184 BOTANY. 



Aectostaphylos tomentosa, Dougl.— Shrub, 10° high; branchlets, 

 younger petioles, and pedicels hispidly pubescent; leaves oval, thick, 

 entire ; flowers in short, close racemes, white, pale red, or red ; calyx-lobes 

 ciliate, reflexed after fall of the fruit ; fruit pale yellowish-red, hairy when 

 young (not warty), several-seeded. One of the several shrubs known as 

 manzanita (or little apple) by the natives. The berries of this are used to 

 form a cooling acid drink. — Mount Graham, Arizona, at 7,000 feet. 



Aectostaphylos glauca, Lindl — "8-20 feet high, much branched"; 

 leaves rigidly coriaceous, oblong to round, glaucous, sometimes slightly 

 cordate; flowers flesh-colored; pedicels glandular-hairy, slender; fruit 

 large, enclosing a 5-celled stone 6" in diameter. Leaves twisting on their 

 petioles become vertical. — Nevada and Utah. 



Pyrola secunda, L. — Shady ravines at Twin Lakes, Colorado, 10,500 

 feet (739). 



Pyrola minor, L. — Alpine ravines, Colorado, at 10,500 feet (740). 



Pyeola botundifolia, L., var. uliginosa, Cray. — Twin Lakes, Colo- 

 rado, at 9,500 feet (738). 



Moneses unifloea, Gray. — Twin Lakes, Colorado (743). 



Pteeospoea Andeomedea, Nutt. — Mount Graham, Arizona, at 9,000 



feet (413). 



PEIMULACEiE. 



Primula Paeeyi, Gray. — Mountain ravines, Colorado, at 10-12,000 

 feet (734). 



Primula angustifolia, Ton-. (Ann. N. Y. Lye. 1, p. 34, t. 3, fig. 3). — 

 Root thick ; many fibrous rootlets ; radical leaves obtuse, lanceolate to 

 spatulate, entire, 6"-2' long ; scape 1-3' high, naked or with a few bracts ; 

 calyx-tube cylindrical and with the obtuse, lanceolate, subulate teeth as 

 long as the tube of the purple, sub-campanulate corolla (sometimes a 

 little shorter) ; corolla 6-9" wide ; stamens inserted low down in the tube, 

 the short filaments not more than one-fourth as long as the oblong anthers; 

 stigma broadly clavate or globose. — Colorado (736); alpine. 



Primula farinosa, L. — South Park, Colorado (737). 



Androsace septentrionalis, L. — Colorado (356, 358, 359) ; Santa 

 F4, (51). Collected also by Dr. Loew in Arizona, but locality not given. 



