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outer ovate to lanceolate, the body short, but tipped with 

 a very stout and long, yellow, roundish spine, i' long, or 

 equaling the head, the inner scales with shorter spines 

 and the innermost series of delicate, linear, subulate, thin, 

 red-tipped scales, shorter than the outer spines; corollas 

 not developed. This species is very striking and seem- 

 ingly different from any other. It grows in red, alkaline 

 sand, along the bottoms of the Pahria river, at Pahria, 

 Arizona. 



Crepis occidental is Nutt. 



No. 5568h. July 2, Provo, Utah, 6500 alt., in gravel. 



No. 5455e. June 18, two miles north of Ferron, Utah, 

 on clay, 5500 alt. 



No. 5432. June 15, Ireland's Ranch, in Salina Canon, 

 Utah, 8000 alt., in gravel. 



This differs from the type in having only 8 scales to 

 the involucre, and tends to break down the distinction 

 between this and the allied species. 



Nemacladus ramosissimus Nutt. 



No. 5077ae. April 19, at spring, 15 miles above 

 Pierce's Spring, Arizona, 1700 alt., in sand. 



No. 5045U. April 15, Mica Spring, Nevada, 4000 

 alt., in gravel. 



This is N. caf Maris Greene, but I can find no valid 

 characters on which to separate the two species. 



Primula incana. 



No. 53i2av. May 29, Beaver Coop ranch, at the head 

 of the South Fork of the East Fork of the Sevier river, 

 7000 alt., in cold bogs. A very early bloomer. 



Plants erect and single from fleshy or fleshy-thickened 

 roots, no tap root, 6' high, simple, scapose; root-leaves 

 rosulate, oval to elliptical -oblong, obtuse, rounded, mi- 

 nutely-denticulate, 1-2' long, without petioles, gree n 



