304 BOTAint. 
Var. Fendlerianum, Bentli. Larger; leaves broad, 1-1 long and 
4- 5" wide; involucres 2" long in a broad loose cyme. — Collected in New 
Mexico by Fendler. Nevada specimens, from Bloomer and Torrey, connect 
with the following form. 
Var. CONFERTIFLORUM, T. & G. Shrubby (1° high) and leafy ; leaves 
narrowly oblong ; flowers crowded in the usually contracted cymes. — From 
Utah (Stansbury) to Oregon and Northern California. 
Var. LEPTOPHYLLUM, T. & G. Leafy ; leaves narrowly linear with the 
margins strongly revolute, glabrate ; cyme short, usually full-flowered and 
crowded. — Utah (Gunnison) and New Mexico. 
Var. LEPTOCLADON, T. & G. More slender ; leaves linear ; cyme loosely 
panicled; involucres sometimes unilateral from the abortion of the second 
branchlet. — Green River, Utah, (Gunnison.) 
Eriogonum brevicaule, Nutt. T. Sf G., i.c, p. 172. Csespitose-shrubby, 
the woody leafy branches very short or depressed, bearing a naked elongated 
herbaceous scapelike peduncle; leaves l-2¥ long and 1-5" broad, linear, 
oblong-linear or narrowly spatulate-oblanceolate, attenuate into a slender peti- 
ole, white-woolly on both sides or becoming glabrous above, the margins at 
length mostly revolute ; scapes rigid, 3-10' high, the cyme repeatedly um- 
beled or trichotomous, calyculately bracted at the nodes ; peduncles and the 
5- toothed oblong or cyathiform-campanulate involucres (1^—2" long) glabrous 
or soon glabrate ; calyx glabrous within, white or rose-color or sometimes 
bright yellow, the segments obovate-oblopg and nearly equal ; ovary as in the 
preceding. — Cyme ample, either fastigiate or very open, the bracts short, 
connate, and white-woolly within. Approaching some forms of the last. 
From the head-waters of the Platte to New Mexico, Utah and Montana; 
Southern Utah, (Palmer.) Only in the Wahsatch ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; 
June, July. Flowers mostly bright yellow ; the leafy stems only 1-3' but 
the slender peduncles 6-12' long ; the branching woody caudex often very 
stout. (1,027.) 
Eriogonum racemosum, Nutt. T. Sf G., I c, p. 175. (§ Virgata. See 
Appendix, under EriogonecE.) Perennial, floccose-woolly ; scapes solitary or 
few from the summit of the subterranean caudex, stout, 1-3° high, naked or 
leafy-bracted at the lower nodes ; leaves 1-3' long, on long (3-4') petioles, 
ovate or oblong, sometimes subcordate, white-woolly beneath ; involucres 
tubular-campanulate, obtusely 5-toothed, many-flowered, numerous, appressed 
