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parce — et pipes minusve viscidis; corolla albida 
circa 5 mm. longa. — OREGON: on serpentine slope, Siskiyou Mts., 
10 miles southwest of Waldo, Josephine Co., July 4, 1918, Morton 
E. Peck, 8415 (rypr, Gray Herb.). 
This plant does not appear to differ from the typical form of 
P. dasyphylla except by the appressed rather than spreading 
hispid pubescence and the pale corolla. Accordingly, notwith- 
standing the fact that heretofore the species has been known only 
from the Sierra Nevada of southern California I am disposed to 
‘treat this plant as only a variety of the typical and more southern 
form, especially in view of the analogous sort of variation which 
.the closely related P. heterophylla and P. magellanica both exhibit. 
The discovery in North America of this additional form with 
glabrous filaments (a salient character of the South American P. 
magellanica) substantiates it seems to me the treatment of this 
group in Contrib. Gray Herb. xlix. 31-38 (1917) in which P, ma- 
gellanica is excluded from North America for although it is true 
that the South American plant is characterized by glabrous fila- 
ments this character is generally (and always in the case of those 
variants corresponding in vegetative character to P. dasyphylla) 
correlated with very small corollas and scarcely exserted stamens. 
The very rare P. dasyphylla and its variety may be regarded 
indeed as intermediate between the South and the North American 
species but its existence can scarcely be used as an argument for 
the merging of these species so widely separated geographically 
since each on the whole is definitely distinct. P. magellanica and 
allies are characterized by constantly glabrous nearly included 
filaments and usually small flowers (or when these are larger the 
plants are very different in aspect from P. dasyphylla) and P. 
heterophylla and allies by very pubescent well-exserted filaments 
and relatively large flowers. 
ALLocARYA sTiprTaTa Greene. Pitt. i. 19 (1887). 
_ Mr. G. Claridge Druce, Bot. Exch. Club. v. 38 (1918) has re- 
duced the genus Allocarya to Lappula. It is to be regretted that 
he has not given the reasons which induced him to make this, to 
Say the least, striking reduction, for the genera Allocarya and 
ppula are even more distinct than Eritrichium and Lappula, 
genera universally accepted. It seems almost inconceivable that 
Mr. Druce had a specimen of Allocarya before him at the time 
