322 Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 



A. flavescens Rydb.: many specimens. 



A. reflexa E. Nels. : Goodding 114 (Pedro Mountains, Wyo.) ; Good- 

 ding 380 (Doyle Creek, Wyo.); A. Nelson 853 (Union Pass, 

 Wyo.). 

 A. pulvinata Greene: Richardson (?), from Hooker's herbarium. 



Antennaria rosea (D. C. Eat.) Greene has a peculiar history. 

 The citation of Eaton should perhaps be omitted, for Eaton* gave 

 no description. The first description was given by myself under 

 the name A. parvifolia,\ on the supposition that it was the same 

 as A. parvifolia Nutt. + It might have been included partly in 

 the description of that species, but Professor Piper has shown that 

 Nuttall's type belongs rather to A. aprica Greene. It was after- 

 wards described by Greene as A. rosea,§ the author giving A. dioica 

 rosea Eaton as a synonym. As that was a nomen nudum, it should 

 be "ignored" as Greene || stated later, and A. rosea is based wholly 

 upon Greene's description. The type of A. rosea would then be 

 Sheldon 128, which is first cited, rather than Watson 652, which is 

 not cited at all. Sheldon 128 is the monotype of Greene's A. 

 sordida.^ The proposer of the latter must have forgotten or 

 ignored what he had done a year earlier. E. Nelson gives A. 

 sordida as a synonym of his A. rosea angustifolia, based on my 

 A. angustifolia.** There is no use of keeping up a variety if the 

 type of the species belongs to the variety! Besides, Sheldon 128 

 and Watson 652 are almost identical. A. angustifolia Rydberg is 

 somewhat similar, but has narrower involucral bracts, of which 

 the inner are very acute. It is not found in the Rocky Mountain 

 region. 



In the New Manual, A. anaphaloides Rydb. is made a synonym 

 of A. pulcherrima. Piper, who is fully as "conservative" as A. 

 Nelson, keeps them distinct, however. So did also E. Nelson. 

 The description of Antennaria pulcherrima in the New Manual is 

 an almost verbatim copy of my description of A. anaphaloides. 

 The description, especially that of the pistillate head, does not 



*Bot. King Exp. 186. 1871. 



tBull Torrey Club 24: 301. 1897. 



JTrans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 406. 



§Pittonia 3: 281. 1898. 



HPittonia 4: 81. 1899. 



fPittonia 4: 81. 1899. 



**Bull. Torrey Club 26: 546. 1899. 



