128 Rhodora [JuLy 
SOME INTERESTING COLOR FORMS. 
ALBERT HANFORD Moore. 
Tae author has long wondered that with some activity in recent 
years in the matter of naming color forms what is probably the most 
striking instance of the kind seems to have remained unchristened, 
namely the red-flowered Pedicularis canadensis L. It seems desir- 
able to give it botanical standing. 
Some of the most beautiful of our wild flowers are to be found among 
the rarer shades of flowers familiarly found in other colors, such, for 
instance, as the pink and white forms of Hepatica which were men- 
tioned already in the writings of Prelinnaean authors. The Hepatica 
occurring also in Europe, where a more extensive literature on forms 
exists, It is not possible at this time to say what these should be called, 
but they have been described as forms. The names thus far known 
to the author are nomenclatorially incorrect, however. One of the 
most pleasing of the color variations is the pink Lupine. I have seen a 
large patch of sandy soil in Andover, Mass., bright with this charming 
plant, which is called Lupinus perennis L. f. roseus Britton.! In con- 
trast to this is the white form, which the present author first observed 
growing near it, while the collector of the type specimen found it with 
the blue. "This tricolor series is very frequent in species whose com- 
monest form is blue. 
While collecting in West Virginia I obtained a white variant of 
Polygonum hydropiperoides Michx. parallelling the white form of 
P. Persicaria L., called by Millspaugh in his flora of West Virginia ? 
P. Persicaria f. albiflora Millsp. 
The names of the forms mentioned above, then, are as follows: 
PEDICULARIS CANADENSIS L. f. praeclara A. H. Moore, f. nov. flori- 
bus rubris. 
Type specimen: MassacHUSETTS, mixed woods, estate of Joseph 
Fay, Woods Hole, Falmouth, May 28, 1904 (A. H. Moore, no. 1670 
in Herb. Moore). 
LUPINUS PERENNIS L. f. roseus Britton, Bull. Tor. Bot. Club, 
xvii, 124 (May 9, 1890) floribus rubricundis. 
1 Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xvii, 124 (May 9, 1890). Britton truly describes them, 
when he says, '' Flowers beautifully pink.” 
? W. Va. Agr. Exper, Sta. ii (Bull. no. 24), 432 (June, 1892). 
