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,t 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 Eatonasasynonym. As that wasa 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. angustifola.** 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. ‘|! 
sais Torrey Ctab 24: 301. 1897. 
**Bull. Torrey eae 26: 546. 1899. 
