. 
NOMENCLATORIAL NOTES ON CERTAIN AM. PLANTS 127 
illus. Fl. Ed. 2, (1): 207. 1918; Robinson & Fernald in Gray, Man. Ed. 7, 
1908. 
A rather anomalous species, closely related to Agrostis 
hyemalis, possessing awned spikelets, and at higher altitudes 
with a tendency to form tufts with numerous slender radical 
leaves. The species as here considered may be regarded as 
based upon Agrostis caespitosus Torrey (1824), who first de- 
seribed it fully. The awn, when present, varies in length and 
springs from the back of the flowering glume. 
In recent floras this has been designated as A. oreophila. 
Trinius, but that according to Hitchcock is, as to type Sper: 
men, a small erect form of Agrostis perennans. 
_ Torrey’s type was collected on Mt. Beacon, near Fishkill, and 
it also occurs on Bald mountain, Herkimer county, Plaine, 
Haberer; Essex county, Peck, and Hamilton county, Peck. 
TRIANTHELLA House, Gen. nom. nov. 
Tofieldia, Sect. Triantha Nutt. Gen. (1): 235. 1818. 
Triantha Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. (17): 490. 1879. Not Trianthus 
Hook. f. Fl. Antart. (2): 320. 1846. - 
TRIANTHELLA GLUTINOSA (Michx.) House, comb. nov. 
Narthecium glutinosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. (1): 210. 1803. 
Tofieldia glutinosa Pers. Syn. (1): 399. 1805. e 
Triantha glutinosa Baker, 1. c. 
TRIANTHELLA RACEMOSA (Walt.) House, comb. nov. 
Melanthium racemosum Walt. Fl. Car. 126. 1788. 
Narthecium pubens Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. (1): 209. 1803. 
Tofieldia pubens Willd. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. (2): 28. 1808. 
Tofieldia racemosa B. S. P. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 55. 1888. 
Triantha racemosa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 249. 1908. 
In this connection it is necessary to consider the generic 
name Conradia or’ (Leptilix) Raf. Neogent. 3. 1825, which 
reads as follows: 
“Diff. Tofieldia; cal. tridentate, cor. six parted, stam. six, 
base broad, pistil triangular, three short styles and capitate 
stigmas; one capsule, three angular, three locular, three valve, 
six seeded. Type all the American species of Tofieldia; the 
European have three capsules, six petals, etc.” 
Tofieldia palustris Huds., with a deeply 3-lobed capsule, 
occurs in Europe and across the subarctic portions of Amer- 
ica, a fact probably unknown to Rafinesque, which may ex- 
