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mentioned should be regarded as such. The short characteriza- 
tion was, however, drawn principally from my number 2763 from 
Lima, Montana, and this is marked in our herbarium as the type. 
Since more specimens have been seen, both of the Montana plant 
and of that from the Black Hills, it has become evident that they 
are not exactly the same. As the Montana plant is marked as 
the type, I now limit my G. cephaloidea to it. If Jenney’s plant 
or my 886 were to be regarded as the type of G. cephaloidea, this 
would become a synonym of G. congesta and the Montana plant 
should have a new name. As it is, the G. cephaloidea of Brand’s 
monograph should become G. congesta Hooker, and Brand's 
G. congesta is G. iberidifolia Benth. 
Brand divides the Gilia spicata group in two divisions: one 
containing G. spicata, G. globularis and G. trifida, with the corolla- 
lobes (in dry state) dark purple; and G. cephaloidea and G. congesta, 
with lobes of the corolla (in dry state) whitish. The dark purple 
color is simply due to poor drying. Dr. Brand also describes the 
corollas of G. spicata as purple. In fact they are greenish white. 
We have specimens of G. spicata which still retain the greenish 
white color. Such a distinction is scarcely scientific. 
Under Gila congesta iberidifolia, Dr. Brand gives as synonyms 
G. spergulifolia Rydb. and G. roseata Rydb. Evidently Dr. Brand 
had not seen a specimen of G. roseata. This is perhaps closer 
related to his own G. globularis than to G. iberidifolia, except that 
the stems are branched and bear several heads. He had seen a 
specimen of Baker 534, which I referred to G. spergulifolia. When 
doing so I had in mind only the specimen in the herbarium of the 
New York Botanical Garden. I do not know by what this number 
may be represented elsewhere. However, I can not distinguish this 
from Nelson 5430, which Dr. Brand refers to the var. crebrifolia, 
evidently not knowing that the var. Merrillii (G. Merrillii A. Nels.) 
is the original G. crebrifolia Nutt. A duplicate of the type is in 
the Columbia University herbarium. The synonomy of this 
group of Gilias is therefore very mixed. In order to straighten out 
the matter I give the following synonymy: 
GILIA sPICATA Nutt. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. II. 1: 156. 
1848. 
