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ARTEMESIA TRIDENTATA Pursh. This is considered a sure remedy 
for pneumonia, being taken internally, and also a poultice made of 
it and applied to the chest. One of my men was taken violently 
sick with mountain fever, his temperature going up to 104° and re- 
maining there; when other remedies failed, I gave him a large quan- 
tity of the cold infusion of the leaves, which cured him in a few days. 
Matacorurix Torrey Gray. The flowers close at night. 
CREPIS OCCIDENTALIS Nutt. The flowers close at night. 
LycopEsmia spinosa Gray. This plant it seems to me has been 
wrongly referred to this genus; it is a better Stephanomeria, in habit 
it closely resembles the perennial species and also Chetadelphia, 
which is hardly distinct. In some specimens recently sent me from 
Idaho by Mrs, Brodhead I found the upper 4 of the pappus was 
lonz plumose like Stephanomeria in many cases, while the rest of 
the pappus was strongly barbellate. The pappus is stout at base 
and differs from Stephanomeria in being multisetose only. 
PRIMULA BRODHEAD n. sp. 2 to 4 inches high; 1 to 4 flowered; 
scape 2 to 4 inches long; leaves 1 to 4 inches long, narrowly ellipti- 
cal, rounded at apex, glabrous, rather thick, smooth, entire, narrowed 
at base to a winged petiole an inch or less long; flowers purple, about 
5 lines wide, lobes orbicular or nearly so, notched, with a very short 
claw 2 lines long, tube exceeding thé calyx by 2 lines; funnel form 
above the calyx; calyx lobes 1% lines long and subulate lanceolate, 
barely acute, equaling the tube of the calyx; pod nearly spherical; 
pedicels of lateral flowers about a line long, the terminal one 2 to 6 
lines long; bracts oblong to ovate lanceolate, entire or toothed at 
apex, 1 to 6 lines long; base of plant covered with the dead sheaths 
of former leaves; roots like those of P. Parryi. Marshy places at 
Ketchum, Idaho, May to early June, altitude 6,000 feet. The per- 
fume at first is rather strong and sweet. Dedicated to Mrs. Brodhead, 
the collector. 
Var. MINOR n. var. Leaves an inch long or less, elliptical oblance- 
olate and acute, thin; lobes of the corolla as large as the type, but 
obovate; lobes of the calyx longer than the tube; flowers 1 to 2 on 
the scape; bracts long; plant 2 inches high. Bayhorse, Idaho, July 
1, at 8,000 feet altitude, in marshy places. This is between P. Par- 
ryi and P. nivalis, Ledeb, but if the characters given in the Synop- 
tical Flora are good this is a new species. I suppose this species is 
