244 Utak Plants. [zor 
This grows in the sand along or near Grand River, in eastern 
Utah. Collected May 2, 1890. The name indicates the state of 
mind a person is in who tries to invent a name for a new species of 
this immense genus without getting one already occupied. 
PSORALEA CASTOREA Watson and (. mephitica Watson, are 
identical, I think, as the characters given for mephitica allappear on 
plants with the same root as P. castorea. These plants seem to grow 
in large patches and the thickened roots go straight down several 
feet and then branch off horizontally and appear to be all con- 
nected. I will add more about this Psoralea at another time. 
CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS Nuttall. Since I became’ convinced 
that the C. zntricatus of Watson was only a form of this species, 
some ten years ago, I have been specially interested in this genus, 
C. ledifolius comes down to an altitude of 7,000 feet in the 
Wasatch mountains and runs up to over 8,000 feet altitude. Itisa 
densely branched and scrawny shrub on rocky places, and where 
the moisture is greater and the soil better it straightens up and is 
20 feet high and tree-like. In eastern Nevada where the moisture 
is far less it grows at 8,000 to 9,000 feet altitude, and is generally 
shrubby. Near the East Humboldt mountains it occasionally comes 
alittle lower toward the edges of the lower foothills, but never in 
the valleys which are here seldom less than 6,000 feet above the sea. 
I have seen the trees 40 feet high there; with a trunk 1% feet in 
diameter and so well formed as to make good posts. The leaves 
and flowers do not vary much except at the lowest altitudes. 
CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS Nutt. var. INTRICATUS Jones ( C. zz/77- 
catus Watson), was first found at about 6,000 feet altitude in the Wa- 
satch mountains in American Fork Cafion, by Watson, on the face of 
precipitous cliffs where it still abounds. I botanized there in 1880 
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feet altitude I found a comple te iransition to C. ledifolius, and there- 
fore reduced the species to /edzfolius. The plant at the lower al- 
titudes was a tangled shrub 2 to 3 feet high, with revolute, linear, 
smooth and shining leaves on the upper side, small flowers and 
