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reflexed in fruit. Closely resembling P. pusilla, but M'itli twice larger flowers 

 and fruit, and the capsule (1" or more in length) more protruded. Discov- 

 ered by Bigelow at Benicia, California. Salt Lake Valley, near the mouth 

 of Jordan River ; June. (749.) 



Plantago Patagonica, Jacq., Var. gnaphalioides. Gray. From Texas 

 to Sonora and California, northward to Western Wisconsin and Washington 

 Territory. Salt Lake Valley and on Antelope Island ; May-July. (750.) 



PRIMULACE^. 



Primula Paeeyi, Gray. Amer. Jour. 8ci., n. s., 34. 257. Leaves ob- 

 lanceolate, narrowing to a broad fleshy petiole, and with the rest of the plant 

 somewhat glandular-scabrous, at least upon the margin, which is entire or 

 denticulate with short glandular teeth ; leaves of the involucre subulate or 

 linear, unequal, acute, several times shorter than the elongated pedicels ; 

 calyx-lobes broad-lanceolate, acute, equaling the tube of the pink corolla ; 

 corolla-lobes rounded, obcordately 2-cleft or emarginate. — Leaves ^-1° in 

 length and scape 4-16' high, with 6-15 flowers upon unequal pedicels i-3' 

 long ; flowers rose-color, becoming purple in drying. Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado. Frequent in moist cold localities in the East Humboldt and Clover 

 Mountains, Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 8-11,000 feet altitude; July-Sep- 

 tember. (751.) 



Andkosace septenteionalis, L. DC. Prodr. 8. 52. Annual, acaules- 

 cent, somewhat scabrous-pubescent ; leaves rosulate, lanceolate or lanceolate- 

 ovate, denticulate, with a broad petiole ; scapes numerous, many -flowered ; 

 leaflets of the small involucre narrowly lanceolate, acute ; calyx-lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, equaling the small white corolla. — Very variable in 

 size ; leaves l-l¥ long, the 3-20 scapes ^-4' high, and the 6-20 pedicels 

 nearly as long. From the Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, and north 

 to latitude 68° ; Behring Strait ; Rocky Mountains of Colorado. East Hum- 

 boldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada, and frequent in the Wahsatch and Uin- 

 tas ; 6,500-10,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (752,) and the more 

 reduced alpine form, (753.) 



Andeosace occidentalis, Pursh. Smaller than ordinary forms of the 

 last, with fewer scapes and flowers, broader leaves and involucral leaflets, and 

 larger and more foliaceous calyx-lobes. From Illinois to Arkansas and west 



