40 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
species, P. sericea, P. lenta, and P. saxicola, and these are all mem- 
bers of the section Hutoca. P. saxicola Gray is the only one of these 
species that approaches at all closely P. marcescens and it may be 
distinguished at once by its included stamens and minute corolla. 
Miss Eastwood, when studying at the Gray Herbarium, wrote on 
the sheet of the type “‘ P. marcescens, n. sp.” She has kindly given 
me permission to publish it for her. ; 
PHACELIA VERNA Howell, Eryth. iii. 35 (1895). Brand reduces 
this species to P. Pringlei Gray. He observes, that it is a ‘‘ forma 
placentis pluriovulatis.’”’ However, this is not the only difference; 
the merely hirsutulous calyx-lobes of P. Pringlei are only slightly 
longer than the globose capsule. In P. verna they are hispid- 
ciliate and much longer than the oblong-ovoid capsule. The 
latter species is not uncommon in southwestern Oregon where it 
apparently entirely replaces P. Pringlei of northern California. 
The species are closely related, it is true, but until intergrades are 
found they may be considered specifically distinct. 
PHACELIA MINUTISsIMA Henderson, Bull. Torr. Club xxvii. 351 
(1900). To the synonomy of this species must be added P. folio- 
sepala Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. lv. 377 (1913). The really diag- 
nostic character of this plant is the very short style, scarcely 1 mm. 
long. The species is known now from two localities; Blaine Co., 
Idaho, and Elko Co., Nevada. 
Puacetta Ivestana Torr., var. glandulifera (Piper) Nels. & 
Maebr., in herb. P. glandulifera Piper, Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. 
xi. 472 (1906). P. Ivesiana Torr., f. glandulifera (Piper) Brand, 
Pflanzenreich iv. 251. 126 (1913). P. luteopurpurea A. Nels. Bot. 
Gaz. lii. 271 (1911). 
The variety — distinguished by the more glandular pubescence 
and the larger corolla — apparently replaces entirely in Washing- 
ton, Oregon, and Idaho the typical form. The latter ranges from 
Wyoming to California and in Utah meets and merges with the 
variety. Because of the general distinctness of the two variants, 
however, both seem to us worthy of recognition, but since they 
pass into each other where their ranges meet the later published 
form may become a variety of the state first recognized. 
_ Puaceia Bicotor Torr., var. Leibergii (Brand) Nels. & Macbr., 
inherb. P. Leibergii Brand, Pflanzenreich iv. 251. 128 (1918). 
