856 MISC. PUBLICATION 42 3, IT. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



to 8,000 feet, foothills, canyons, and pine forests, April to June. 

 Western Colorado and western Texas to Oregon and eastern Cali- 

 fornia. 



2. Symphoricarpos parishii Rydb.,Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 26: 545. 



1899. 



Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, etc. (Coconino County), 5,000 to 9,000 

 feet, dry hills, in the open or in chaparral, April to July. Nevada, 

 northern Arizona, and southern California. 



Specimens labeled as from Fort Mohave (Lemmon in 1884) doubt- 

 less were collected at a more elevated station. 



3. Symphoricarpos oreophilus A. Gray, Linn. Soc. London Jour. Bot. 



14: 12. 1873. 

 Apache, Navajo, and Coconino Counties, south to the mountains 

 of Cochise and Pima Counties, 5,500 to 9,000 feet, mostly in pine 

 forests, May to August. Colorado and western Texas to eastern 

 Nevada, Arizona, and northern Sonora. 



4. Symphoricarpos rotundifolius A. Gray, PL Wright. 2: 66. 1853. 

 Apache, Coconino, Yavapai, and Gila Counties, 4,000 to 10,000 



feet, rocky slopes, May and June. Southern Colorado, New Mexico, 

 and Arizona. 



5. Symphoricarpos utahensis Rydb., Torrey Bot. Club Bui. 26: 544. 



1899. 

 Carrizo Mountains, Apache County (Standley 7384), Navajo 

 Mountain, Coconino County {Peebles and Smith 13960), near Pine, 

 Gila County (MacDougal 702), 6,000 to 8,000 feet, canyons and 

 slopes, June and July. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. 



6. Symphoricarpos palmeri G. N. Jones, Arnold Arboretum Jour. 



21: 243. 1940. 

 White Mountains (Apache County), Keam Canyon (Navajo 

 County), Chiricahua Mountains (Cochise County), 7,000 to 8,200 

 feet, moist slopes and swales, May to July. Southern Colorado and 

 western Texas to eastern Arizona. 



3. LINNAEA. Twinflower 



Plant evergreen, nearly herbaceous; stems slender, creeping, form- 

 ing loose mats; leaf blades thickish, obovate or nearly orbicular, 

 crenulate; flowers nodding; corolla nearly regular, broadly funnel- 

 form, 5-lobed, white tinged with pink; stamens 4, unequal in length; 

 ovary 3-celled ; fruit 1-seeded, dry, indehiscent. 



1. Linnaea borealis L., Sp. PI. 631. 1753. 



White Mountains, Apache County (Zuck in 1907, Goodding 1162), 

 Kaibab Plateau, Coconino County (Grand Canyon Herb. 678), deep 

 coniferous forests, June and July. Greenland to Alaska, south to 

 New Jersey, Michigan, New Mexico, northern Arizona, and Calif ornia ; 

 Eurasia. 



The name of this beautiful little plant, very rare in Arizona, com- 

 memorates the great botanist Linnaeus. The Arizona form is var. 

 americana (Forbes) Render (L. americana Forbes). 



