worthy of cultivation. Northwest- 
ern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Found on Antelope Butte, 
Nevada, and frequent on the foot-hills above the Salt Lake Valley ; 5-6,000 
feet altitude. (315.) 
Dryas octopetala, L. Leaves oblong, oblong-ovate or subcordate, ob- 
tuse, crenately serrate, white- to mentose beneath, veins prominent and margins 
revolute ; sepals linear-lanceolate ; flowers white or yellowish. — From Green- 
land south to Labrador and Canada and west to Beliring Strait, and on the 
alpine peaks of the Rocky Mountains southward to Colorado. Found on the 
Uinta Mountains, Utah; 11-12,000 feet altitude; August. The flowers are 
decidedly yellow and the sepals are variable in form, the length often scarcely 
twice the width. It would seem that D. Dru7nmondii should share the fate 
of D. integrifoUa. (316.) 
Geum macropuyllum, Willd. New Hampshire,.Canada, and the west- 
ern lake region ; from Alaska to California, (Mono Pass, Bolander ;) New 
Mexico, (Fendler.) Found on stream banks in Ruby and Thousand Spring 
Valleys, Nevada, and iii the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June-Septem- 
ber. (317.) 
Geum trifloeum, Pursh. From Newfoundland to Northern New York, 
Illinois and Missouri, to latitude 60°, and in the mountains westward ; re- 
ported from Washington Territory, Cahfornia, Northern Arizona, (Ives,) and 
Colorado. Found in the Battle Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas, Utah ; 
7-8,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (318.) 
Geum Rossii, Seringe. Scape 1 -flowered, 3-8' high, shghtly pubes- 
cent above, somewhat 2-leaved ; radical leaves interruptedly pinnate, rather 
glabrous, minutely ciliate, leaflets ovate or cuneiform, 2-3-lobed or entire ; 
flowers erect ; calyx-lobes ovate, spreading, shorter than the roundish petals ; 
carpels in a sessile head, minutely hirsute ; styles persistent, glabrous, not 
exserted in fruit.— Melville Island, Behring Strait, and the Rocky Mountains 
