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V. Myrtilbis in the bright green branches, the small leaves, which 

 are more pointed and scarcely half the size of those of that species, 

 in the smaller nearly sessile flowers and the small bright red ber- 

 ries, which become dark purple only when fully ripe, never bluish 

 black as in V. Myi'tilbis, It is common in Montana and was col- 

 lected by Flodman in the Spanish Basin, no. 712. 



Gentiana calycosa monticola, 



G. calycosa siiicta Griseb. Gen. & Sp. Gent. 292. 1839. Not 

 G. stricta Willd., nor Klotzsch. 



This beautiful little gentian was collected on the top of Yogo 

 Baldy in the Little Belt Mountains, Aug. 24, 1896, Flodman, 

 no. 726. 



PoLEMONiUM viscosuM Nutt. Joum. Acad. Phil. (II.) i: 154. 



1847. Not Gray. 



In describing P. viscosum, Gray* states that it has rounded 

 calyx-lobes, and gives as reference: PI. Gamb. 154 mainly, ex- 

 cluding what relates to the " elongated lanceolate segments of the 

 calyx." The Plajitae Gauibellii were published in the Journal 

 above cited. Nuttall describes there the calyx-segments as being 

 elongated lanceolate, both in the Latin description and in the gen- 

 eral notes written in English. In order to settle the matter I have 

 written to the Curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 

 Mr. Stewardson Brown, who has kindly loaned me Nuttall's type. 

 This is not a very good specimen, is past blooming, but it is satis- 

 factory for my purpose. It shows that the inflorescence was sub- 

 capitate or subspicate and that the calyx-segments were elongated 

 lanceolate. On the same sheet as Nuttall's type there is another 

 specimen collected by T. S. Brandegee in the state of Washington; 

 under the two specimens is penciled in the handwriting of the late 

 Mr. Redfield the following remarks : " These all seem quite difler- 

 ent from P. co.^fertuvi in the flowers and mode of flowenng. Yet I 

 cannot fit them to Gray's description of what he regards as Nutt- 

 all's P. viscosum y 



From the more complete material I have at hand, viz. : speci- 

 mens collected by J. H. Flodman, no. 742, August 19, 1896, on 



* Syn. Fl. 2 : part i , 1 50. 



