8 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. 



leaves oblanccolate, 4-6 lines wide ; otherwise as in E. aiidrosa- 

 ceum. An intermediate form is No. 6507, Jones Cuddy Mts., Idaho, 

 having; the leaves of E. Piperi, a less produced stipe and more 

 tapering- and golden-yellow flowers. \ similar form from the 

 Yellowstone, also E. Oregon and Washington. Blooms in sum- 

 mer. 



E. Jamesii var. \indulatuin>(rknth. DC. Prod. 14 7.) Stokes. 



Said to have much smaller flowers: with ovate and luidulate 

 and revolutc leaves; from Northern Mexico. The plants 

 hitherto reported from Arizona, are only the var. flavescens, and 

 not this form. 



E, saxatile var. Stokesse (Jones Cont. 8 40) Stokes, E. Bloomen 



Parish. 



Peduncles long, appearing glaucous, cymosely branched only 

 above and with sessile involucres in all the forks, the uppermost 

 branches shortly racemose; flowers greenish-white, stipe Very 

 broadly winged from the outer sepals down ; flowers broader and 

 shorter: leaves obovate, about i>4 inches long, thinly pubescent. 

 Panamint Mts., California, on the (.-dge of the Tropical life zone 

 also in the San Bernardino Mts„ Cal. 



E.niveum var. dichotomum (Douglas DC. Prod. 14.) Stokes. 

 Whole plant woolly except the flowers ; leaves oblanceolate, or 

 acute or obtuse; lower bracts produced; inflorescence cymosely- 

 umbellate: involucres mostly single, about 3 lines long, constrict- 

 ed at mouth ( ?} strongly toothed, outer sepals broadly elliptical, 

 inner linear-spatulate. Helena, Mont., to California. 



E. ovalifolium var nivale iCanby Death Valley, Rep. 187.) E 



nivale Canby 1. c. 



This is a much reduced alpine form, with a single involucre, 

 small leaves and short peduncles. It occurs in the high Sierras : 

 similar forms are also foxmd in Southern Idaho. 



