1895.] North American Amaranthacee. I61 
Torrey’s description of G. Sonore was founded on no. 
vicinity and date. But Wright 1749 was erroneously sup- 
posed to have serrate crested bractlets. Drawings on the 
label of the Columbia College specimen of Wright showing 
the cristate character must have been based on a Thurber 
Specimen, resulting from confusion of material. The only 
Thurber specimens seen of that date and locality (1013 and 
946) were properly referred by Dr. Watson to G. nitida. We 
have examined numerous other specimens correctly labelled 
G. Sonore, all of which agree with the Wright type in the 
absence of crested bractlets. In consequence of the absolute 
identity of the type of G. decipiens Wats. (Palmer 27 of 1885 
in herb. J. D. Smith and Nat. herb.) with these specimens, 
we have been led to reduce G decipiens to a synonym of G. 
Sonore. 
+ + Low and cespitose. 
8. G. CAESPITOSA Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 181. 1859. 
Very low, white villous, cespitose, spreading with thick 
woody caudex: leaves obovate, obtuse, the radical with at- 
tenuate base, the two cauline subsessile: peduncles short and 
simple: heads ovate, about 2™ long, usually not subtended by 
leaves: flowers shining, yellowish white: bractlets hyaline, 
not keeled. —Mountains of New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora. 
Types: Wright, Bigelow, 1752, 1753, in herb. Gray, Colum- 
bia College and Nat. herb.; Thurber, 256 of 1851, in herb. 
Gray and Columbia College; Capt. E. K. Smith, in herb. 
Columbia College; Schott, in herb. Columbia College. * 
Herbarium Lake Forest University. 
*Gomphrena Tuerckheimii. 
Pile tage Tuerckheimii Vatke, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 187-, fide J. Donnell 
1th, 
branching perennial with tetragonal stem: leaves short-petioled, ovate, 
p i low, scabrous above: heads small (less 
mala, Coban, Depart. Alta Verapaz, 7uerckheim, 416 in 1885) which he has 
identified as Telanthera Tuerckheimii Vatke. Having seen neither the type nor 
3 t. If he is correct, Vatke’s species undoubtedly belongs with Gomphrena. 
ut if pees mistaken in their supposed identity then our plant becomes a new 
° hrena,. 
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