548 MACBRIDE. 
use of the name was by Dr. Gray (1. c.) and although he cited Watson’s 
variety as a synonym his description is entirely based on Fendler’s 
plant. Furthermore, Article 47 of the International Rules states, 
“When a species... .is divided into two or more groups of the same 
nature, if one of the forms was distinguished or described earlier than 
the other, the name is retained for that form.’ The name fulvo- 
canescens must apply, then, to Fendler’s plant, since it was first dis- 
tinguished and first described as a species. Accordingly it is rather 
the plant collected by Watson and wrongly included by him in his 
description of fulvocanescens as a variety of glomerata which needs 
the new name unless already described. The latter alternative seems 
to represent the truth. Jones (I. c.) and Greene (I. c. 111) were 
evidently writing about the same plant; and when Dr. Gray proposed 
the name sericea he included under it his earlier Eritrichium glomera- 
tum, var. humile. The material in the Gray Herbarium would indi- 
cate that he was justified in this; but Dr. Greene in using the name 
specifically, wrote “E. glomeratum, var. humile Gray in part.” There- 
fore, if O. humilis Greene is distinct from 0. sericea, the Watson plant 
from Nevada discussed above must beat the former rather than the 
latter name. 
Oreocarya oblata (Jones), comb. nov.— Krynitzkia oblata Jones, 
Contrib. W. Bot. xiii. 4 (1910). Very distinct from all other species 
having long white corollas. O. Shockleyi Eastw. and K. mensana 
Jones are the only other members of its immediate group. The latter 
is probably a good species, nearer the former than is 0. oblata, but I 
have seen no specimen. Q. oblata probably is not uncommon 1n 
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Specimens examined: TEXAS: 
among rocks (corolla white), El Paso, March, 1851, George T hurber, 
no. 147, Sept. 1884, Marcus E. Jones, 1881, G. R. Vasey, March, 1835, 
Asa Gray. New Mexico: 1851-52, C. Wright, no. 1566, in : 
CRYPTANTHA BARBIGERA (Gray) Greene, var. inops (Brandegee), 
comb. nov.— Krynitzkia barbigera Gray, var. inops Brandegee, Zoe, 
v. 228 (Sept. 1906). Mrs. Brandegee on one of her labels has rightly 
cited as synonyms of the above variety, C. nevadensis Nels. & Kenn. 
and C. arenicola Heller, published two and three months later respec- 
tively. The very slender acuminate nutlet is the principal character 
of the variety. The muriculations, especially near the tip of the fruit, 
are often very sharp. A specimen collected by Dr. Gray in the Grand 
Cafion in 1885 and included by him in the species must now be 
referred to the variety. 
