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cation of names and he now accepts Nelson’s species ‘as Adenos- 
tegia bicolor (A. Nels.) Rydb. FI. Rocky Mts. & Adj. Plains, 797 
(1917)! 
CorpYLaNtTHus Kineit Wats. This species, credited only to : 
Utah and adjacent Nevada by Mrs. Ferris, 1. c. 417, was collected : 
in southwestern Colorado in 1875 by Brandegee. Payson’ $s num- 
ber 160 from Naturita, distributed as C. ramosus, rather belongs 
here. 
Cordylanthus Helleri (Ferris), eran nov. Adenostegia Helleri 
Ferris, Bull. Torr. Club, xlv. 417 (1918). 
This coarse, very glandular-villous plant with shortly lobed 
bracts i is certainly very distinct from C. Kingit which is also of 
- different range. 
Cordylanthus palmatus (Ferris), comb. nov. Adenostegia pal- 
mata Ferris, Bull. Torr. Club, xlv. 420 (1918). 
A specimen of this species in the Gray Herbarium collected by 
Parry in 1881 at Stockton, San Joaquin County, gives a new local- - 
ity for the plant heretofore known only from the type collection 
at Tule, Colusa County. 
ERIOPHYLLUM CONFERTIFLORUM (DC.) Gray AND ITS ALLIES. 
There is a striking contrast between the treatment by Hall, Univ. 
Cal. Publ. Bot. iii. 184-186 (1907), of this group of Californian 
plants and that by Rydberg, N. A. Fl. xxxiv. 94-96 (1915). The 
former author, who evidently knows the plants i in the field, recog- 
nizes three species and four varieties. This is no increase over- 
notes the number of species admitted by Gray in the Synoptical Flora. 
_..... Rydberg, on the other hand, defines no fewer than twelve species. 
It is my impression that this author has never collected in Cali- 
fornia; and the key-characters which he has worked out from 
herbarium material and by means of which he attempts to dis- 
_ tinguish the plants to which he has assigned names are the sort of 
characters that are highly variable and may be found in greater 
__ or less degree on a single specimen, a fact which should be evident, 
it seems to me, even from study restricted to the herbarium. 
only segregate species recognized by Rydberg which I should at 
all hesitate to refer to one or the other of the long-established 
om e E. tanacetifolium Greene 
_ E. latilobum Rydb. TI “These ‘tants: are as yet known from com 
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