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misve trifidis, floralibus viridibus " superne subito Isete miniatis linea 

 flava iiiterjecta." — Alpine meadows and springs of Mount Adams, 

 Washington Territory, at 6,000 or 7,000 feet of elevation, Suh- 

 dorf, 1885, 1886. — Mr. Suksdorf calls my attention to the differ- 

 ences between this plant and all the forms of C. miniata; which, 

 once seen, are conclusive as to the distinctness of the two species. 

 G. miniata grows in cIumjDS of many stems from a stout stock or 

 perennial root, and is wholly destitute of the filiform subterranean 

 creeping shoots by which the related species loosely spreads and mul- 

 tiplies ; its stems commonly bear one or two flowering branches near 

 the summit, and the red of the bracteal leaves is diffused, instead of 

 ending abruptly. 



BosCHNiAKiA, C. A. Meyer. — In the supplement to the Gamo- 

 petalcB of my Synoptical Flora, I hurriedly noted that B. strohilacea 

 extends northward to Oregon, and that it has a deeply favose seed-coat. 

 I neglected to state that those seeds are globose and large, even as 

 much as a line in length, which needed mention the more that, in the 

 generic character, the seeds are said to be minute. Those of B. glabra 

 I find to be only a quarter of a line long, not " subglobose " however, 

 but mainly oblong. I ought also to have stated, what Mr. Howell's 

 specimen jjlainly showed, that the capsule of B. strohilacea is four- 

 valved, answering to the "four equidistant placentae" in the character 

 of the section, and that the style remains slender, and is at length 

 deciduous from the summit of the globose capsule. These points are 

 now (July, 1886) brought to my attention by my good correspondent, 

 Dr. C. L. Anderson, of Santa Cruz, California, who also sends fine 

 and large fruiting specimens. I have not seen the Himalayan species, 

 which is described as having " orbicular " and " compressed " seeds, of 

 about a third of a line in length, and large reticulations to the hyaline 

 testa. Comparing these with the seeds of B. glabra, the latter are 

 said to be ellipsoid and the hundredth of an inch long, with a close 

 testa. Now in our specimens from Sitka they measure much more 

 than that, as above stated, and they are, as Bentham described them, 

 reticulated, the coat decidedly loose and minutely favose. I have now 

 reason to think that B. Hookeri and my B. strohilacea may be the same 

 species. For Dr. Macoun sends us a form of the latter of a size not 

 larger than Hooker's figure of the former, still, however, with the 

 broad and partially imbricating scales of B. strohilacea. However 

 that may be, the two sections of the genus may be contrasted as fol- 

 lows, while B. Himalaica may be of a third. 



