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scarcely ever shorter than the leaflets. The typical form 

 occurs only northward from California to Idaho and Wy- 

 oming, with large simply lobei^ leaves, longer than the 

 petiole; racemes 2-4' long; fruit wings about i' long. 

 The variety I have from as far north as Helena, Mont., 

 Kelsey, where it is a curiosity. Also 5396, from Marys- 

 vale, Utah, in Bullion Canon, 10,000° alt., along streams, 

 June 5, 1895, grows in clumps, with reddish bark, seldom 

 over 15° high. No. 5663g, Marvine laccolite, Henry 

 Mountains, Utah, 6000° alt., in gravel, in box canons. 



LiNUM KiNGii var. pinetorum. 



No. 5306. May 28, 1894, canon above Tropic, Utah, 

 6500° alt., in gravelly clay. 



No. 6oi5g. September 6, 1894, Panguitch Lake, 

 Utah, 8400° alt., in gravelly soil. 



Low, 3-7' high; much branched from the base, with 

 very many erect, simple stems, or the outer ones decum- 

 bent at base ; all the lower part of the stems densely clad 

 with imbricated, 5-ranked, obtuse, glaucous, thick, oblong 

 (to narrowly oblong above) leaves, 1-2" long, or rarely 

 longer; the upper leaves more distant and longer, but 

 always longer than the internodes, rarely acute, 3-4" long; 

 flowers racemose or racemosely-clustered, rarely corym- 

 bose ; sepals broad, barely acute or obtuse, rather broadly 

 scarious and ciliate-dentate, i-nerved, or with 1-2 very 

 faint additional ones; petals yellow, obovate and rounded 

 at apex, widely spreading, 3" long. In other respects this 

 agrees with the type of L,. Kingii. It appears to be re- 

 markably distinct and grows in a wholly different zone, at 

 8000 ft. alt., among the pines, in very porous volcanic soil. 

 In view of the abnormal conditions under which it grows, 

 it is probable that it is only a good variety, though the 

 plant is remarkably abundant in the pine forests. 



