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on the same plant, often more than 2 cm. in length; the 

 stamens are generally more exserted than in the figure; 

 the bracts are either trifoliate with entire oblanceolate 

 divisions, or with lobed divisions, or sometimes even 

 simple. - Under favorable conditions, the plants have 

 stems growing to a height of from 4—7 dm., leafy up to 

 the inflorescence; flowering branches bare, except for 

 the scattered bracts, which range from the decompound 

 ones below through palmately cleft, to small and simple 

 near the top; the lower leaves have long petioles, 9 or 10 

 cm., about half as long as the entire leaf, ultimate lobes 

 10 mm. wide. 



Type specimen in the Herbarium of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



3. Berberis Fremontii Torr., Mex. Bound. Sur., 30. 

 This species was first discovered by Fremont, in 1844, 



on the tributaries of the Rio Virgen, in southern Utah. 

 The description was drawn from specimens collected in 

 western Texas and New Mexico, also canon of the 

 Guadaloupe River, Sonora. It is described as having blue 

 berries. In King's Report, p. 416, Watson describes the 

 fruit of specimens collected by Dr. Palmer at St. Thomas, 

 southern Utah, as dry and bladdery, not blue. 



The specimen collected near the head of Willow Creek 

 is in fruit, the bladdery pods are rose color near the 

 pedicel, yellowish above, dehiscing into two spreading 

 valves. Specimens collected on the Grand River, near 

 Moab, Utah, in 1892, have similar fruit. 



The species was first put under B. trifoliata Moric, 

 but the character of the fruit and the difference in the 

 leaves distinguishes it easily. 



4. Argemone intermedia Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 2, 585 



(1830). 

 This was first described by James as A. alba, and was 



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