2Jt8 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Neillia opuUfoUa, Benth., seems to be distinguished from N. Torreyi, 

 Watson, by its glabrous pods. I collected a large number of pods of 

 N. opulifolia this season and find that those of the smaller foriiis are 

 shining with scattered woolly hairs, but those of the large forms (four 

 to six feet high), found on the plains at the base of the foot-hills, are 

 woolly and the leaves are large, slightly lobed aud crenate. I notice 

 that the pubescence of both species is stellate under the microscope. 

 The pedicels of both species are either slender and long or thick and 

 short, and are often almost glabrous. 



Grindelia fiquarrosa., Dunal, is occasionally rayless, v\ith larger 

 heads. 



I have a few fronds of Cryptogramme acrostichoides, R. Br., fertile 

 below and sterile above, after the manner of Onoclea sensibilis, var. 

 ohtusilohata. 



Aqailegia chrysantha, Gray, seems hardly distinct from A. cmrulea, 

 for the flowers are lavender often, sepals broadly ovate, broader than 

 the petals; but with the small flowers and small leaves of A. chry- 

 santha occasionally I have found both colors of flowers on diff"erent 

 stems from the same root. The leaves are sometimes larger with the 

 same small flowers, or small with much larger flowers. At Colorado 

 Springs it is a low altitude plant, seldom reaching 7,500 feet. Simi- 

 lar observations were made by Rothrock of the Wheeler Survey. 



Among the interesting plants collected by me in Colorado this 

 season I notice the rare F.soralca Jnjpogfca^ Nutt., a HeUanthcinum ap- 

 ])arently new but not in flower, Ampclopsls qumque.folfa, Mx., with 

 boat-shaped cucullate petals that do not fall as soon as they open, 

 but remain for some time, and leaves with falcate tips, it may prove 

 to be a good variety. Also Astragalus Pattersoni, Gray, a variety of 

 Potentilla PennsylvaM'ca., L.^ not strigosa ; erect, tall, leaflets pinnate, 

 simply toothed, not revolute. Also Ai^clep/'a.'^ Hallii, Gray, Suseda 

 fndicosaj var. (King's Bep.). Smilax herbacerr , L.. var. rnndora seems 

 sufficiently distinct to rank as a variety; scentless; seeds, three ; 

 leaves with Ave prominent ribs, the other two or four less prominent 

 or reduced to irregular lines on the margin; leaves smooth on both 

 sides except short white hairs on the reticulations beneath ; other- 

 wise as the typical form. The plant was collected June 18, 1879. 



I have also quite a number of new Fungi already described in the 

 Gazette. — Marcus E. Jones. 



