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Grand Roude prairie, (Niittall ! ;) Utah Valley, (Mrs. Carnngton.) Sumtnit 
of ridge on Anteloi)e Island, Great Salt Lake, and on the ridge between 
Utah Valley and the Valley of Salt Lake ; 5,500-6,000 feet elevation ; June, 
July. (596.) 
Balsamorriiiza MACRoniYLLA, -Nutt. Sparingly pubescent and slightly 
glandular-roughened, at length nearly smooth ; radical leaves 6-10/ long, 
broadly ovate, long-petioled, pinnately parted ; the divisions oblong-ovate or 
broadly lanceolate, often 1' wide, entire or more or less incised ; scapes 15- 
20' high, monocephalous, with a pair of petioled pinnately-lobed leaves near 
the base ; heads very large ; involucral scales in about 3 series, lanceolate, 
the outer ones foliaccous and often reflexed ; rays 2' long and often 6-8'/ 
broad, the ends entire or slightly toothed.— Toward the sources of the 
Colorado of the West, in the Rocky Mountains," (Nuttall ;) California. 
Abundant in the Wahsatch Mountains at 4,500-6,000 feet elevation; May- 
July. The leaves vary in shape exceedingly, being sometimes slightly lobed, 
and occasionally even entire. (597.) 
Balsamorrhiza sagittata, Nutt. Canescent and minutely tomentose ; 
radical leaves on long petioles, cordate-ovate or somewhat hastate, acute, 
entire, 4-8' long, 2-4' wide ; stems 9-15' high, bearing a few small scattered 
oblong-spatulate leaves, monocephalous, or with 2-3 heads ; involucre white- 
woolly ; rays very large, entire or toothed.— Mountains of Oregon and Cali- 
fornia to Colorado; Western Nevada, (Anderson! Bloomer!) Foot-hills 
and mountain sides from Carson City to the Wahsatch ; 4,500-7,000 feet 
elevation ; April-July. (598.) 
RuDBECKiA occ:dkxtalis, Nutt. Smooth or nearly so; stems 2-4° 
high, simple ; leaves ovate-acuminate, entire or coarsely toothed, ample, 5-7' 
long, 3-4' broad, 3-5 nerved at the base, and abruptly narrowed into a short 
winged petiole ; heads solitary or few, on long peduncles ; the involucre 1-2' 
broad, of nnmcrous oblong-Ihiear unequal foliaccous spreading or reflexed 
scales; rays none ; receptacle much elongated ; disk purplish-brown, conical- 
oblong, in n-iiit lis Uiick as one's finger and half as long; chaff about the 
]cngt!i of the mature acheuia ; pappus roroniform, toothed.— Oregon, and 
Rocky :\rounlains. East Humboldt :^[oHntains to the Wahsatch; 6-7,500 
feet elevation; July-September. (599.) 
IlELiANTiirs ExiLis, Gray. Pwc. Amer. Acad, 6. 545. Annual, scab- 
rous or hirsute ; stems slender, a foot or more high, branching; leaves oppo- 
