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found only in the Uintas and in Bear River Valley, Utah ; 6-7,000 feet alti- 

 tude ; July. Plate XXIII. Fig. 6. A spikelet ; natural size. Fig. 8. Calyx, 

 with matured fruit ; enlarged two diameters. (852.) 



Var. (?) FULVOCANESCENS. Low, subcsespitose and certainly perennial ; 

 stems several, 1-8' high, erect or ascending, hirsute ; leaves J-2' long, obo- 

 vate or oblong- spatulate with very narrow petioles, obtuse, tomentose with a 

 soft silky pubescence and hirsute ; raceme short and terminal or compound, 

 J-3' long, the clusters few-several-flowered, densely hirsute with yellow or 

 brownish hairs, the flowers distinctly pedicelled and frequently subumbeled, 

 with inconspicuous narrow-lanceolate or more frequently ovate and obtuse or 

 sometimes obsolete bractlets ; flowers turning brown in drying and with the 

 fruit nearly as in the last, but the calyx-lobes rather narrower and less en- 

 larged in fruit. — Very probably a distinct species, but it seems sometimes to 

 approach small forms of the last too nearly. It is 632 Fendler, from New 

 Mexico, {E. fulvocanescens, Gray, Ms. in Herb.,) and 467, 522 and 577 

 Frdmont, (1844,) probably collected in Utah. Frequent in the mountains 

 through Nevada, from the base to nearly the highest peaks, and also found in 

 the Wahsatch; 5-11,000 feet altitude; May-September. Plate XXIIT. 

 Fig. 7. A spikelet ; natural size. (853.) 



Eeiteichium Kingii. Annual, hispid with spreading hairs, erect, 

 branched, 4-8' high ; leaves broadly spatulate, obtuse, alternate, the upper 

 oblong or ovate, sessile and clasping ; flowers in terminal somewhat bifurcate 

 racemes, very shortly pedicelled, the lowermost only bracted ; calyx hirsute 

 with yellow hairs, 5-parted, the lobes oblong, obtuse, equaling the corolla- 

 tube ; corolla white, the limb broad (3-4") and expanded, the throat with 

 conspicuous obtuse scales ; nutlets IJ" long, ovate, obtuse, rugosely verrucose, 

 attached to the very short style above the base, not at all margined upon the 

 back but the edge rounded. — AUied to the preceding, but very distinct. In 

 Truckee Pass and in the Trinity Mountains, Nevada ; 4,500-6,000 feet alti- 

 tude ; May. Plate XXIII. Fig. 3. A plant ; natural size. Fig. 4. Flower, 

 laid open ; enlarged four diameters. Fig. 5. Calyx and mature fruit ; en- 

 larged two diameters. (854.) 



Eeiteichium fulvum, A. DC. DC. Prodr. 10. 132. {Myosotis tenella, 

 Nutt., Ms.) Annual, low (1-10') and slender, hirsute with mostly spread- 

 ing hairs ; stems usually solitary, erect, branched from the base or more com- 

 monly simple and loosely panicled above; leaves mostly radical, rosulate. 



