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varietal name. The investigation of this material, as well as that 

 in the herbaria of the New York Botanical Garden and of Colum- 

 bia University, which latter contains a sheet of Fendler's no. 43, 

 upon which the variety was founded, proved very interesting. It 

 showed that a number of distinct 'forms have been included under 

 one name, not only in the original collection, but among later col- 

 lections as well. Some of those have already been segregated by 

 Professor Greene, but there are others which seem equally worthy 

 of characterization. 



I : 23. 1897. Not D 



Draba Helleriana Greene, Pittonia, 4: 17. 1899 



Draba aiirca van stylosa A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. IL 33 : 



243. 1862, in part. 



Draba stylosa Heller, Plant World, 







stylosa Turcz. 1854. 



\Micn the writer raised Draba anrca var. stylosa of Gray to 

 specific rank in 1897, he failed to note that the name was invah- 

 dated by previous use. In the recent dia<,niosis of Draba Heller- 

 iana by Professor Greene, our no. 3669, an "authentic specimen 

 from type locahty," and Professor Wooton's no. 275, collected in 

 the White mountains, Lincoln county, southeastern New Mexico, 



were cited as types. 



After the description, Professor Greene further remarks that 

 " Mr. Heller's statement, printed on his labels ' Authentic speci- 

 men, from type locality,' is mere bombast. Fendler collected no 

 ^uch plant as this ; and Mr. Heller did not find the subalpine 

 Fendlerian type on which Gray founded his D. aurca var. stylosa.'' 



Perhaps my investigations have been very superficial, but so 

 far I have failed to discover Professor Greene's reason for the posi- 

 tive assertion that "Fendler collected no such plant as this." 



Probably Professor Greene has not seen the type .sheet of D. aiirea 

 var. stylosa, for on it are two fine examples of this same D. Heller- 

 iana, and the label says Fendler collected them. Mr. Fendler's 

 field note also shows that he collected this particular form, for the 

 latter part of it reads : " More rarely in the creek bottom and low 

 banks of the creek." In the rich soil on the " low banks of the 

 creek," is exactly where the specimen of mine which Professor 

 Greene has seen, was obtained, and necessarily near the spot of 



