CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY. ' 709 



Pectocarya linearis var. penicillata (H. & A. 

 Bot. Beechy, 371). 



Pectocarya ■penicillata H. & A., 1. c. 



The constant recurrence of intermediate forms makes 

 it no longer possible to keep up this as a distinct species. 

 Among- other intermediate forms is one from Wilcox from 

 Idaho in the National Herbarium. 



X Pectocarya setosa Gray. The nutlets are described as 

 equally divergent, but they are not; they are geminate. 

 In P. pusilla they are equally divergent in my specimens. 



Krynitzkia echinoides. 



No. 5297P. May 26, 1894, Pahria Canon, Utah, 5300° 

 alt., in red sand. 



No. 53i2ac. May 28, 1894, Cannonville, Utah, 6000° 

 alt., on clay slopes. 



This is a csespitose perennial, 6' high, with erect stem, 

 and is very fulvous, except the lowest leaves; pubescence 

 of the leaves close, short, dense, appressed, upper stem 

 and calyx very setose with spreading hairs ; corolla white 

 or cream-colored, usually 1-2" longer than the nearly 

 filiform calyx lobes, which are 3-4" long, corolla lobes 

 rounded, rotate, short, about li" long; nutlets sharp- 

 angled, wingless, muricate, corrugated, papillose, and 

 short-setose on the backs and sides. This is very close 

 to K. fulvocanescens, to which some specimens have been 

 referred. The synonymy of this species is very much 

 confused, the original Eritrichium fulvocanescens of Gray 

 in Herb, based on Fendler's specimen from New Mexico 

 is K. echinoides, though the specimen is only in flower. 

 Watson, in King's Report, took up the name of Gray for 

 a Utah plant, and erroneously referred Fendler's plant to 

 it, but the specimen on which Watson's description and 

 figure were founded is now in the National Herbarium, 

 and is clearly a low altitude variety of K. sericea{Gv?iy)i. e. 



