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No. 5397n. June 5, 1894, near Tate Mine, on Bullion 

 Creek, Utah, 10,000° alt., in gravel, along stream. 



No. 53i2q. May 28, 1894, canon above Tropic, Utah, 

 in gravel, 6500° alt. 



No. 6o56ah. September 18, 1894, De Motte Park, 

 Buckskin Mountains, Arizona, 9000° alt., in gravel. 



No. 5957b. August 29, 1894, Brigham Peak, near 

 Marysvale, Utah, 10,500° alt., in alpine meadow^s. 



The western forms of this species have the pod desti- 

 tute of a crest or lobe at the top. I have seen but one 

 specimen west of the Plains (from California) that is 

 truly typical, the rest belong to this variety. This species, 

 like hrachycarfa, has the wings reduced to nothing at the 

 very base of the pod. 



CEnothera brachycarpq Gray is said by Watson to be 

 the same as (E . niarginata var. purpurea Watson Bot. 

 King's Exp., but an examination of the type in the 

 National Herbarium fails to establish the fact. The 

 specimen is so immature afid so poor that no one can 

 say that it is not CE . ccsspitosa, and which it is far more 

 liable to be. This would clear up the synonymy very 

 much, as it is highly improbable that the species to which 

 it has been referred would exist in subalpine situations, 

 while its known home is the arid deserts, 4000° to 5000° 

 above the sea. 



CK. scAPOiDEA var. Parryi (Watson, Am. Nat. 9, 270). 

 CE . Parryi Wat. 1. c. This is manifestly only a variety 

 with pedicels an inch or less long and a pod 3" long. 



OENOTHERA CARDIOPHYLLA var. PETIOLARIS. 



Perennial, erect, stems usually simple, 1-2° high ; rather 

 finely pubescent and glandular; leaves cordate to nearly 

 round or even ovate, about i' long; thick, veiny, coarsely 

 dentate; petiole 1-3' long; flowers in rather short ter- 

 minal racemes, reddish, 6" wide ; stigma capitate, i" wide ; 



