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any of the characters given prove to hold, it may bear the name 
Neillia alternans. 1 fear however that it will prove to be only 
another of those multitudinous forms that are liable to fall into 
N. monogyna or opulifolia. 
Neillia monogyna (Torrey) Greene var. malvacea (Greene, 
Pittonia, Vol. ii, p. 31). I have seen the type in the University 
of California, and recognized it at once as our common Utah form 
with leaves a little more developed on the sterile shoots, due to 
the more moist locality in which it was found. This is interme- 
diate between 1, opulifolia and N. monogyna, with the habit of 
the former as well as the leaves and the pod about intermediate. 
The calyx is not as large as in one form of WV. opu/ifolia from 
Colorado, the lobes are of the general shape of V. monogyna and 
the calyx of every species and variety is campanulate, the lobes 
of all the genus would be connivent if the pods did not exceed 
the calyx, the calyxes of all the genus are tomentose within and 
without but less so without, the leaves are racemose- 
digitately (as given above) five-nerved in some of the larger 
leaves but less so than in the var. a//ernans and but slightly more 
so than in JV. opul/ifolia. The name is not distinctive as the 
leaves are not so malvaceous as in 4. opulifolia var. mollis. The 
leaves one-half to two inches long vary from reniform to ovate, 
lobeless to deeply three-lobed with several secondary lobes, main 
lobes above or below the middle, teeth minute and very many or 
large and few; pubescence various and inconstant everywhere 
except on the calyx; flowers quite large or rather small, with the 
general appearance of JV. opulifolia as well as size; carpels gener- 
ally two, seldom if ever inflated, united to the middle with erect — 
or spreading tips, just equaling the calyx and lobes when well 
developed, slightly rugulose, shortly but not densely pubescent, 
and shining beneath the pubescence; seeds three, one generally 
larger than the others, obliquely obovate or narrower and 
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shining, yellow, not larger than in 4. opudifolia and usually 
shorter and broader than the var. mod/is. The pod is dehiscent 
on one or both sides nearly to the middle at least in many cases 
though tardily; when not fully mature the pod is indehiscent 
