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found only in the Uintas and in Bear River Valley, Utah ; G-7,000 feet alti- 
tude ; July. Plate XXIII. Fig. 6. A spikelet ; natural size. Fig. 8. Calyx, 
with matured fruit ; enlarged two diameters. (852.) 
Var. (!) FULVOCANESCENS. Low, subcasspitosc and certainly 2)crciiiiial : 
stems several, 1-8' high, erect or ascending, hirsute ; leaves i-2' long, ol>o- 
vate or oblong- spatulate with very narrow petioles, obtuse, tonientose with a, 
soft silky pubescence and hirsute ; raceme short and tenninnl or coiiijxmiMl, 
i-3' long, the clusters few-several-flowrnMl, densely liirsnic w illi yellow oi- 
brownish hairs, the flowers distinctly pcdicelled and IVe(jiieiit ly siibninlx'led, 
with inconspicuous narrow-lanceolate or more I'r(M[uenlly ovnte jhkI obtuse oi- 
sometimes obsolete bractlcts ; flowers turning ])i-own in dryinL; nnd \v'\i\\ llie 
fruit nearly as in the last, but the caly\-lo1)es rather j);ui-()wei- less en- 
larged in fruit. — Very probably a distinct species, but it seems sometimes to 
approach small forms of the last too nearly. It is 632 Feiidler, from New 
Mexico, (E. fulvocanescens, Gray, Ms. in Herb.,) and IGT, r>22 and i'ul 
Fre'mont, (1844,) probably collected in Utah. Fre<jnent in the nionntains 
through Nevada, from the base to nearly the hi<rliest peaks, and also found in 
the Wahsatch; 5-11,000 feet ahitude ; May-Septend)cr. Plati: XXIII. 
Fig. 7. A spikelet ; natural size. (853.) 
Eritrichium Kingii. Annual, hispid with spnadinir hairs, erect, 
branched, 4-8' high; leaves broadly spatulate, obtuse, alleinate, the upper 
oblong or ovate, sessile and clasping; flowers in terminal somewhat biliircatc 
racemes, very shortly pcdicelled, the lowermost only l)raeted; calyx hirsute 
with yellow hairs, 5-parted, the lol)es oblomr, ol)1nse, e((nalinL^ the eoi-olla- 
tube; corolla white, the Yunh broad (3-4") and expanded, the throat with 
conspicuous obtuse scales; nutlets 1-^" long, ovate, o1)tnse, ruin.Mdy \ . rrneov,., 
attached to the very short style above the ])ase, not at all mari;in<Ml upon the 
back but the edge rounded.— Allied to the pree.'dinLS Init very distinct. In 
Truckee Pass and in the Trinity :\Ionntain.s Nevada : !.:,oi ^ (;,( h h i fr. t alti- 
tude; May. Plate XXIII. Fi<r. ::. A plant: natural si/<'. Fi- 1. l-"lowrr, 
laid open; enlarged four diameters. Fig. T), Calyx and matur.' Irnit ; en- 
larged two diameters. (854.) 
Eritrichium fulvum, A. DC. VC. Pro Jr. 10. 1 :;•_>. ( .lAve.v./Z.v fuu/la, 
Nutt., Ms.) Annual, low (I-IO') ami slender, hir>nfe with mo>lIy .spread- 
ing hairs: stems usually solitary, erect, l.ranclie.l from the Im-.- uv more c(,m- 
monly simple and loo.sely panicled above: leave> nio>tly radn.d. n-^ulatr. 
