Macbride — Notes on the Hydrophyllaceae 23 
III. NOTES ON THE HYDROPHYLLACEAE AND A FEW 
OTHER NORTH AMERICAN SPERMATOPHYTES 
a. HyYDROPHYLLACEAE 
HyprRopHyLLuM FEnpLERI (Gray) Heller, var. albifron 
op comb. nov. 4H. albifrons Heller, Bull. Torr. Club xxv. 
267 (1898). 
Brand, Pflanzenreich iv. 251. 33 (1913), retains H. albifrons, 
evidently unaware that H. occidentale Gray, var. Fendleri Gray, 
which he treats as a variety of H. albifrons Heller, was raised to 
the rank of species in Plant World i. 23 (1897), a year before the 
publication of the latter name. Brand’s disposition of the plants 
represented by the above names may well be followed so it becomes 
necessary to make the new combination indicated. The variety, 
then, represents the more western state of the species which has 
the pedicels generally longer than the sepals. H. capitatum Dougl. 
has an analogous variation in the variety alpinum Wats. 
PHACELIA LAXA Small, Bull. Torr. Club xxv. 141 (1898). This 
species has an exact synonym in P. prostrata Brand, Pflanzen- 
reich iv. 251. 68 (1913). Brand failed to include P. laxa in his 
revision, |. c., of Phacelia. 
PHACELIA MADRENSIS Greenm. Proc. Am. Acad. xxxix. 85 (1903). 
P. rupicola Robinson & Fernald, var. madrensis (Greenm.) Brand, 
PRnhecceueh | iv. 251. 67 (1913). 
Brand, 1. c., observes ‘‘ Planta teste auctore perennis. Stylum 
non inveni divisum ‘ nearly to the base,’ sed paulo infra medium 
partitum.” The type preserved in the Gray Herbarium shows that 
the plant is undoubtedly perennial and the style zs divided “ nearly 
to the base ”’ so this latter character must vary in different indi- 
viduals. Further collections are needed before it will be possible ~ 
to pass on the constancy of the characters upon which Greenman, 
l.c., founded his species. Brand describes P. rupicola as 
-“ Annua (?).”’ It is clearly, as first described, a OER 
Phacelia minor (Harvey), comb. nov. Whitla minor 
Harvey, Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 312 (1846). Phacelia ""Whitlavia 
Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 322 (1875), in part. P. Whitlavia Gray, 
forma minor (Harvey) Brand, Pflanzenreich iv. 251. 71 (1913). 
