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Houston, Elihu Hall, April 20, 1872, no. 773 ; San Diego, 

 Miss Mary B. Croft, 1884, no. 60a ; Del Rio, G. C. Nealley, 1892 ; 

 Fort Clark, Kinney Co., Edgar A. Mearns, 1892, Dec. 3, no. 

 1233, and 1893, April 29, no. 1424; A. A. Heller, 1894, Greg- 

 ory, San Patricio Co., April 14, no. 1580, and Kerrville, Kerr Co., 



May 14-21, no. 1767 (the type); Kerrville, J. G. Smith, June 21, 

 1897. 



The C. vcrticillata var. intermedia of Vasey, judging from what 

 we take to be the original material, comprises two well-marked forms. 

 This material is in the National Herbarium and consists of three 

 sheets on which are written, presumably in the handwriting of Dr. 

 Vasey, these words : " Intermediate between cncullata and verticil- 



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lata" No definite indication of what was considered the type occurs 

 on any one of the sheets and in fact a varietal name is not indicated. 

 The plants on one of the sheets above referred to were collected 

 by F. VV. Thurow, at Hockley, Texas, in 1891, and belong to the 

 preceding species. The other two sheets, the specimens of which 

 were collected, on one by G. C. Nealley, in Texas, and on the other 

 by Elihu Hall, at Houston, in the same state, in 1872, no. 773 

 have been referred here. Dr. Vasey, so far as can be ascertained, 

 never published such a variety himself. Mr. L. H. Dewey, how- 

 ever, as indicated in the synonymy above, did publish a variety 

 intermedia and accredited its authorship to Vasey, but as this is in- 

 validated by the C. intermedia of A. Richard, as previously shown 

 in the synonymy, the lack of definite information as to just what 

 is the type loses much of its importance. On account of this im- 

 possibility of identifying the type of the variety, we have thought 

 it best, in order that authentic material of what we have above 

 designated as C. latisquamea may be accessible to a large number 

 of herbaria, to take as the type of this new species material from 

 some large collection which is widely distributed, not only in tins 

 country, but also in Europe. Mr. A. A. Heller's no. i/ 6 /- co1 " 

 lected at Kerrville, Kerr Co., Texas, May 14-21, 1894, seems h t 

 to serve this purpose. 



6. Chloris cuccllata Bisch. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 19: 357- I '^ 3 ' 



Chloris verticil I at a var. aristnlata Torr. Pac. R. R. Sun'. P°P l 



Rep. 2 : Bot. 176. 1855. 



