304 BOTAiirr. 



Var. Fendleeianum, Benth. Larger; leaves broad, 1-li' long and 

 4-5" wide ; involucres 2" long in a broad loose cyme. — Collected in New 

 Mexico by Fendler. Nevada specimens, from Bloomer and Torrey, connect 

 with the following form. 



Var. CONFEETIPLOEUM, T. & Gr. Shrubby (1° high) and leafy ; leaves 

 narrowly oblong ; flowers crowded in the usually contracted cymes. — From 

 Utah (Stansbury) to Oregon and Northern California. 



Var. LEPTOPHYLLUM, T. & G. Leafy ; leaves narrowly linear with the 

 margins strongly revolute, glabrate; cyme short, usually full-flowered and 

 crowded. — Utah (Grunnison) and New Mexico. 



Var. LEPTOCLADON, T. & Gr. More slender ; leaves linear ; cyme loosely 

 panicled; involucres sometimes unilateral from the abortion of the second 

 branchlet. — Green River, Utah, (Gunnison.) 



Eeiogonum BEEVicAULE, Nutt. T. Sf G., l.c, p. 112. Csespitose-shrubby, 

 the woody leafy branches very short or depressed, bearing a naked elongated 

 herbaceous scapelike peduncle; leaves 1-24' long and 1-5" broad, linear, 

 oblong-linear or narrowly spatulate-oblanceolate, attenuate into a slender peti- 

 ole, white-woolly on both sides or becoming glabrous above, the margins at 

 length mostly revolute ; scapes rigid, 3-10' high, the cyme repeatedly um- 

 beled or trichotomous, calyculately bracted at the nodes ; peduncles and the 

 5-toothed oblong or cyathiform-campanulate involucres (14-2" long) glabrous 

 or soon glabrate ; calyx glabrous within, white or rose-color or sometimes 

 bright yellow, the segments obovate-oblong and nearly equal; ovary as in the 

 preceding. — Cyme ample, either fastigiate or very open, the bracts short, 

 connate, and white-woolly within. Approaching some forms of the last. 

 From the head-waters of the Platte to New Mexico, Utah and Montana; 

 Southern Utah, (Palmer.) Only in the Wahsatch ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; 

 June, July. Flowers mostly bright yellow ; the leafy stems only 1-3' but 

 the slender peduncles 6-12' long ; the branching woody caudex often very 

 stout. (1,027.) 



Eeiogonum eacemosum, Nutt. T. Sf G., I.e., p. 175. (§ Viegata, See 

 Appendix, under Eriogonece.) Perennial, floccose-woolly ; scapes solitary or 

 few from the summit of the subterranean caudex, stout, 1-3° high, naked or 

 leafy-bracted at the lower nodes ; leaves 1-3' long, on long (3-4') petioles, 

 ovate or oblong, sometimes subcordate, white-woolly beneath; involucres 

 tubular-campanulate, obtusely 5-toothed, many-flowered, numerous, appressed 



