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Anna L, Dailey. They were collected at Evergreen, Col- 

 orado, where Miss Dailey noted them during several years. 

 It was her opinion that the plants had become more numer- 

 ous since she first noticed them, 



Mr. George E. Osterhout of New Windsor, Colorado, 

 reports this form as frequent in Estes Park, Colorado. 



Some years ago, the writer found several plants with the 

 spurless petals growing among the typical form in Platte 

 Canon, Colorado. 



In the "Gardener's Chronicle," Vol. XVI, 1881, p. 16, 

 the following note occurs concerning A. ccBriilea: 



"Mr. E.G. Loder sends us a spurless flower of Aquilegta 

 ccBi'iiIca quite similar to the European stellate Columbines. 

 The long, white, spurred petals are, in this case, absent and 

 replaced by an additional whorl of ovate, acute, blue sepals. 

 A few years since, Mr. Loder tells us he ' collected seeds 

 of A. ccerulea at an elevation of 10,300 feet, not far from 

 South Park, Colorado.' The seeds were sown in North- 

 amptonshire in 1879. ^ f^w plants flowered last summer; 

 but this year they have flowered most abundantly and the 

 individual flowers are quite as fine as in their native habitat. 

 Among the seedlings, one plant bears white flowers and 

 others spurless flowers." 



Aquilegia micrantha Mancosana, var. nov. 



This is the plant that was first described in "Zoe," Vol. 

 II, 1891, p. 226, as A. ecalcarata. Afterwards it was rede- 

 scribed and figured from better specimens in Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. IV, p. 261. It is without doubt 

 merely a degenerate variety of A. micrantha, which is ex- 

 tremely variable in both flowers and foliage, as I have in- 

 dicated in Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. VI, p. 280. 



It seems desirable to orive this a more distinctive varietal 

 name, so I take this opportunity and name it after the region 

 where it occurs. 



To Dr. B. L. Robinson, I am much indebted for the 

 looking up of some references to which I had not access. 



