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This Mexican species is very closely related to F. elegans (Dene.) 
Schltr. as indicated by Gray, I. c., and Schlechter has followed 
Hemsley in regarding it as synonymous. It is true that one or two 
collections appear to be intermediate in character, as pointed out 
by Dr. Gray, but I am inclined to follow him in keeping up both 
species since they are on the whole easily recognized. F. bicolor is 
typically canescent with a dense pubescence and occurs much 
farther north and not so far south as F. elegans. 
FUNASTRUM CYNANCHOIDES (Dene.) Schltr., var. subtruncatum 
(Robinson & Fernald), comb. nov. Philibertia cynanchoides 
ene.) Gray, ee oe cata Robinson & Fernald, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxx. 119 (18 
Fun sca (Hook. & Arn.), comb. nov. Sarcostemma 
ylang Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 438 (1841). Philibert 
biloba (Hook & Arn.) Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxi. 395 (1886) 
Dr. Gray, |. ¢., pointed out the improbability of this species 
being the same as F’. cynanchoides; nevertheless Schlechter has 
followed Hemsley in reducing it to the latter. It is very doubtful 
if this disposition is correct but if it is Schlechter erred in not 
taking up Hooker and Arnott’s name since it has three years 
priority over that of Decaisne. Both Miss Vail and Schlechter 
include in the synonymy of F. cynanchoides, Gonolobus viridi- 
florus Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 219 (1828), not Nutt. In reality 
this is a name only and merely represents a misdetermination on 
the part of Torrey. Just why it should be unearthed is not clear 
unless for the purpose of adding to a synonymy already over- 
burdened. 
GILIA VIRGATA AND ALLIES. My attention has been called to 
this group because of some excellent specimens collected by Mrs. 
Mary F. Spencer in the vicinity of San Diego where this section 
(Hugelia) of the genus Gilia culminates in a number of variable 
and perplexing forms. The group has been studied critically and, 
indeed, with rare discrimination by Dr. Brand in his recent com- 
prehensive monograph of the Polemoniaceae, Das Pflanzenreich iv. 
250. 164-168 (1907), but there are errors in his treatment which 
should be corrected; and furthermore, his inclusion of Hugelia in 
Navarretia, thus greatly broadening the scope of that genus, so 
‘ characteristic and singular in aspect as interpreted by Ruiz and 
Pavon, Bentham, Greene, and others, is a move, the wisdom of 
