86 Rhodora [April 



Scutellaria epilobiifolia Hamilton, Mon. Gen. Scut. 32 (1832). 

 S. galcricvlata of Am. authors, not L. 



Two striking color-variations occur: 



Forma rosea (Rand & Redfield), n. comb. S. galcricvlata, 

 forma rosea Rand & Redfield, Fl. Mt. Desert, 137 (1894). 



Forma albiflora (Millsp.) n. comb. S. galcricvlata, forma 

 albiflora Millsp. Fl. W. Va. 428 (1892). 



Parallel color-forms of »S. lateriflora are: 



S. lateriflora L., forma rhodantha, n. f., corolla rosea. Type: 

 alluvial thickets and woods near mouth of Dartmouth River, Gaspe 

 Co., Quebec, August 2(5 and 27, 1904, Collins, Fernald & Pease in 

 Gray Herb. 



S. lateriflora, forma albiflora (Farwell), n. comb. S. lateri- 

 flora, var. albiflora Farwell, Mich. Acad. Sci. Ann. Rep. xix. 249 

 (1917). 



Gray Herbarium. 



CORRECTIONS IN NOMENCLATURE. 



Oliver Atkins Farwell. 



Carex gigantea, Rudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. VII. 99. pi. 10, f. 2, 

 1804. Rudge's name has been adopted by Robinson & Fernald in 

 Gray's New Manual and by Mackenzie in Britton & Brown's 2nd 

 Ed. of the Illustrated Flora for the plant named by L. H. Bailey, 

 C. grandis, i. e., the C. gigantea of Dewey. An examination of Rudge's 

 plate shows an achene with the width and length about equal and with 

 knobbed angles, the knobs of the lateral angles being faintly shown 

 but that of the intermediate angle is quite prominent. It is a very 

 good illustration of the achene of C. lupvliformis Sartwell. The 

 achene of C. grandis Bailey, as illustrated by Robinson & Fernald, 

 I. c. p. 250, f. 541, and by Britton & Brown, 1. c. 441, f. 1109, is de- 

 cidedly different; the width is much greater than the length, the 

 angles are broadly rounded but not knobbed, and the general out- 

 line is transversely oblong while that of C. gigantea Rudge is rhom- 

 boidal or kite-shaped. It seems, therefore, that Bailey was quite 

 right in considering C. gigantea Dew. to be a species distinct from 

 C. gigantea Rudge. These two forms and C. lupulina are best 

 considered as varying forms of one widely distributed polymorphous 

 species to which "gigantea" is the earliest name applied, and most 

 appropriately so. 



