8 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
The original description of this species implies that the upper 
leaf-surfaces are glabrous. However they are uniformly, although 
minutely, strigillose. Mr. Heller informs me that the plant 1s 
plentiful about Montesano, the locality of the type specimens and 
the only ones seen by me. 
4. M. rerracta A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. lvi. 69 (1913). — The re- 
fracted pedicels and short corollas give this plant an aspect very 
different from M. pratensis, its nearest relative. In fact, its salient 
characteristic suggests Myosotis refracta Boiss., a species equally 
unique in its genus. Known to me only from the original collection 
from Blue Park, Colorado. 
5. M. pratensis Heller, Bull. Torr. Club xxvi. 550 (1899). a 
amplifolia Wooton & Standley, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. xvi. 165 
(1913). M. alba Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club xxxi. 638 sere is a white- 
flowered form and may be known as forma alba (Rydb.), comb. nov. 
— Western Colorado and adjacent Utah, New Mexico; probably 
zona. — Cotorapo: Bob Creek, West La Plata Mts., and Mt. 
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cient 11, 1912, Ernest P. Walker, no. 256. New Mexico: Santa 
Fe Canon, June 2, 1897, A. A. & E. Gertrude Heller, no. 3641; 
Santa Fe Creek, 1847, Fendler, no. 626. 
5a. var. borealis, var. nov. ,fere glabescens; calycis lobis glabris 
M. paniculata Piper, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. xi. 478 (1906), not 
(Ait.) G. Don. — Ipano: divide between St. Joe and Clearwater 
rivers, July 9, 1895, Leiberg, no. 1217 (Typx, Gray Herb.; distri- 
buted as M. siberica). WasHinGTon: Mt. Carleton, July 16, 1902, 
Kreager, no. 190 (distributed as M. paniculata). 
Notwithstanding the remoteness of this plant from the range of 
the type, its affinities with M. pratensis are so evident that I am 
constrained to treat it as only a geographical variant of the south- 
ern plant, rather than as a distinct species among the allied species 
of the Northwest, to none of which it is so closely related. 
6. M. rranciscana Heller, Bull. Torr. Club xxvi. 549 Shae 
M. ia Wooton & Standley, Contrib. U.S. at + Be rb. xvl a 
