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nothing. It is very doubtful if the several segregate species proposed 
in this group can be maintained as they are founded on these or other 
characters equally trivial. However, the variation treated here is so 
striking in its extreme form that it is worthy varietal designation. 
Since Dr. Greene failed to indicate any definite specimen, the following 
representative collections are noted. Specimens examined: CoLo- 
RADO: plains, Pueblo, 1873, Edward L. Greene (tyPE). NEw Mexico: 
Mogollon Mountains, on the middle fork of the Gila River, Socorro 
Co., August 9, 1903, O. B. Metcalf, no. 431. ARIZONA: vicinity of 
Flagstaff, June 4, 1898, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, nos. 40, 204. Mexico: 
Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, May 13, 1899, E. A. Goldman, no. 407. 
OREOCARYA SUFFRUTICOSA (Torr.) Greene, var. abortiva (Greene), 
comb. nov.— QO. abortiva Greene, Pitt. iii. 114 (1896). Krynitzka 
multicaulis Torr., var. abortiva (Greene) Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 
xiii. 5 (1910). Jones (1. c.) has pointed out that the incurving of the 
nutlets is a characteristic common to all members of the group. 
When only one nutlet forms (as is sometimes the case in this plant 
and also in others) the ventral keel is larger than when more mature. 
It then, of course, seems to end even more abruptly. The Californian 
plant simply represents an extreme in this matter. It is otherwise 
allied to O. suffruticosa rather than to the other species of the group. 
See the remarks by Parish, Eryth. vii. 95 (1899), which further 
prove the plant to be unworthy specific rank. 
Oreocarya virginensis (Jones), comb. nov.— Krynitzskia glomerata 
(Pursh) Gray, var. virginensis Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. xiii. 5 (1910). 
Very distinct from 0. glomerata, which has narrowly ovate not at all 
winged nutlets. Besides the specimens from La Verkin and Diamond 
Valley, Utah, cited by Mr. Jones, another from the same region, Viz.: 
no. 173 by Dr. C. C. Parry, 1874, is of this species. 
Orrocarya sericea (Gray) Greene, Pitt. i. 58 (1887).— O. humilis 
(Gray) Greene, 1. c. iii. 112 (1896)? Krynitzkia sericea Gray, var. 
fulvocanescens Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sei. ser. 2, v. 710 (1895). 
Eritrichium glomeratum (Pursh) DC., var. ? fulvocanescens Wats. Bot. 
King Exped. 243 (1871) in part, not E. fulvocanescens Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. x. 61 (1875) i. e. Krynitzkia echinoides Jones, |. c. 709. Mr. 
Jones (I. c.) assigned a new name to the plant collected by Fendler in 
New Mexico and labeled in herb. by Dr. Gray “E. fulvocanescens,” 
on the ground that the name must be applied to a very different plant 
collected by Watson in Nevada (no. 853), because this was the plant 
for which the name was first published. It is true that Watson took 
his no. 853 to be Gray’s fulvocanescens in herb.; but the first specific 
