Morris: North American Plantaginaceae 115 



ably was due to mispronounciation of the name, not to clerical 



error. With 



the Mandan villages and the Yellowstone River, and with only 

 one other river in the Dakotas having a somewhat similar name, 



River. 



Jauke " was the J 



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barium, collected by Nuttall. In the herbarium of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Sciences is Pursh's specimen of his Lagopus from Brad- 

 bury's collection. The far northwestern range of two forms of/ 5 . 



Purshn readily suggests that further study may determine them 

 as distinct species, though at present they strongly intergrade in 

 western Wyoming and Montana and in Oregon and Idaho. One 

 of these was annotated by Dr. Gray as P. Patagonica var. 

 spiniUosa Syn. Fl. N. Amer. It very markedly differs, however, 

 from any forms hitherto referred to spinulosa. With only these 

 facts and the strong intergradations, it is impossible to separate the 

 very unlike extremes of this species. It varies from short, com- 

 pact, heavily-villous, dense-spiked forms of sun-baked plateaus and 

 prairies to the tall, grass-like, glabrate, interrupted-spiked, quite 

 long bracted ones of the cloud-covered mountains. There are no 

 varying anatomical characters to distinguish these forms other than 

 those due to moisture and temperature. 



Mr. G. B. 



Grant, of Lexington, Massachusetts, has sent me 

 specimens of a Plantago collected at Avalon, Santa Catalina Is- 

 land. At first it seemed to be a form of a mainland species, but it 

 diners in many important characters. It is closely related to P. 

 dura Morris, but differs in the following points : The plant is con- 

 spicuous by its brilliant white pubescence over as brilliant a green 

 °' the plant itself, the spikes are coarser and more showy, the 

 bracts are without callous apices and little if at all exceed the 

 lobes of the calyx, and the callous teeth of the leaves. For this 

 handsomest of the western narrow-leaved Plantagos, I propose the 

 name P. speciosa. 



Size, habit and leaf characters, together with dimorphism of 

 the stamens in P. erecta Morris form the basis of separation from 

 erecta of the new species P. obversa which could be included in the 

 °ther on bracteal and floral characters only. 



Reference to the former paper and to the records in this will con- 



