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form known as variety lanceolata! was more common. Thedford, June 15; Norway, 
June 23; Plummer Ford, July 3-(No. 1305). 
The form corresponding to variety linearis? was collected at Norway, June 23; 
Plummer Ford, July 3 (No. 1423). 
GENTIANACES. 
Gentiana andrewsii Griseb. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer, ii, 55 (1838). 
Not uncommon in the meadows: Thedford, September 7; Mullen, September 16 
(No. 1736). 
POLEMONIACES. 
Collomia linearis Nutt. Gen. 1, 126 (1818). 
In fruit only: Plummer Ford, July 5 (No. 1502), 
Gilia longiflora (Torr.) Don, Gard. Dict. iv, 245 (1838); Cantua longiflora Torr. 
Ann, Lye. N. Y. ii, 221 (1827). 
Professor Greene separates (ilia and Navarretia, If they should constitute only 
one genus, the name becomes Navarretia longifolia.® Forks of Middle Loup River, 
July 27; Plummer Ford, August 23; south of Whitman, August 3; Cody’s Lakes, 
August 11 (No, 1605), 
HYDROPHYLLACEA. 
Macrocalyx nyctelea (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 434 (1891); Ipomea nyctelea 
L. Sp. Pl. i, 160 (1753). 
Only four small specimens in fruit were collected in a prairic-dog town near Thed- 
ford, June 15 (No. 1801), 
BORAGINACES. 
Lappula redowskii occidentalis (Wats.) nom. nov.; Lchinospermum redowskii 
occidentalis Wats. Bot. King Surv. 246 (1871). 
Professor MacMillan! has Lappula redowskii pilosa; but this should not be used, 
as Nuttall’s Cynoglossum pilosum® is simply a misidentification. Nuttall mistook our 
plant for C. pilosum of Ruiz & Pavon.® Sandy soil: Thedford, June 14; Plummer 
Ford, July 3 (No. 1259). 
Lappula deflexa americana (Gray) Greene, Pittonia, ii, 183 (1891); Lchinospermum 
deflecum americanum Gray, Proc, Amer. Acad., xvii, 224 (1882). 
The American form is quite different from the European. 
Nebraska specimens have much broader and shorter leaves than the usual form. 
Rare: Plummer Ford, August 22 (No, 1475), 
Cryptanthe crassisepala (Torr. & Gr.) Greene, Pittonia, i, 112 (1887) ; Eritrichium 
erassisepalum Torr. & Gr. Pac, R, Rep. ii, 171 (1854), 
Prairie-dog towns: Thedford, June 20; Dismal River, June 27 (No. 1307). 
Cryptanthe fendleri (Gray) Greene, Pittonia, i, 120 (1887); Arynitzkia fendleri Gray, 
Proc, Amer. Acad. xx, 268 (1885). 
Prairie near Dismal River, June 27 (No, 1429), 
Oreocarya suffruticosa (Torr.) Greene, Pittonia, i, 57 (1887); Myosotis suffruticosa 
Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii, 225 (1827). 
Prairies: Plummer Ford, July 8; Forks of Dismal River, July 11 (No. 1514). 
'(Ives) Gray, Syn. FL. ii, pt. i, 99 (1878) ; al. lanceolata Ives, Amer, Journ. Sci. 1, 252 
(1819). 
*Gray, Syn. F1. ii, pt. i, 99 (1878). 
8(Torr.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 433 (1891), 
4*Metasp. Minn. Val. 441, 1892. 
5Gen. i, L14 (1818), 
SFI], Peruy. ii, 6 (1799). 
