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MUHLENBERGIA 



NOTES OX THK FLORA OF NEVADA—! 

 Bv A. A. Heller 



It was my intention originally to make this particular paper 

 the second in the series on the species, especially the Nevada 

 ones, described by Dr. Kellogg. But Kellogg's species concern- 

 ing which I wish to write have been so universally misunder- 

 stood as well as misrepresented, that it seems best to take them 

 one at a time and reproduce his original figures, or illustrate 

 them anew from fresh material, or give both, as was done in the 

 case of / tola aurea. 



ERIOGONUM MACULATUM Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 1S8. 1906. 

 No. S644, collected June 28, 1907, at Truckee Pass, Washoe 

 county, some six or seven miles east of Reno, where the Truckee 

 river enters the gorge it has cut through the Virginia moun- 

 tains. The plant is fairly plentiful in that region and has also 

 been collected near Reno, as well as farther east, about Wads- 

 worth. It ranges over a wide extent of territory, the type hav- 

 ing been collected in Owen's valley, California. We have a 

 specimen from Goldfield, and one from Moapa, in the southeast- 

 ern part of the stale, in Clark county. According to specimens 

 in our herbarium, Eriogonum angulosum vars. patens and flab- 

 ellatum Gandoger, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 42: 187. 1906, 

 are forms of this species, and no doubt var. pauciflorum is the 

 same, for nothing else in the vicinity of Reno, excepting per- 

 haps E. pusillum, could be confused with this species. These 

 varieties merely represent individual variations, principally due 

 to difference in age of the specimens, and are not worthy oi 

 names. The statement that the flowers are white in two of 

 them is no doubt an error. The flowers of the specimens in the 



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