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ciently from the type in habit, in the mode of inflorescence, and in 

 the calyx-characters to merit varietal rank. I therefore submit the 

 following name and characterization : 



'"GiLiA TRICOLOR, Benth., var. longipedicellata, Greenman, n, 

 var. Stems diffusely branched from the base, i to 2 dm. high, sparingly 

 glandular-puberulent : flowers on long slender pedicels (i to 3.5 cm. 

 in length) : tube of the calyx becoming scarious below the sinuses, 

 but little or not at all colored : calyx-teeth lance-acuminate : corolla 

 7 to 10 mm. long, colored as in the species proper. — Massachusetts: 

 on wool refuse at Lawrence, 14 June, 1900, /t?//;/ A. CoUins.Jr. 



"It is with some hesitation that I base this new variety upon an 

 isolated specimen, especially as the plant was introduced evidently 

 into the eastern locality, but I feel confident that the same form will 

 be found sooner or later in its native country, most likely in Califor- 

 nia. Our thanks are due Prof. Willis L. Jepson for a careful com- 

 parison of Mr. Collins's specimen with the material in the Herbarium 

 of the University of California." 



The species of Phlox recorded are all escapes that have become 

 more or less established in various localities. A few instances 

 will suffice. Mr. M. L. Fernald found F/ilox pafiiciilata locally abun- 

 dant in Langdon, N. H., in July, 1899, in a roadside thicket, and 

 Mr. C. H. Bissell has shown me the species from Lyme, Conn., 

 where he says it was well established in July, 1892. Ur. C. B. 

 Graves collected J^h/ox niaculata in June, 189 1, not far from New 

 London, Conn., where the species had been established for many 

 years, far from any cultivated plants of the same kind. Phlox subu- 

 lata seems to show a fondness for spreading in and about old grave- 

 yards. It was found in such a situation by Mr. E. B. Chamberlain 

 in Cumberland, Me., on June 23, 1902, and by Messrs. L. Andrews 

 and C. H. Bissell in Southington, Conn., in May, 1899 and 1901, as 

 well as by Mr. E. B. Harger in Oxford, Conn., on May 13, 1901. 

 Mr. H. E. Sargent, writing from Wolfboro, N. H., under date of 

 December 9, 1903, says, "It is very ahimdaiit in some cemeteries 

 here, and also by the roadside in some places." He has sent me 

 a specimen collected in Alton, N. H., in 1901 by Mr. George Rob- 

 erts. Mr. E, F. Williams's herbarium contains specimens of this 

 species recently collected in Milton and Halifax, Mass., while Mr. 

 William H. Blanchard writes me that he found this plant growing in 

 a cemetery in Stratton, Vt., on July 7, 1903. Specimens accom- 



