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labeled Streptopus hrevipes, Baker, which accurately agree 

 with my fruiting specimens and with Baker's description of 

 5. f brevipes. As pointed out to me by Dr. Rydberg-, Curator 

 of the Bronx Herbarium, my Hozvering specimens accurately 

 agree with the elaborate description of Regel. The position, 

 therefore, seems to be that a fruiting plant has been named 

 Streptopusf brevipes, and the flowering condition of the 

 same plant has been called Kruhsea Tilingiana. Apart from 

 the priority of the latter name, sufficient distinctive features 

 exist in the present plant to give it generic rank. The 

 slightly amplexicaul leaves, the rotate, claret and green 

 flowers with their perigynous stamens, the absence of a style 

 and the very rudimentary indication of a three-lobed stigma, 

 all contrast with the amplexicaul leaves of Streptopus, its 

 funnel-shaped, white or pink flowers, the hypogynous 

 stamens and the style with three-lobed or divided stigma. 



In the "Proceedings of the American Academy" for 1879, 

 Volume XTV, page 269, Dr. Sereno Watson states that 

 Eschscholtz's specimens collected at Sitka and referred to 

 Kruhsea Tilingiana, belong to Streptopus roseus, Michx. 

 He continues, "On the other hand, the Streptopus roseus of 

 Wright's collection in Ochotsk Sea is the same as Tiling's 

 plant (from the same locality), upon which Kruhsea was 

 founded, but is properly a Streptopus {i. e., Streptopus 

 ajanensis, Tiling)." As Dr. Watson does not offer any 

 evidence to establish his statement, the present specimens 

 seem to confirm the identity of the series. From a phy- 

 togeographical standpoint the present specimen acquires 

 exceptional interest as the plant is now recorded from 

 Glacier (Farr), Cascades (Lyall), Sitka (Esch.), Ajan 

 (Tiling), Amur (Maxim.). Probably owing to lack of 

 fresh material, Regel, Tiling and Maximo wicz have over- 

 looked the strongly recurved, green-tipped condition of the 

 perianth segments, their evident differentiation into sepals 

 and petals, and the sessile stigma. 



Lychnis attenuata, sp. nov. — Alpine, tufted, from a stout 



