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shade; body of the seed under the lens marked with 

 fine membranous, crenate or broken ridges, radiating 

 from the axis. I can find no description of the seed of 

 A. involucrata, nor have I any fruiting specimens for 

 comparison. This is widely distributed, as I collected 

 the same variety near the head of Willow Creek and on 

 Barton's Range. 



75. Asclepias stenophylla Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., xii, 

 72 (1876). 



Described first as Poly ot us angustifolius, by Nuttall in 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, N. S., v, 201. 



Type locality: " In dry prairies, from Fort Smith to 

 Red River." 



Collected in flower and fruit in Willow Creek Canon. 

 The plants grew to a height of 3 or 4 feet. In the fruit- 

 ing specimen collected the pedicel is curved downwards 

 and the follicle is erect. 



76. Frasera Utahensis Jones, Zoe, ii, 13. 



Type locality : " Buckskin Mountains (Kaiba Plateau), 

 on the southern edge of Utah." 



Specimens were collected near the head of Willow 

 Creek, growing to a height of four or five feet, with thick 

 hollow stems ; flowering branches widely spreading above. 

 This was noted also on the sands of a branch of Epsom 

 Creek where Psoralen juncea, etc., were found. 



77. Gilia longiflora Don, Gen. Syst., iv, 245. 



First described as Cantua longiflora Torr., Ann. Lye, 

 N. Y., iii (1828), 221. 



Type locality: "On the Canadian River." 



This is described as glabrous in the Synoptical Flora, 



in the original description as " glaberrima." Thurber's 



specimen, No. 136, is slightly tomentose; Lemmon's plant 



from the Santa Catalina Mountains is similar; a specimen 



