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Pyrola oxypetala, C. F. Austin, in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 302 (1867). 
~ [Plate CLVIIL.] 
The specimens on which this species is based were collected on 
hills at Deposit, Delaware county, N. Y., by Mr. Austin in 1860, 
and so far as I am informed, nothing like them has ever been 
found anywhere else. From Mr. Austin’s original label and manu- 
script description preserved with a type specimen in the Her- 
barium of Columbia College, it would appear that he obtained 
very little of it, as he says it was “very rare.” The plant is dis- 
tinguished from all its congeners by its acuminate petals and 
spreading or ascending flowers. Dr. Torrey has annotated the 
herbarium sheet “ abnormal form of P. chlorantha?” and Dr. Gray 
in his Synoptical Flora remarks “ anomalous, perhaps monstrous.” 
Whatever its relation to other species may be, the characters of 
the original specimen are distinct enough, and in order to direct 
attention anew to this interesting form I have thought it worth 
while to present an illustration in the hope that some one may 
encounter it again. 
Anagallis cerulea, Schreb. This is maintained as a species 
distinct from the common A. arvensis, L, by Koch, the authors of 
the last edition of the London Catalogue of British Plants and 
other European botanists. Its character is not alone its blue 
corolla, but that the corolla-segments are glabrous, those of A. 
arvensis being glandular-ciliate. Babington) who refers it to a 
variety of A. arvensis as does Ledebour, suggests that it is proba- 
bly distinct. It would be well if those who have the opportunity 
would carefully examine these plants in the field and record their | 
observations. Both the red and blue-flowered pee app ae 
- occur in North America. 
Paronychia pusilla, Greene, Pittonia, i. 302, Fl. Fran. 131, from 
‘‘an isolated outcropping of rock in the mouth of a cafion open- 
ing to the plains at the eastern base of Mt. Diablo, near Bethany, © 
Cal.,” is Herniaria cinerea, D. C., a plant of Southern Europe. | 
