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Lappula deflexa auiericana (Gray) Greene, Pittouia, ii, 183 (1891); Ecliinosper- 

 vutm dcjiexum americamim Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad, xvii, 224 (1882). 



ily specimens belong to a form Avitli sliort, broad leaves and small liowors. Kare: 

 Lead City, altitude 1,600 m., .Inly (> (Xo. 889). 



Lappiila floribuuda (Lchm.) Gr<'eno. IMttonia, ii, 182 (1891); Kcirnutupivmitm Jlori- 

 binichim Lehm. I'ng. ii, 24 (1830). 



Tlie common form lias distinctly pinnately nerved leaves. Hot Springs, altitude 

 1,100 m., .June 13; Elk Canyon, altitude 1,200 m., .Tune 29; Custer, altitude 1,700m., 

 July 16 (No. 890), 



At Oreville, altitude 1,6")!) m.,,Tuly 16, a form was collected wliicli differs, in hav- 

 ing much tbiclcer, narrowly lanceolate leaves, •with !i jirominent inidrih but obsolete 

 lateral veins (No. 891). 



At Kochford, altitude 1,650 m., July 11, a plant was collected, which I also refer 

 here, although it differs considerably from the common form. It was collected in 

 Hower only, and as the fruit is necessary for full identification. I leave it with this 

 species. The plant is tall, 1 to 2 m. high, branched from an apparently perennial 

 root, making big, bushy clumps of a dozen stems or more. The upper parts of the 

 ])lant are yellowish silky, the lower somewhat strigose; the lower leaves spatulate, 

 the upper lanceolate, thickish, with a prominent midrib, tlie lateral veins obsolete 

 (No. 892). 



Lappula redowskii occideiitalis (Wats.) Eydberg, Contr. Nat. Herb. iii. 170 

 (1895); Juliinospermnm 7'edoirskii occidentale (Wats.) Bot. King Surv. 246 (1871). 



Some of the specimens resemble L. lappula in having a larger, more campanulate 

 corolla and being more branched from the base and more leafy. The immature fruit 

 sliows characters which place it with L.redon'slM. Edgemont, altitude 1,0.50 m., 

 ^lay 27; Hot Springs, altitude 1,100 m., June 15 (No. 576). 



The conunon form w.as collected at Hot Springs, altitude 1,100 m., .Tune 13; Her- 

 mosa, altitude 1,050 m., June 23; Custer, altitude 1,700 m., .Tuly 16 (No. 577). 



Oreocarya glomerata (Pursh) Greene. Pittouia, i, 58 (1887); Cytioglossinn glomera- 

 iinn Pursh, El. ii, 729 (1814). 



High table-lands and hills: Hot Springs, altitude 1,100 ni., .June 13; Whitewood, 

 altitude 1,100 m., July 7 (No. 893). 



Cryptauthe pattersoni (Gray) Greene, Pittouia, i, 120 (1887) ; KriinUzlia pnlleri^oni 

 Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. xx. 268 (1885). 



The seeds arc brown-spotted and less attenuate than in C. fendleri, l)nt otlierwise 

 as in that species. The leaves are .also broader. Lead City, altitude 1,600 m., .July 6; 

 Kochford, altitude 1,700 m., July 12 (Xo, 894). 



No. 895 is a small Cryptanthe, perhaps nearly related, but there are no fruits in 

 the collection, hence it can not be determined. It looks very like some specimens in 

 the National Herbarium labeled Knjniid,ia affinis, but it may be an undeveloped 

 form of nearly any of the related species. Buckhorn Mountain, near Custer, altitude 

 1,800 m.. July 16. 



Myosotis verna niacrosperma (Engelm.); Miiosolin macrosjwrma Y-^ngalm. Amer. 

 Journ. Sci. xlvi, 9S (IKI4). 



liare: Hot Springs, altituth^ 1,100 ni., .June 13 (No. 575). 



Myosotis sylvatica Holfmanu, Deutsch. Fl. i, 85 (1791). 



Slender, 1.5 to 3 dm. high, racemq loose, the pedicels longer than the fruiting 

 calyx. It does not belong to the A'ariety alpcstrin, which has been regarded .as the 

 only American form, but rather to the si)ecies. High altitudes in danij) jilaces among 

 rocks: Sylvan Lake, altitude 2,000 m., July 19 (No. 896). 



Mertensia sibirica (L.) Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. iv, 319 (18.38) ; I'nlmouarUt sih'.rica 

 L. Sp. PI. i, 135 (17.53). 



A single fruiting specimen, which seems to belong to this species, was collected at 

 Roehfonl. allitiub' l,7iiO in., .Inly 12 (No. 897). 



