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like scales; sepals ovate or lanceolate, about % the length of the 
petals; petais 2 lines long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, veiny, orange- 
yellow, tipped with deep red in the bud, fading to light yellow with 
a white border; stipe one line long; fruit nearly truncate at top, 
with a triangular base, 4 to 5 lines wide and 2 to 2% lines high, 
partition obovate, style % line long, seeds ovate, spotted, smooth, 
several in each cell; stamens slightly exceeding the petals. 
reen Bier Utah, May 9, 1890. Dedicated to General Wm. 
tie eearihes in Utah, or who has shown his interest in a more 
substantial way. 
CERASTIUM ALPINUM, L., var. BEHRINGIANUM, Regel. My speci- 
mens of this plant from the Uinta Mountains, in Utah, are glandular 
and not ‘‘silky hirsute.” These specimens were collected on La 
Motte Peak, August 11, 1888. 
PETALOSTEMON SEARLSI& Gray. I suppose this is the name of 
the plant which I collected in Southern Utah and Arizona in 1890. 
It is perennial with shrubby lower stems, obovate to oblong- 
lanceolate leaflets, branched like Hosackia Wrightii, petals oblance- 
olaie 
I have seen what seems to be ADOLPHIA INFESTA Meisner, from 
cence though less dense, branches opposite only by accident. 
AsTRAGALUS COLTONI. This belongs to the section Homolobi 
Watson, and is allied to filipes and /ancearius. 1 to 2 feet high, 
many-stemmed from a thick woody root, branching at the base, erect 
or ascending; lower stipules scarious and connate, upper ones tri- 
angular, small and green, more or less united; leaves 2 to 4 inches 
long, petiole an inch long; leaflets about 3 pairs, distant, broadly 
linear, sometimes linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, uppermost leaves often 
reduced to the long, almost filiform rachis, which is generally broad- 
ened at the tip into the lanceolate terminal leaflet, and is therefore 
not articulated with the rachis; stems, and particularly the very long 
(6 to 12 inches) peduncle sulcate; young leaves ashy, otherwise the 
