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short petioled, pinnatifidly 3-7-lobed, lobes oblong or linear, somewhat gla- 

 brous above, dotted with conspicuous glands; flowers on short peduncles, 

 yellow, 1' in diameter; calyx glandular-tomentose, with broad and obtuse 

 segments ; achenium 3" long, glabrous or slightly hairy, striate ; style 

 2' long, densely plumose. — ^A handsome shrub, 1-6° high ; the trunk cov- 

 ered with an abundant loose shreddy cream-colored bark ; the wood light- 

 colored, hard, very compact and fine grained ; blooming abundantly in May 

 and retaining its fruit until October ; well worthy of cultivation. Northwest- 

 ern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Found on Antelope Butte, 

 Nevada, and frequent on the foot-hills above the Salt Lake Valley ; 5-6,000 

 feet altitude. (315.) 



Deyas octopetala, L. Leaves oblong, oblong-ovate or subcordate, ob- 

 tuse, crenately serrate, white-tomentose beneath, veins prominent and margins 

 revolute ; sepals linear-lanceolate ; flowers white or yellowish. — From Grreen- 

 land south to Labrador and Canada and west to Behring Strait, and on the 

 alpine peaks of the Rocky Mountains southward to Colorado. Found on the 

 Uinta Mountains, Utah; 11-12,000 feet altitude; August. The flowers are 

 decidedly yellow and the sepals are variable in form, the length often scarcely 

 twice the width. It would seem that D. Drummondii should share the fate 

 of D. integrifolia. (316.) 



Geum macrophyllum, Willd. New Hampshire, Canada, and the west- 

 em lake region ; from Alaska to California, (Mono Pass, Bolander ;) New 

 Mexico, (Fendler.) Found on stream banks in Ruby and Thousand Spring 

 Valleys, Nevada, and in the "Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June-Septem- 

 ber. (317.) 



Geum teiflorum, Pursh. From Newfoundland to Northern New York, 

 Illinois and Missouri, to latitude 60°, and in the mountains westward ; re- 

 ported from Washington Territory, CaUfornia, Northern Arizona, (Ives,) and 

 Colorado. Found in the Battle Mountains, Nevada, an(^ in the Uintas, Utah ; 

 7-8,000 feet altitude; June-August.. (318.) 



Geum Rossii, Seringe. Scape 1-flowered, 3-8' high, shghtly pubes- 

 cent above, somewhat 2-leaved ; radical leaves interruptedly pinnate, rather 

 glabrous, minutely cihate, leaflets ovate or cuneiform, 2-3-lobed or entire ; 

 flowers erect ; calyx-lobes ovate, spreading, shorter than the roundish petals ; 

 carpels in a sessile head, minutely hirsute ; styles persistent, glabrous, not 

 exserted in fruit.— Melville Island, Behring Strait, and the Rocky Mountains 



