84 OsTERHOUT: WHAT Is GERANIUM CAESPITOSUM JAMES? 
. sum, probably, is that Dr. Gray’s solution of the problem has 
been largely accepted, and that the type locality of G. Parryi 
is some distance from, and at a much higher altitude than, 
the place where G. caespitosum was collected. The type loca- 
lity of the former is, ‘‘from the head waters of Clear Creek and 
the alpine ridges lying east of ‘Middle Park,’ Colorado Terri- 
tory. C.C. Parry, coll., 1861.’ It is one of those plants whose 
range is from the foothills to the high mountains. The localities 
where it has been collected, as listed by Dr. Rydberg in his 
Flora of Colorado, include Boulder, Colorado Springs, Idaho 
Springs, Pike’s Peak, and the head waters of Clear Creek. 
There can be scarcely a doubt that the same Geranium has 
continued to grow ‘‘about the sandstone ledges”’ from the time 
when Dr. James collected it to the present time; and, granting 
that this is so, G. atropurpureum Heller is all right, but G. caes- 
pitosum or, since the law of priority should hold, G. intermedium 
James should take the place of G. Parryi (Engelm.) Heller, and 
the latter become a synonym. 
WIinpsor, CoLorapo 
