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long and oval; leaflets ovate to oblanceolate, six lines long; 
leaves three inches long and calyx softly pubescent and whole 
plant otherwise glabrous; peduncles six inches or more long, 
erect and as stout as the stems; calyx campanulate with tube 
two lines long, the short triangular teeth one-third as long as 
tube; flowers not seen; pedicels stout, a line long; bracts very 
small; many stemmed from a woody root, one and one-half feet 
high, but base of stem bent, branched below. ‘This at first sight 
seems to be very distinct from 4. collinus but I cannot refer it 
elsewhere. 
Potentilla (lvesta) Kingtt, var. incerta, n. var. Densely white 
silky throughout; leaflets obovate or ovate, densely imbricated; 
leaves three inches long, more slender than the type. Other- 
wise as in the type. Alkaline soil in the middle of Steptoe 
Valley E. Nevada, 5700 feet altitude, July 13, 1891. I am not 
able to compare this with Potentilla evemica, Coville which from 
the description would seem to be the same, but this is manifestly 
only a variety of the type as it shades into it. 
Cymofpterus purpurascens (Gray) C. montanus var. purpurascens 
Gray Bot. Ives. I cannot think that this plant which is so com- 
mon from one end of Utah to the other and covers so wide a 
range is a form of the Rocky Mountain species which so far’ is 
not known west of the mountains of Colorado. 
Cypmoterus Fendleri Gray. This species belongs to my sec- 
tion Coloptera and to it should be referred C. Parry? (C. & R.), 
C. decipiens Jones. I was misled by Watson’s unwarranted 
reference of one of my specimens to GC. Fendlert or I should have 
recognized the true place of C. Parryz in the synonymy. 
Frasera speciosa Douglas var. scabra n. var. Closely resemb- 
ling the type except that the root leaves are six to eight inches 
long, one and one-half inch or less wide; whole plant ashy 
scabrous even to the petals; the leaves are very nervose (seven 
of the nerves being very prominent), thick; petals oblong, three- 
quarters inch long, very obtuse and rounded; glands as in the 
type but very coarse, three to four lines long, attached below the 
middle and running nearly to the base, oblanceolate, acute at 
base, coarsely fringed; scales at base of petals coarse; anthers 
