212 " BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS IN WESTERN WYOMING. . 
3. STANLEY droiext0sa—Very pak spe Mena or a rate diate (es pe 
d low natifid 
to l 
lower p radical 
in the manner of S, pinnatifida, t the upper ‘ope entire iya hastate, passin eu 
ceolate and finally into stubulate, bracts for the lower flowers; race e very gee 
and thick, and a P 7 lon iB, of aet innumer- 
able pale ¢ cream-colored flowers} pedicsa in n fruit wep the tepe 2 the p 
stipe: Biennial, perhaps times peren- 
nial by offshoots, one to. three feet igh. Petals Vicente, ohloñg, p err E 
centre. Stigma green.—C, C. ~a ; 
DRABA VENTOSA.—Depressed aa cæspitòse, branching from slender rootstocks, 
canescently tomentose a the aha ANEN i areke bee vor = oe Br 
mostly tufted branches, spatulate oblon "o oboy rigid; pedu ; 
fruit exserted beyond the leaves, corym tae 3- b-lowered; ‘pets golden: yellow 
silicle oval or orbicular, tomentulose-hir sute, tipped witha 2 
high rocky peak o ove rlooking Snake and Wind River valleys. The larger and as laxer 
leaf 
: es 3 to 5 or even 6 lines long, of soft and herbaceous texture, obtuse and» i 
pointless taperin ng to the base; the pubescence wholly soft and Pia ‘the stellular — 
tuft generally slender-stipitate. Scape or peduncle half an inch to nearly an inch in ; 
length tae fally develo oped. Petals obovate-or spatulate, i hen k Silicle fully 2 ; 
lines wide, 24 to 34 lines lon ng; the abrupt style half a line to nearly a line long. n 
foliage is not unlike that of the imperfectly known D. cag arpa Gray, of the Sierra 
da—A. GRAY, Ss 
65. ASTRAGALUS a VENTORUM Gra s.—Somewhat canescent 
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egume sess ie, sligh tly pamens turgid, oblong, 
eee OOE, Sights Por id, aris ene; the ventral suture s$ f 
nent and the dorsal slightly impressed.—Co lect ted on Wind keri differing from nb 
other species of the section in its ~~ arnt is that of A: succumbens, in its yello 
flowers a pi rlegumes.—s. 
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75a GALUS (PECTINATI) reg en Parry MS Distinguished from A A. pectinatus : 
by: ss snake leaflets, which are 1-14 inclies long by 14-24 lines broad, qui er = 
- veined, and yah bag somewhat thinner pod, ascending instead of deflex pd He pets 
i oe yel 7—On the gr avell 
nn Reese cen Piniri a: mcr high, hoary, with at 3 thin Jobat ere 
"stam; pints several from a rather ock, simple, naked sar ma 
wood sim 
summit DE * single large head; alibi nea enspidate; oie of hes 
very mneh senmi 
uere in 
numerous, i. over pelt aa an inch in length akenes very white-villou rez 
l4. TOWNSENDIA PARRYI.— Perennial, canescently pubes ae “eles 
ah leaves rosulate, obovate-apatulate, 0 ften apiculate, perk into 
į pedu uncles stout (2-4 inches long), solitary or several, 
low, nak 
wr lanceolate, acute, herbac 
di. with scarious lace 
ble the length 
, persisten n nat Ve 
n the —In the Wind River Range at 9,000 feet. : 
ra on p. 1. 1 “This very, beautiful, daisy is elosely gba h 
ra, 2 h the saniat 
s are fully as lar ge as those of T. . grandiflora (ag to 2 inches Nady" 
ety ed a a therays bright blue. ‘The involucral scales 
‘than in EOE OA 0 ies fos neatly apienimed, ae 
