﻿BOTANICAL GAZETTE 



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Pedicularis contorta Benth. var. ctenophora (Rydb.), n. 

 comb. — P. ctenophora Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 24:293. 1897. 

 — Distinguished from the species by the more or less villous-ciliate 

 calyx base. The variety has a purplish corolla, that of the species 

 usually being yellow. Both forms occur in Montana and Yellow- 

 stone Park, but the variety seems to be confined to the eastern 

 part of the plants' range. 



Besides the type, the following collections may be noted: Montana: 

 near snow, July 17, 1880, Watson (326); Yellowstone Park: 1884, R. S. 

 Williams (809); Wyoming: Bighorn Mountains, July 19, 1900, /. G. Jack. 



Mimulus Langsdorfii Don var. microphyllus (Benth.), n. 

 comb. — M. microphyllus Benth. DC. Prodr. 10:371. 1846; M. 

 luteus L. var. depauperatus Gray. — As pointed out by Gray in 

 Syn. Fl. 448. 1886, this often grows with the typical form. Such 

 is not always the case, however; and when it is found by itself 

 its slender and few-flowered stems, and small leaves and flowers 

 make it hard to consider it as identical with the well developed state. 



Castilleja pilosa (Wats.) Rydb. var. inverta (Nels. and 

 Macbr.), n. comb. — C. fasciculata A. Nels. var. inverta Nels. and 

 Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 55:381. 1913. — Although bearing a striking 

 resemblance to the species to which we first referred it, the plant 

 is rather a variation of C. pilosa, since it has the unequally cleft 

 calyx of that species. The short corolla and the short, fine pubes- 

 cence seem to make it the connecting link between two groups in 

 this genus. 



Castilleja confusa Greene, Pitt. 4:1. 1899. — An examination 

 of a large amount of material in this group (the miniata group), 

 both in herbaria and in the field, has convinced us that some of 

 the characters relied upon to maintain proposed species are both 

 inconstant and inconsequential. For instance, C. confusa, when 

 rightly interpreted, should not be confined to plants that have the 

 two primary calyx lobes so deeply cleft that the calyx appears 

 4-lobed, for this character exists in all degrees, but should include 

 all those plants of its alliance with galea only one-half to one-third 

 as long as the tube. The latter is a fairly constant character and 

 must be the chief if not the only means, often, of separating C. 

 confusa from C. miniata, in which it was at one time included. 



