274 _ THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
branched, appressed pubescent, spreading or muricate hairs 
few or none; leaves narrow, under a dm. in length and less 
than 16 mm in width, repand denticulate; inflorescence com- 
pact, leafy ; ovary 4-7 mm long, calyx-tube 2 cm long, bud club- 
shaped, red, 5 mm long, appendages separate; petals small, cu- 
neate obcordate, slightly broader than long, 9 mm long by 10 
mm broad at the apex; casule subfusiform cylindric, about 2 
cm long, appressed pubescent, 4 valved, each valve 2-lobed. 
These plants undoubtedly are the Linnaean @. parviflora; the 
small size of the flowers is not an accidental condition due to 
the lateness of the season in which they appear or to any other 
cause; but a fixed status. I have observed these plants over a 
period of 10 years and the small flower is a constant character 
whether the plants flower early or late, or whether they appear 
on normal plants or on second growth due to cutting down, etc. 
Reported in the 19th Report of the Michigan Acad. Sci. as @ 
muricata var. parviflora Gates. Additional locations are: 
Banks of the Clinton River near Rochester, No. 6851, October 
3; Marquette, No. 195b, July 6, 1895; Detroit, No. 1992, July 
23, 1906. 
Var. canescens (T. and G.) n. comb. G@. biennis var. canes- 
cens T. and G. Fl. N. A. I. (1840) 492. Gy’. strigosa Rydb. Sim- 
ilar but larger and with larger flowers. Reported in Papers, 
Michigan Acad. Sci. Arts and Lets. I (1923) 96, as GE. muri- 
cata var. canescens (T. and G.) Robinson. Additional locations 
are: Geddes, No. 2114, August 21, 1909; No. 455314 Royal 
Oak, Sept. 8, 1917. 
Var muricata (L.) n. comb. G. muricata L. Syst., Ed. 12, 
(1767) 263. Stems copiously and muricately hirsute. These 
probably are but varying phases of one species the oldest name 
for which is GZ. parviflora L. common throughout the State. 
Keweenaw Co., No. 195, Sept. 18, 1884; Marquette, No. 195c, 
July 6, 1895; Detroit, No. 195d, Aug. 3, 1905; Rochester, No. 
2959, July 28, 1912, and No. 2972, Aug. 4, 1912; Parkedale, 
No. 2914, July 29, 1912; Stony Creek, No. 3828, Aug. 9, 1914; 
Dearborn No. 5596, Aug. 15, 1920. 
(nother biennis, L. Stems simple or branched, appressed 
pubescent, muricate hairs none, spike compact and leafless. 
