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at base; bractlets lanceolate, 3 mm. long, i mm. wide: petals 

 with a very short blunt mucro. The species is plentiful on this 

 ridge up to 10500 feet, at times almost covering the ground. 

 Specimens collected at 9750 feet back of Lamoille differ in that 

 they are more slender, greener, the calyx lobes and bracts nar- 

 rower, the former longer pointed, and the petals are smaller, 

 darker yellow, and devoid of the blunt mucro. The Lamoille 

 plants are no doubt the same as Watson's 320, listed as a variety 

 of Geum Rossii. 



Primulus Parryi Qj\2.\ {P. miicronata ("Greene). Specimens 

 were collected about the rocks at the rim of the basin at 9500 

 feet. Dr. Greene got his type somewhere in the vicinity. 

 From the specimens at hand I can not separate his/*, miicronata 

 from P. Parryi of Colorado and Wyoming. One sheet shows 

 leaves 2 cm. or less in width, while another bears a plant with 

 leaves 4 cm. wide, with considerable distinction between petiole 

 and blade. Some leaves are acute, while others are blunt. 

 The narrow and deeply cleft calyx segments are well matched 

 in specimens of P. Parryi fiom Rollings pass, Grand county, 

 Colorado, collected by George E. Osterhout. 



Castilleja linoides Gray. Specimens of this were collected 

 at 9000 feet at about its upper limit, on rather dry slopes. It is 

 a common species from 6000 feet up, being very abundant at the 

 foot of the ridge in one of Mr. Smiley's fields, part of which has 

 not been cultivated. At 9000 feet it was less frequent. This 

 species is very rare in herbaria. Except the type and a scrap 

 collected by Jones, I have .seen no s[ecimens but my own. It 

 is a handsome species, the whole upper part of the plant orange 

 yellow. The t\ j^e was collected in the Clover mountains by 

 Watson. 



Pentsteynon modestiis Greene. The type of this was from 

 the "Ruby Mountains back of Deeth." It is apparently the 

 same as Watson's 784 from the Clover mountains, but may not 

 be identical with the West Humboldt mountain plant listed as 

 a form of P. confertus. The first specimens were collected at 

 8750 feet on a moist nc^rlh slope near a snow bank. The second 

 collection was at 8900 feet in granite in the basin in moist 



