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of Stem densely glandular-pubescent : flowers more or less glandular- 

 pubescent. — Beulah, Sapello canon, described from life, Aug. it, 1900. 

 The following are variations : 



(a) Lower, about three feet high; heads in bud erect; truncate; 

 buds pale ^r^^«, nodding, the uppermost transverse; spur about g™"" 

 long, rather slender and pointed ; linear bracts never reaching beyond 

 middle of bud, in most flowers shorter than peduncles ; lower part of 

 stem glabrous, with a whitish bloom, upper part and inflorescence 

 glandular-pubescent. — Beulah, July 27. 1902. 



(^) Tall ; heads in bud nodding, tapering ; buds, including spur ^ very 

 dark purplish] spur obliquely truncate; linear bracts far surpassing 

 buds, — Beulah, July 27. 



[c) Heads in bud erect; buds dark purple; spur rounded, broad 

 and thick ; linear bracts not surpassing buds, little longer than pedun- 

 cles.- — Beulah, July 29. 



These apparently distinct forms are connected by plenty of inter- 

 mediates, and often grow together. 



A specimen of D. sapellonis has been placed in the U. S. National 

 Museum. — T. D. A. Cockerell, East Las Vegas, N. M. 



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