SOUTHWESTERN PLANTS. 
LESLIE N. GOODDING, 
EARLY in the season of 1902 the writer visited the southern 
part of Nevada and Utah for the purpose of securing as large a 
representation of the flora as possible. On arriving at Calientes, 
the extreme southern point of the Oregon Short Line at that 
time, in the latter part of April, it was found that the plants were 
not yet in condition to collect. On that account the trip was 
extended southward along Meadow Valley Wash, the Muddy, 
and the Virgin to the Colorado River. From thence return was 
made along the Virgin to St. George, Utah, and directly across 
to.Modena, Utah. Calientes was again visited and collections 
made of plants that had now come into condition. Returning 
northward through Utah, stops were made at every convenient 
point on the railroad, from which visits were made to some of the 
desert portions of central Utah and to several localities in the 
Wasatch Mountains. Leaving the railroad at Carter, Wyoming, 
with camp outfit, and traveling southward, the final work of the 
trip was done in the Uintah Mountains and on their southern 
slopes. Three weeks were spent here, and proved as profitable 
as any of the twelve that were spent in the field, 
A large amount of material was secured, and among the sev- 
eral hundred species are many of great interest, either because of 
their meager representation in the herbaria, or because they are 
poorly understood, or finally because they have heretofore wholly 
escaped recognition. A discussion of a few of these is submitted 
in this paper 
CENTROSTEGIA Gray, DC. Prod. 14:27; Pacif. R. Rep. 
7:10. 
C. CRYPTANTHA (Curran); Chorizanthe Thurberi cryptantha Cur- 
ran, Bull. Cal. Acad. *: 275: 
C. Leproceras Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 192; Chorizanthe 
leptoceras Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 269. 
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