POLEMONIUM PARVIFOL1UM Nutt. mss.
P. 7leXiC0111181 Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 41. 1834. Not Cerv.
P. viscosum Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 280. Not Nutt.
I have also examined Nuttall's type of P. col lected by Wyeth, on the Flathead River. It differs from Gray's P. viscosum in no respect except that the calyx-lobes are a little longer. Nuttall himself has changed the name on the label to papr'ifo/izlzzz probably because he had found that the name P. Alexz cauum had been used before. That Gray had seen this specimen can be seen from a postal card from him, pasted on the same sheet, dated January 6, 188o, and on this, he states that he re garded it as being near P. var. pile/id/um, and adds: If I had to do it over, I would add a var. pan/Odium to it." As P.
Mexican/tin and P. par'ifolium are both based on the same speci mens it is strange to find that Dr. Gray in I886,* makes the fol lowing remark under P. follosissium To this probably belongs P. Alexicanum Nutt. Journ. Acad. Philad. 7 : 41, from the northern Rocky Mountains." It is evident that the Nuttallian specimens of P. illexicanum both in the Philadelphia and the Torrey herbaria belong to the same species as Gray's P. viscosum, which is a very near relative of P. pulclzcllum, at least as that species is under stood in America, differing mainly in the smaller flowers. Hod man, Spanish Basin, nos. 739 and 74o. 1896.