First Report on the Flora of Wyoming. 149 



PRIMULACE^. 



Primula farinosa, L. Sp. PI. 143 (1753). 



Very rare ; not found by the writer, but three fine specimens 

 received from Mr. Houghton, who collected them on the Little 

 Laramie River, June 8, 1894 (No. 187). 

 Primula Parryi, Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. II, xxxiv, 257. 



A very rare plant ; collected by B. C. Buftum in the Wind River 

 Mountains, July 21, 1892. 

 Androsace filiformis, Retz. Obs. ii, 10. 



Very abundant in wet, caved in places on mountain streams. 

 Pole Creek, June 27, 1895 (No. 1318); La Plata Mines, August 23, 

 1895 (No. 1848). 

 Androsace occidentalis, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 137 (1814), 



Common on dry creek banks, especially in cattle wallows where 

 other vegetation has been killed. 



Horse Creek, June 9, 1894 (No. 194); Centennial Valley, June 8, 

 1895 (No. 1244) 



Androsace septentrionalis, Lam. 111. t. 98, f. 2. 



On moist hillsides at both the higher and the lower altitudes. 

 Union Pass, August 13, 1894 (No. 1030); Table Mountain, June 

 27, 1895 (No. 1382). 



Androsace septentrionalis subumbellata, n. var. 



A diminutive alpine form may receive this name. Plant only ^ 

 to 1 inch high ; leaves mostly entire ; scapes few and one flowered, 

 or, if umbelliferous only three to five ; calyx shorter than the 

 corolla, its lobes noticeably shorter than its tube. 



On a grassy hillside near the summit of Union Peak, August 13, 

 1894 (No. 998). 

 Dodecatheon Meadia, L. Sp. PL 144 (1753). 



On the partly shaded banks of small brooklets in the Laramie 

 Hills. 



Pole Creek, June 27, 1895 (No. 1329). 

 Dodecatheon pauciflorum, Greene. 



The wet meadows in the Laramie River bottoms, in some places, 

 are so densely covered with this plant that at a distance they sug- 

 gest immense lakes of purplish-blue water. June 19, 1894 (No. 

 268); Centennial Valley, June 9, 1895 (No. 1312). 



